Good! As a taxpayer I believe the recall is an investment in democracy that will also save our state a lot more money later. I'd much rather pay for this than to give a Walker crony a tax cut.

Getting rid of Scott Walker is priceless. 20 million would be cheap.

Atleast this $ will not be given to the 1%. It is actually being spent on the 99%.
If Walker was upfront with Wisconsin during his campaign the state would be saving this money.

Just another way for Dems to waste money that doesn't belong to them.

No amount of taxpayer money is too much to spend in order to satiate the rage of sore losers. They must have their way.

Whatever the cost, it's worth it to return to Wisconsin's Tradition that values education over profiteering and honest and open government over cheating, lying and weaseling of the Walker administration!

Here's a little message from Princeton University about the kind of "debate" you on the right here engage in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gXIfg4FujHA#!

Before proposing changes to citizens' rights to recall elected state officials under the Wisconsin Constitution, one should bother to become familiar with the origins and purpose of this Constitutional provision.

Excellent overviews of these topics by Marquette University of Law faculty are:

"The Original Intent of the Recall Power" at http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2011/11/13/the-original-intent-of-the-recall-power/

"The Constitutional Right of Recall" at
http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2011/11/13/the-original-intent-of-the-recall-power/

"Charters, Compacts, and Tea Parties: The Decline and Resurrection of a Delegation View of the Constitution", at http://lawreview.law.wfu.edu/files/2011/01/w05_Fallone.pdf

"The key to understanding the proper scope of the recall power is the basic conception of 'the sovereignty of the people.'"
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"conceptions of limited government in America rest on the idea that the people are the ultimate sovereign and that government only possesses the power that are delegated to it by the people."
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"Central to this idea of delegated authority is the principle that elected representatives must act in accord with the wishes of the public, and that the failure to do so is in and of itself sufficient grounds for that representative to be recalled before the end of their term in office."

Celeste Koeberl, These look like scholarly reviews providing additional information to encourage honest debate. What are you thinking?

If Unions are spending all this money to recall Walker, Why are Walker ads dominating the air waves in Wisconsin? Dah! How do you spell Koch?
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/136108188.html

The origin of the WI right to recall shows it's being used exactly as intended ("The Original Intent of the Recall Power", above):

"Supporters of the recall power argued that its foundation lay in the sovereign power of the people. They assumed that the role of the elected official was the role of a delegate, whose duty was to give effect to the opinion of his district and not to exercise his own judgment. Far from being radical, supporters thought that the recall was necessary in order to 'restore popular government to the people by destroying the control of private influences over legislative bodies' . . . Political history in our country has always recognized the primacy of the sovereign people, but what had changed in the opinion of the Progressives was the growth of corporations and special interests that had captured the legislature.

Opponents of the Recall Movement resisted state constitutional amendments on the grounds that the recall power would lead to political instability. They charged that constant recall elections would lead to a form of 'perpetual warfare' between political parties. They also charged that recall supporters were socialists who were engaged in class warfare against the educated, property-holding portion of the population. . . In Wisconsin, as well as in many other states, the voters rejected these arguments in opposition to the recall power and proceeded to make the right of recall a part of the fundamental law of the state."

cost of recall, 9-20 million, getting rid of a very corrupt governor, PRICELESS!
if you can't see past the lies in this governors adds you must be blind or ignorant.
where are the 250,000 jobs?

before he became governor, the state had a deficit. but, did we all feel it? no! are we now irrepairably divided? yes! a state divided will not stand! he needs to go now!

Good grief, for all the the hand wringing and wailing from the left, you would think we were on the Costa Concordia.

1,ooo,ooo signatures say that there are a lot of of that want this governor gone asap!
that's not whinning, that's activism!

More than a Million voted for Walker- so what is your point?
The 1 million is a ficticuous number- the real number has not been released yet. But let's assume for a minute it IS a million. How many are REAL? How many will vote? I know those in support will be there at the polls. Hopefully Walker prevails and can cut cut cut some more to offset this waste of OUR money.

if walker and his corperate backers would have used the money that he's using for re election to pay off the defificit, there wouldn't be a recall! but that wouldn't forward his real agenda would it!

if your so worried about our tax money, why aren't you upset that walker is suing the gab to use state money for the signature verification instead of his own? he caused this mess!

sorry boob, but no such waist where i work. we are effecient and the job is already well done! mainstreets and backstreets cleaned curb to curb! if your town operates differently, that's not my fault. try to insult someone else.

boob, roads looked like crap everywhere today. why don't you come back through now?
sorry your so miserable bob, but your always going to be an ahole, you just can't help yourself!

so bob, what highway were you traveling? just curious.

wow bob! now i know your just grasping at straws! you can't even say what the side roads were! good try bob. better luck next time! get a more detailed map next time!
so who was the guy you were calling on?

you won't say because your full of crap bob. just another right wing bs er.
so, what do you o for a living bob? or must you remain secretive about that too?

you confirmed nothing bob. except the fact that your full of it! you can't even tell what road you were on, guess you must have been lost! i do enjoy getting under your skin though! it isn't very proffessional of a highly educated man such as yourself to let a working joe like me make you lose your cool . btw, are you still disbarred?

including you paul

Governor Walker, on the Rush Limbaugh Show yesterday:

RUSH: Signatures are due today; is that right?

WALKER: That's right.

RUSH: How does this recall process work?

WALKER: Yeah, it is bizarre. They need to get at least a number equivalent to a quarter of all the votes cast for governor in 2010. So that's just over 540,000. They'll probably turn in close to 700,000 today. But, remember, that's equivalent, meaning in our state you don't actually have to be a voter to sign it, all you have to be is eligible to vote, which means 18, not a felon, and lived in the state for at least 28 days. So you can imagine all the shenanigans there.

RUSH: Yeah.

WALKER: But from what they say they're probably gonna turn in 720,000 today.
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The Republicans managed, with their majorities in the State House, to ram through the most regressive Voter Suppression Bill in the country last Summer, eliminating a high percentage of African Americans, Hispanics, students, and the elderly, et al, from their ability to vote.

Milwaukee JournalSentinel (Jan. 17):

Madison -- With recall petitions to be filed against Gov. Scott Walker Tuesday, aides said the governor would not be available for an interview because of a busy schedule.

Walker is scheduled to hold a fundraiser in New York City in the afternoon hosted by Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the founder of financial services corporation American International Group, according to a copy of the fund-raising solicitation posted on the website of the New York Daily News.

A Walker campaign spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment.

Greenberg and AIG have drawn fire for losses at the company contributing to the financial crisis and resulting recession of recent years.
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Remember when teachers, city, county, state and federal employees crashed the stock market, or when public employees wiped out half of everybody’s 401Ks, took trillions in TARP money, spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico, gave themselves billions in bonuses, moved most of the good paying private jobs overseas and paid no taxes?
Me neither.

MADISON, WISCONSIN—Wisconsin’s embattled Governor, Scott Walker, vowed Tuesday night not to let the successful recall drive against him hinder his fight to “bring this great State of ours to the edge of fiscal and economic ruin.”
“Our reforms have managed to consistently place Wisconsin in the bottom of national statistics for new job creation and economic development,” Walker stated. “This is not the time to deviate from that course, now that our goal of total financial ruin is so close.”

Walker pointed to a number of policies enacted since he took office that he claims helped get Wisconsin to its current state of economic collapse, including refusing millions of dollars from the federal government for high speed rail, slashing education and local government budgets, and denying thousands access to health insurance.

“But there’s a lot left to do,” Walker added. “We still have critical state-level issues we need to address, like outlawing contraception, building even more puppy mills, and instituting the second prong of my conceal-and-carry legislation, the 'shoot-to-kill' exception for The Gays, before we can declare victory in the battle against the middle class.”

Federal law requires that states seeking a waiver to reduce or eliminate access to public health care certify that they have, or project to have, a budget deficit. In seeking a waiver that would restrict or eliminate health care for thousands of Wisconsin families, Scott Walker’s administration certified in a December 29, 2011 letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that, “Wisconsin would have a budget deficit, based on generally accepted accounting principles, during state fiscal years 2012 and 2013…”

The admission by Walker’s administration that Wisconsin carries a budget deficit contradicts Scott Walker’s perpetual campaign lie that his “reforms” are working for Wisconsin, and that he has eliminated “a $3.6 billion budget deficit without raising taxes.”

I'm not naming names here, but the personal attacks must cease. Debate the issues, of course, but we're done getting personal just because opinions differ.