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Scott Walker Wants To Waste Wisconsin’s Money On Himself

On Thursday, Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin filed a lawsuit to force the state to check the petitions filed for his recall. On Friday, he defended the lawsuit, citing a report he had allegedly seen in which some man claimed to have signed the petition 80 times. “If people want to sign it – and they have every right to in this state – it should be enforced that they can sign it once ad they actually have to sign it with a real name related to a real voting location in this state.” Well, it’s nice to know he believes people have a right to sign a petition to kick his sorry ass out of Madison.

As for the rest of it – well, the state already has a method of verifying signatures on the petitions. The part Walker doesn’t like is that the state requires the legal team of the recalled candidate to find any funky signatures to challenge. There is a certain level of verification that is done by the Government Accountability Board, but not a full-blown examination of every one of the over half-million signatures involved in this recall to “look for and eliminate duplicate signatures, clearly fake names and illegible addresses.” Poor baby, he wants to get the tax payers to foot the bill for this instead of getting his buddies the Koch brothers to hire people.

The thing about those taxpayers, well, if they were feeling all warm and fuzzy about Walker, they wouldn’t be setting speed records for collecting the signatures for his recall. He cut a billion dollars out the state budget and then gave a billion dollar tax break to the wealthy, thereby creating a net savings for the state of zip, zilch and nothing after being elected to balance their way-overdrawn budget.

 

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