Walker Backers Mount Effort To Write In Governor's Name in Democratic Recall Primary

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In the “Wild West” political territory that is the Wisconsin recall elections, it seems anything goes.

Therefore, it should probably come as no surprise that some supporters of Gov. Scott Walker have come up with a new plan to thwart efforts to unseat the Republican governor.

Utilizing word-of-mouth and social media, these Walker supporters are encouraging voters across the state to write in the governor as a candidate in the Democratic primary — if the recall election moves forward.

It started as a conversation on Facebook, but less than a week ago the page Operation: Write in Scott Walker in Democrat Primary popped up on the social media goliath, giving the movement an established spot on the web.

http://menomoneefalls.patch.com/articles/scott-walker-backers-seek-to-write-in-governor-s-name-in-democratic-recall-primarycrat-primary

[charmay]

1. They're getting more and more desparate.

[gopiscrap]

2. Hopefully Walker will be in jail come election day!!!!!

[midnight]

10. This would certainly save the tax payer some money..

[Justice wanted]

3. I can't imagine ANYONE supporting him in Wis.

[hayrow1]

4. Being in Wisconsin, I can assure you there are plenty of "cultural conservatives" that would follow

the Koch puppet off a cliff, including most of my almost 100 in-laws. There is plenty of hate in that crowd for non-whites, liberals, and anyone else that has post-renaissance type thoughts.

[midnight]

5. Sympathies to you about the 100 in-laws that would

support walker...

[DCKit]

6. Does it count if they can't spell it right? nt

[Scuba]

7. Not only are there a significant number who would drink Jim Jones Kool-ade if Walker asked them to..

... there are a whole bunch more who dully march to the right-wing media drumbeat. The largest paper in the state, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, endorsed Walker and has not withdrawn that endorsement. The media continues to paint Walker's opposition as "self-centered cry-baby union thugs who want working people to take care of them" and mostly ignores all the wrongdoing happening in Walker's administration. The Green Bay Press Gazette and Wisconsin State Journal also toe the right-wing line, just as directed by their corporate masters.

Reporting on bills, like the mining monstrosity, are painted as only slightly flawed and obvious problems like despoiling drinking water are swept under the rug.

Wisconsin's hard core-right wingers vote with religious fervor. I don't see them rousing their drones, but there's always a risk.

On the other hand, the left will show up this time. We had 30,000 People volunteer to collect recall signatures, and found a million People ready to sign. If we run a strong candidate we will win.

[hayrow1]

8. Like almost everywhere else, the newspapers in Wisconsin consistently tow the line for the 1%,

and then wonder why they keep losing subscriptions and readership. With the pre-enlightenment mass getting all their news from a.m. radio and Fox, most Wisconsin newspapers have managed to alienate the only segment of the population that they could appeal to.

[mysuzuki2]

9. it's funny; I keep posting comments to their site and

they keep deleting them. I wonder why?

[mysuzuki2]

13. Ii seems I am blocked from posting to their facebook site.

I must have annoyed them.

[PeaceNikki]

11. I hope they do. It would blow up in their faces - he cannot be on ballot for 2 parties.

Word on the street is that they know this and Prosser will be their new write-in.


Fuck em

[dragonlady]

12. This would be in the primary

Walker would not be in a primary (unless the Republicans decide to run someone else for governor against him, and how likely is that?). Republicans would be free to mess around in our primary. It would be like a write-in campaign for a fake Democrat.

Prosser?!

[PeaceNikki]

14. I get it. the point is: if they write Walker in on our primary,

He couldn't go on our ticket in recall race because he's on Republican ticket. If they write in Prosser, he could.

[PeaceNikki]

16. More here:

http://www.wisdems.org/news/blog/view/2012-02-faqs-on-the-recall-petition-verification-process

Can Republicans thwart the recalls by running a write-in campaign for Walker during the Democratic Primary?

Any attempts to do this would be unsuccessful under Wisconsin's election laws, because a candidate may not appear on the ballot for as a candidate for both parties for the same office. The recall statute provides that an officeholder is automatically a candidate in the recall election unless the official resigns within 10 days after the original filing of the petition. Therefore, Walker is automatically the Republican candidate for Governor in the recall election because he did not resign within 10 days after the original filing of the petition. Even if a campaign to write-in Walker as the Democratic nominee was successful, the law says that if a candidate is already the nominee of one party for an office, and is also nominated by write-in votes at the primary election to the same office as the candidate of a different party, the candidate does not have a choice, but shall be placed on the ballot for the election under the office and party for which the individual was already a candidate.

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17. This is good to read... However, the Republicans do not always see the necessity to follow the law.

This State gets more and more interesting with every day that passes.

[feat12515si]

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