Summer of Recalls Heats Up The temperature keeps rising in Wisconsin, and I am not talking about the record heat

wave that we have endured during the month of July. The Senate recall elections are in full swing, and we are seeing the frustration from the left as we continue to listen to the Republicans attempt to defend the vast amount of radical legislation that they have been pushing through since January. On Tuesday, 7/19, the first general election was held in the first recall election of the year. Senator Dave Hansen (D) was forced to defend his Senate seat against David Vanderleest (R). Hansen won handily with a 2 to 1 margin. This was the seventh win for the people of Wisconsin, with all 6 real Democrats winning against the fake Democrats in the Democratic primary, one week earlier. The large protests at the Capitol have subsided. People have traded in their protest signs for clipboards to gather signatures. However, smaller protests have been popping up nearly every time the Governors (taxpayer owned) SUV pulls into a parking lot. On Monday, 7/18, Scott Walker attended the opening of a new welcome center in Beloit. With news media attending, along with Senator Tim Cullen (D), Walker was once again met with far more opposition than support. See the link here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbtHvHIymFQ With far more protestors than supporters, Walkers speech was hard to hear over the chants of Recall Walker, Resign, and nah nah nah nah.nah nah nah nah.shame shame shamegoodbye. Walker has mastered the art of ignoring the Anti-Walker movement. However, this is nothing new. He proved that he has little trouble ignoring our voices in February when he refused to listen to his employers (the voters of Wisconsin) by ramming through his union busting, deficit exploding, Budget Repair Bill. The word repair is in quotations as this budget does nothing to balance or repair the budget. Walkers budget removes nearly $1 billion from our states economy. That is not $1 billion in government spending, that is the amount of money that normal, tax paying citizens, have had robbed from our pockets as a result of Walker giving large tax breaks to corporations. Fortunately for Wisconsin, and the people around the world who are watching us, the polls are showing that Wisconsinites are well aware of what Walker, the Fitzgerald brothers, and the rubber stamp legislature are trying to accomplish. New polls are showing challenger Fred Clark (D) winning over incumbent Luther Olsen (R). Among all voters, Clark is up 45-43, but among likely recall voters, Clark is up 5044. This is a swing from May when it showed Clark losing to Senator Olsen. Olsens ratings have stagnated recent polls. In other elections, Sandy Pasch (D) is up by 1% over incumbent Alberta Darling (R). Pasch and Darling faced off on Sunday morning in a televised debate on WISN 12. The frustration coming from Pasch was visible as she was listening to Darling defend her votes for the Republicans redistricting plan and her vote to end collective bargaining rights for public employees. Darling used her best right wing talking points to defend her position on public unions. It was during the debate on Walkers redistricting plan where Darling may have said something she should not have revealed. Pasch was asked about the probability of keeping the Senate seat in 2012, should she win in August of 2011. She spoke of the Republicans pushing through a new map that is widely partisan toward

creating republican districts, creating only 40 solid Democratic Seats. All others are either solid Republican, or creating margins so biased that only a Democratic deluge could unseat the Conservatives. Pasch claimed that the redistricting will disenfranchise minority groups. When Darling was questioned, she said she had nothing to do with redistricting and that the map will go to the courts because it disenfranchises minorities. Darling absolutely had something to do with the passage of this map. As a state Senator, she could have come to the floor of the Senate and debated her own party to create a less divided map. She could have shown that she can be bipartisan by voting against it with the Democrats. She could have even helped draw another map that shows a more equal division of the electorate. She did none of these. She voted for the map, and is now bucking any and all responsibility. It was her comment that the court will decide the maps fate, which really showed how spineless she is. The state legislature has a duty to debate, refine, and vote on legislation in a democratic manner. It is their job to know that they are voting down the center of the constitution and that they are not disenfranchising voters or using their power for political gain. For her to say that the new map will go to the courts because it disenfranchises Wisconsin voters, shows that she knows that the map does everything that the Democrats claim it will, and that she does not possess the type of leadership needed to go against her party and vote for the people of Wisconsin. Republicans claim to be fiscally conservative, but they are willing to waste taxpayer money on a court case that could easily be avoided by simply representing the people that elected them. On with the recallsOn Wisconsin.Forward! We must remove these people from office, not just for ourselves, but for the better of the world. We need to stand up against the tidal wave of Big Government Republicans RIGHT NOW! The GOP projects their own shortcomings onto the Democratic Party, and they are proving it right now. The proved that they are not fiscally responsible under Ronald Reagan when they tripled the deficit, exploding it to nearly $3 trillion for the first time in US history. Actually, the deficit had never even gone over $1 trillion, but Reagan borrowed more money than every president from George Washington to Jimmy Carter COMBINED! It continued under H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton balanced the budget (a Democrat, mind you), then G. W. Bush borrowed more money than all presidents from George Washington to Bill Clinton COMBINED! Republicans also run elections on small government. Telling homosexuals that they can not get married is not small government. Limiting a womens right to choose, is not small government. Removing our rights to collectively bargain and organize in the workplace is not small government. Finally, breaking up Wisconsins voting districts into something that will almost certainly guarantee Republican control until 2022, is not small government. Wisconsin, we have a duty to the rest of the country, and even the world, to stand up to these people and show them exactly what People Power looks like. If you are in a recall district, be sure to get out there and vote to end the Fitzwalkerstan reign in Wisconsin.