You'd think I'd learn. I really should stop making bets about elections having lost three out of three. Now I will just have to, once again, last longer than Schmengie in the BARGE No Limit tournament to undo the monetary effects on me of the Walker debacle ( Read more... )

Scott Walker, Governor of Wisconsin, has been officially recalled as of today. Unsurprisingly, the Election Board did not find that almost 50% of the more than 1,000,000 signatures on the recall petitions were invalid, leaving far more than that 540,000 or so needed to validate the recall election. The election will take place on June 5th ( Read more... )

Wisconsin Democrats to submit one million signatures to recall Scott Walker540,000 signatures were necessary to trigger the recall. 1,000,000 signatures represents 46.3% of the number of people who voted in the 2010 Wisconsin Governor's race. It represents almost 18% of the entire population of the state. It would be equivalent to gathering ( Read more... )

Yesterday, the people who failed miserably back in August in Wisconsin in their first recall attempts are, oddly enough, at it again. Only this time their target is not only control of the State Senate but the Governor, Scott Walker.

Today they announced the abject failure of that recall effort, a stunningly low 300,000+ signatures in twelve days ( Read more... )