WISCONSINREPORT.COM (11/28/2011) - While Republican Governor Scott Walker and his supporters have already begun their campaign against Recalling Walker on television and other advertising media, supporters of the Recall Walker effort are actively gathering signatures on petitions to force a vote on the issue. United Wisconsin has posted 10 reasons to Recall Walker on the organization website.

United Wisconsin is a grassroots coalition of more than 200,000 Wisconsinites and organizations who have united to recall Governor Scott Walker. Here are the 10 Reasons to Recall Scott Walker, as posted on the website at UnitedWisconsin.com:

1. - "Walker was elected on a promise to create 250,000 private sector jobs in Wisconsin. After seeing the impacts of his disastrous policies, his administration has acknowledged that Walker won’t get anywhere close to fulfilling his campaign promise."

2. - "Walker’s budget cut over $800 million from our public schools, while at the same time placing caps on the amount of money school districts in Wisconsin can collect in property taxes to fund their schools."

3. - "Walker cut over $500 million from the BadgerCare program. More than 200,000 Wisconsinites could face premium increases, and over 50,000 people may be cut from their state insurance plan completely as a result of this cut."

4. - "While he was slashing funding for public schools and health care, Walker gave giant tax breaks to corporations, which added roughly $117 million to Wisconsin’s budget deficit."

5. - "In October, Wisconsin led the nation with 9,700 job losses, 9,300 of which were in the private sector. This happened after Walker held his “jobs session” with the legislature, during which no jobs bills were even taken up."

The 10 Reasons to Recall Governor Scott Walker, as posted on the UnitedWisconsin.com website include the following as the last half of the 10 Reasons:

6. - "Walker stripped most public employees of their right to collectively bargain. Walker’s union-busting bill means that teachers, nurses, prison guards, and other public employees in Wisconsin no longer have a say in their benefits and working conditions"

7. - "Walker signed a Voter ID bill that will make it harder to vote for thousands of eligible voters in Wisconsin. The people most affected by the restrictions in the bill include students, the elderly, the poor, and the disabled."

8. - "While refusing to meet with Democratic lawmakers to negotiate a compromise on his union-busting bill, Walker spent 20 minutes on the phone with who he thought was out-of-state billionaire David Koch. During the call, Walker bragged about the baseball bat in his office and admitted that he considered planting troublemakers in the crowd at the protests."

9. - "Wisconsin was supposed to receive federal funds to build a high-speed rail line from Milwaukee to Madison. Instead, Walker refused the money, which would not have added anything to the state budget, and the funds went to other states."

10. - "After hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites came to Madison to tell Scott Walker not to balance the budget on the backs of working families, he put the State Capitol on lock down, preventing thousands of protesters from entering the building."

Petition signers are also being asked by the Recall Walker effort to sign a separate petition to Recall Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch (R), who has supported Governor Walker's actions during the first 11 months of occupying the Governor's office.

More than 540,000 approved signatures must be turned into the Government Accountability Board (GAB) in Madison in order to have a state-wide vote on Recalling Walker. A like number of signatures on the Recall Lt. Governor Kleefisch petition are necessary to include Kleefisch on the Recall Ballot.

United Wisconsin expects to make an announcement soon about the progress of the signature gathering.


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