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2/2/12 This month begins the election season for WI. 4 elections are already scheduled to take place this year with the first one this month. The Spring Primary election for local offices such as County Board, City Council and School Board will be held February 21. The Spring General Election to elect these offices along with the Presidential Primary will be held April 3. The Partisan Primary election for state wide offices will be held August 14. The General Election will be held November 6. The Recall Elections for Governor, Lt Governor, and the 4 State Senators will be scheduled at such time as the Govt Accountability Board certifies the recall signatures and schedules those elections. This could include Primary Recall Elections, if there is more than one candidate in each party running for the particular office. WI will literally be in election mode until the General Election Nov 6, 2012. Mark your calendar and be prepared to vote this year.
1/31/12 The next scheduled floor session is to be February 14.
1/18/12 Gov Walker issued the following press release today at 4:45 pm. Madison - Today Governor Walker announced he will not pursue the implementation of a health insurance exchange and has turned down Early Innovator Grant funding from the federal government. The Governor also will repeal the executive order that created the Office of Free Market Health Care. "I have directed the Department of Health Services to notify the federal government that we will discontinue any development on a health exchange and that Wisconsin will turn down funding from the Early Innovator Grant program," said Governor Walker. "Stopping the encroachment of ObamaCare in our state, which has the potential to have a devastating impact on Wisconsin's economy, is a top priority. Wisconsin has been a leader and innovator in health care reform for two decades, and we have achieved a high level of health insurance coverage without federal mandates. When job creators and Wisconsin families are facing difficult times it doesn't make sense to commit to a federal health care mandate that will result in hidden taxes for Wisconsin families, increased health care costs and insurance premiums, and more uncertainty in the private sector." #
Governor Walker will sign Executive Order 57 into law, which repeals the executive order that established the Office of Free Market Health Care. This was the right thing for him to do! Send him a thank you!
1/18/12 Recall petitioners turned in their collected signatures yesterday to the Government Accountability Board (GAB) in Madison. The campaigns claimed to have collected more than 1 million signatures to recall Gov Walker and more than 845,000 to recall Lt Gov Kleefisch. This was confirmed by Kevin Kennedy GAB's director. The committee to recall Sen Terry Moulton of Chippewa Falls took in more than 21,000 and the same number for Sen Van Wanggaard of Racine and Pam Galloway of Wausau. The leader of the recall effort for Sen Scott Figzgerald of Juneau announced they had collected 20, 600 signatures or 123% of the 16,742 required to recall him. Now the long process begins to verify and certify all these signatures. The GAB has an initial 31 day time period to review the signatures and have already said they will ask for another 30 days or possibly longer time extension. This means elections will be some time in coming to the public.
1/11/12 Obama eligibility challenges to move forward in Georgia
12/17/11 The campaign cash is rolling in for the recalls.
12/13/11 The ACLU has filed a complaint in US Eastern District Ct claiming WI ACT 23 "photo ID" deprives people of their fundamental right to vote. The complaint seeks declaratory and injunctive relief against the state for requiring photo ID to vote, and declaratory judgment that the photo ID law is unconstitutional as applied to certain classes of eligible WI voters.
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