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Wisconsin Recall

The power of the pocket book and outside organizations influence on local elections. Who said all elections are local? Not anymore.

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National and state liberal groups, led primarily by public employee labor unions, have pumped well in excess of $14,000,000 into the Wisconsin state senate recall elections.

MacIver News’ staff complied this graphic of this unprecedented spending using official reports on file with the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (Totals are accurate as of 8/8/11).

These figures include direct contributions from political action committee to candidates, coordinated independent expenditure campaigns, and individual third party expenditures. The overall effort, however, is likely much larger. Member-to-member communications and issue advocacy totals are not required to be reported to the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board and are therefore not included in this total.

See this chart: (to big to post)

http://maciverinstitute.com/wp-conte...oneyMatrix.jpg

Wisconsin GOP's stand could reverberate elsewhere
By SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press – 3 hours ago
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A stand by Wisconsin Republicans against a massive effort to oust them from power could reverberate across the country as the battle over union rights and the conservative revolution heads toward the 2012 presidential race.
Democrats succeeded in taking two Wisconsin state Senate seats away from Republican incumbents on Tuesday but fell one short of what they needed to seize majority control of the chamber.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...7aec9b3f8c5921

Both sides are going to call this a win - politically anyway.

No one can call it a win if they don't control the vote in the state house. So far it is Republickins +1, we will see after the remaining 2 recall elections of the Dems who bailed on the state and ran away to IL rather than live up to their obligation to the people and vote.

Both sides are going to call this a win

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Originally Posted by classicman (Post 749539)

Both sides are going to call this a win

Oh Snap!:rolleyes: