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Title: Both sides targeting state senators for recall elections (Wisconsin)
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinal
URL Source: http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/116545518.html
Published: Feb 20, 2011
Author: Daniel Bice
Post Date: 2011-02-20 21:28:55 by go65
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Comments: 1
It's been said that state Democrats and labor unions are trying to reverse the results of the November 2010 elections. Actually, it's the outcome of a handful of 2008 races that political liberals and conservatives are now working to undo. Several sources confirmed that Wisconsin Democrats and labor leaders are plotting recall elections for several Republican senators as soon as lawmakers push through Gov. Scott Walker's budget plan to curb collective bargaining rights and require public employees to chip in part of their salary toward their health care and pension costs. "Those are options people are looking at," said Marty Beil, director of the largest state employees union. Even more emphatic was Rich Abelson, executive director of AFSCME Council 48, which represents county and city employees in the Milwaukee area. "This is not a Plan B," Abelson said Friday night. "This is going forward irrespective of how the vote turns out. Oh, yeah, we are going to make a full-court press." On the other hand, the Citizens for Responsible Government Network has announced that it is advising groups interested in ousting two Senate Democrats who joined their colleagues in fleeing Wisconsin to prevent a vote on Walker's proposed budget repair plan.
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#1. To: go65 (#0)
Sore losers. If liberals weren't such fookin pathetic morons they wouldn't be on the outside looking in.
Several sources confirmed that Wisconsin Democrats and labor leaders are plotting recall elections for several Republican senators
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