At least one. That's not much but it's something. What Wisconsins have pulled off in the past couple of months is extraordinary and it's all been done well within the limits of civility.
Greg Sargent reported yesterday afternoon that "Dems are set to file the signatures they need for the recall election of their fourth Wisconsin GOP state senator this year: Sheila Harsdorf ..."
... Graham Zielinski, a spokesman for the Wisconsin Democratic Party, tells me Dems will submit over 23,000 signatures — nearly 150 percent of the 15,744 required.
Dems have already submitted the signatures required for recall elections against state senators Dan Kapanke, Randy Hopper, and Luther Olsen.
Here’s what this means. Presuming all four elections take place — which they all but certainly will, given the massive amounts of signatures gathered in all four cases — Dems will have matched the amount of recalls triggered in the state’s whole previous history in less than a year.
That’s as clear a demonstration as you could want of the grassroots energy unleashed by Scott Walker’s overreach, and of the organizing successes of his opponents.
Republicans have less than a week until the deadline for their signatures to trigger recall elections against Dems. They have not yet submitted any.
The fact that the Wisconsin Democratic Party has this in the bag. But if anyone can do it, they can. Never, in Wisconsin's history, have so many signatures been gathered in such a short period of time. It'll be interesting to see whether Wisconsin Republicans are anywhere near as successful.
