Hit the Road: Recall A Go For Wisconsin Republican Senator Hopper

Hit the Road: Recall A Go For Wisconsin Republican Sen Hopper

By: Sarah JonesMar. 29th, 2011more from Sarah Jones

The voice of the people in Wisconsin is making itself heard against Governor Scott Walker and the Republican senators, who pushed Walker’s anti-union bill through utilizing a variety of seemingly illegal tactics, in the recall campaign against Sen. Randy Hopper (R-Fond du Lac), which appears to have enough signatures to force a recall election.

You will recall Randy as the senator whose wife and maid said they would sign for his recall or perhaps for getting his girlfriend a state job paying $11,000.00 more annually than the previous person made doing the same job. Or maybe you’ll remember Randy as the guy who claimed death threats were keeping him from attending a parade with is wife, only to be outed as having filed for divorce months ago.

Tom Tolan reports for the Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel:

Scott Dillman, a former Department of Corrections employee who is one of the campaign’s coordinators, wouldn’t say directly Tuesday that volunteers had collected the 15,269 signatures required to force the election. But he said that volunteers were planning a last push for signatures on election day next Tuesday, and that he’s hoping that the total collected will be “closer to 30,000 than 15,000.”

Dillard said over the weekend that organizers plan a caravan to Madison when they collect the final signatures. Is that caravan planned for April 6, the day after the election?

That day is Dillman’s birthday, he said, and “I’m hoping to have a very good birthday.”

If the signatures are delivered that day to the state that day, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Board would have 31 days to review them. If it certifies them as adequate — and if there are no delays caused by challenges or other factors — an election could come as early as June. That would be a primary election, though, if either party fields more than one candidate.

I assume the organizers will be taking April 5 off to vote for Kloppenburg for supreme court, but will get right back to work for the final push. I’ve heard rumors that the Republicans’ recall efforts against the Democrats isn’t going as well, partly due to the fact that they brought in outsiders to coordinate the campaign, and of course, recalls need to be filed by people who live in the state. I’m sure the Koch brothers rectified that little glitch, but so far, the one thing they haven’t done in Wisconsin (sorry, Michigan) is take away voting rights.

Since Randy won a very narrow victory over his opponent in 2008, things aren’t looking good for him. If it wasn’t Walker’s anti-union bill, it was his failed family values and if it wasn’t that, it was his hypocrisy in getting his girlfriend hired by the state as he stole jobs away from his constituents.

Wisconsin state Senate Republicans sacrificed their careers on the altar of Governor Walker’s ambitions, but that’s to be expected as Republicans work within the autocratic system of serving their masters without question, taking orders from national think tanks and implementing policies and presenting legislation they don’t even understand sometimes, let alone believe in.

I’m sure the Koch brothers will reward Hopper with free toilet paper for life for his sacrifice, along with a cheesy job selling out the people at Persuasion Partners, the lobbying firm his girlfriend used to work for. So, basically there will be no difference between what Hopper is doing now and what he will be doing, but he won’t have that fancy title and, in a final act of irony, his girlfriend will be the only person sucking off the government as one of those lazy civil servants. Gosh, I sure hope she doesn’t get upset when she’s the breadwinner, I mean, she loves him, right?

Hey, Senator Hopper, this is what democracy looks like!

Hit the Road: Recall A Go For Wisconsin Republican Sen Hopper was written by Sarah Jones for PoliticusUSA.

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15 Responses to Hit the Road: Recall A Go For Wisconsin Republican Sen Hopper

AFM

Mar. 29th, 2011 at 2:50 pm

Let’s pray justice will prevail across this country. We all deserve better then what we are getting. I don’t mind sacrifices but it must be equal that includes the rich and corporations paying their fair share of taxes.
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- Jtl
  
  Mar. 29th, 2011 at 4:17 pm
  
  Wisconsin AG motion to withdraw denied! Just reported on a scroll…anyone heard any more ?
  
  The hooper thing is good but we need to get rid of prosser and walker!
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  - Shiva (Moderator)
    
    Mar. 29th, 2011 at 4:22 pm
    
    newsofthenorth.net/downlo...
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Hrafnkell Haraldsson

Mar. 29th, 2011 at 3:33 pm

One down (and it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy)…we’ll take care of the rest by the end of Election Day 2012.
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- Truthammer
  
  Mar. 30th, 2011 at 2:01 am
  
  It sure feels great doing this political spring cleaning of all the Koch servants !
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Anne

Mar. 29th, 2011 at 3:41 pm

I can’t wait to see the day when all of them have bitten the dust, especially Scott Walker.
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- majii
  
  Mar. 29th, 2011 at 3:54 pm
  
  Just the idea that enough of the voters in Hopper’s district have signed the petition to recall him should cause Walker to have many sleepless nights. While he was doing the work of the Koch Bros., he wasn’t thinking about the fact that, if they can vote in WI, they only have 2 votes!
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  - Anne
    
    Mar. 29th, 2011 at 4:05 pm
    
    I was watching the Ed Show (Ed Schultz) last night at
    10 p.m. on MSNBC, and there was a commentator saying the Koch brothers feel victimized by all the richly deserved contempt that their being exposed has brought their way. As if I care, when they espouse policies that bring so much misery to so many! I hope from this point to his inevitable recall that his rise to power brings him no joy or satisfaction. After all, he has earned every bit of hatred and contempt directed at him because of his heavy-handed and divisive tactics.
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Max in Miami

Mar. 29th, 2011 at 4:06 pm

if all these people signing these recall petitions had just bothered to vote last November this would not be taking place right now!
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- Jtl
  
  Mar. 29th, 2011 at 4:19 pm
  
  Spilt milk, max….We must move on what we have today!
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Shiva (Moderator)

Mar. 29th, 2011 at 4:57 pm

I have a feeling that the Koch brothers will just pretty much ignored him and let him go his own way. He is dead weight and has no career

And in more important news the last thing I would do is let Gov. Walker know where the caravan is going to take place. There is little doubt in my mind that he’ll find a reason to try to arrest them or possibly play dirty Harry and make them run through the gauntlet.

I hope the campaign for the rest of the signatures is going well
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Eykis

Mar. 29th, 2011 at 5:21 pm

Excellent news for the people of Wisconsin. Keep it up – we are all behind your recalls.

Thank you, Wisconsin, your efforts have made many of us get out in the streets in our own states to denounce the havoc being wreaked on the Middle Class Workers in America.
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Nefti

Mar. 29th, 2011 at 7:23 pm

I want to know how any MIDDLE CLASS CITIZEN today –I don’t care where you live–if you are working and are okay in your status but STILL SUPPORT THE REPUBLICANS AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO THESE INNOCENT HARD WORKING EVERY DAY AMERICAN CITIZENS–keeping in mind–they’re WHITE citizens too–not just minorities–although I don’t doubt repubs have convinced you otherwise with their lies. IF you think this is not going to impact on you and your children??? THINK AGAIN!!!! YOU BETTER WAKE UP..They do not need you. They do not give a hoot if your children starve! Like Walker said..he plans to replace the mayor, teachers, officers, anyone in any kind of capacity so that they’re all YOUR DICTATORS. WHo will you call if you get raped..if he owns the police and decides your not worhty of being protected? Who? Who are you going to call when you have an emergency and you need an ambulance. And Walker says..don’t go there ..I don’t like those folks. Who?
All this things will be hand picked and YOU WILL LOSE YOUR JOBand chosen by your Walker wannabeHitler GOVNR. Do you not see what they are doing and what YOU ARE HELPING THEM ACHIEVE????? YOU TOO WILL END UP WITH NOTHING! Don’t even think you won’t. Go on ..keep supporting these
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Connie C

Mar. 29th, 2011 at 9:37 pm

I LOVE you, Wisconsin… Get ‘er done!

Signed,
Iowa
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Fi

Mar. 30th, 2011 at 6:56 am

Go for it Wisconsin
Lots of love and best wishes, all the way from Scotland.
Fi xx
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