Beginning last fall, Walker seized on a loophole in Wisconsin law that allows incumbents in recall elections to raise unlimited sums.
Wisconsin's constitution allows politicians to be subject to recall elections if enough signatures can be gathered within a set amount of time.
But depending on the momentum from the state Supreme Court election, recall elections, Assembly open seats, and legal fights, there could easily be enough support to recall Walker by then.
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In what might be a harbinger of things to come in the Wisconsin State Senate recall elections likely to take place in July, a Democrat has taken a Republican held seat in the special election to replace Republican Assembly members who have joined the Walker Administration.
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While Wisconsin Democrats are increasingly comfortable that they will hold on to those Democratic seats that are being challenged in the recall elections, there remains concern that a failure to pick up three seats in the Senate, the number needed to throw control to the Democrats, could have severe, negative implications for the state going forward.
And since I have criticized the GOP for staging phony primaries in the senate recalls, all for the purpose of delaying the actual recall elections to give their party more time to pass the Walker agenda, I would have to be just as critical of the Democrats playing this game as it would be equally wrong.
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However, these groups as well as the political parties lost importance as they experienced major defeats during the 2004 recall referendum, parliamentary elections in 2005 (where the political parties' abstention determined the virtual elimination of a real opposition in parliament) and the Presidential elections in 2006.
It informed the user if the registered voter had signed the recall referendum against Chavez, abstained from voting in elections, participated in the government's popular programs or signed a counter-petition for a recall referendum against opposition legislators.
But Conservatives with long memories recall that Margaret Thatcher, who won three successive elections, was unpopular with many activists in the late seventies.
It helps to recall the Tories' pledge during the Welsh assembly elections to "continue to make the case for devolving power over energy projects up to 100 MW" - that is to allow Welsh Ministers to decide bigger power projects.
Were the Democrats to anticipate a fake primary, and time the recall election for 10 weeks following certification rather than six, the GOP would, no doubt, stay away from such a primary, resulting in the recall election happening a month before the November general elections.
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But, in the absence of an elections, voters should be allowed to "recall" MPs who have behaved badly.
The other option would be to wait until after the GOP presidential primary and try to time the recall election to take place on November 6, 2012, the day of the national elections.
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We know from the years 2003-2004 that Chavez made every effort to disqualify the signatures required to oppose the recall referendum, that would have allowed revoking the president's mandate and calling for new elections.
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