Wisconsin Recall, Part Two: Fleebaggers face the music
Tomorrow, Wisconsin voters head back to the polls for round two of the 2011 recalls.
Big Labor lost big last week in its botched bid to punish Republican state senators for supporting budget reform and failed to take control of the state legislature.
This time, two Democratic fleebaggers may be turned out for abandoning their offices and cowering across state lines while GOP legislators did the job the Leftists won’t do.
Reuters’ story gives the edge to the fleebaggers:
Two Democrats who opposed Walker’s anti-union bill and even fled the state for weeks in an unsuccessful effort to prevent a quorum and delay passage — Jim Holperin of Conover and Robert Wirch of Pleasant Prairie — will be defending their seats.
“As always in Wisconsin politics, one has to give the incumbent an edge,” said Mordecai Lee, governmental affairs professor at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
“It is likely the two Democratic incumbents will win their recalls — but it is not a slam dunk,” he said.
Holperin seems to be in the tighter race. His rival is Kim Simac, founder of the Northwoods Patriots, a Tea Party group.
Though Simac is a political novice, the district has leaned Republican in the three years since Holperin was elected.
After last week’s recall eletions, I heard from a Kenosha reader:
Dear Michelle,
I live in Kenosha, WI home of the fleebagger himself, Bob Wirch. I was watching the Recall elections tonight very closely. I honestly believe with a little more attention to these next two Recall elections, the two dems could be ousted. We have had daily visitors from union thugs knocking on our door and we are receiving mailings almost every day. The last woman who came to the door I asked her where she was from she replied the Wirch campaign I said, “No, where do you live?” She answered “A suburb of Chicago!” Unreal. Bob Wirch needs to go. I think it is disgusting he has over $600,000 to spend in KENOSHA!! That is insane.
Thank you for bringing attention to Wisconsin, Michelle!! Please keep it up, I would love to send a message to those Democrats who ran away! It is very difficult to get a read on how people will vote. There are lots of Wirch signs in yards, but there are more yards with no signs…. I hope the silent majority will come out in support of Scott Walker and against big labor unions!!
Thank you, Michelle!
Susie Paiser
Kenosha, WI
And one of our favorite Wisconsin commenters and bloggers Steve Egg added:”Before I went on vacation, I interviewed Kim Simac, and I honestly believe she will beat Jim Holperin. I haven’t caught up with Jonathan Steitz yet, though I hope to this week. I don’t have a good feel of that race yet.” He added on his blog last week: “The conventional wisdom (such as it is in this unprecedented season of recalls) is that Kim Simac is poised to beat Holperin, while Jonathan Steitz will fall short. That’s likely based on older assumptions, as the same set of polls that showed the Republican tightening in this past Tuesday’s elections showed the Steitz/Wirch race tightening. Moreover, the Republican Party of Wisconsin is actively organizing GOTV efforts in both districts.”
The Wisconsin Reporter noted last week that big congressional guns came out for Steitz and Wirch. Appropriately, fleebagger Wirch’s congressional advocate was from…Illinois: Democrat Rep. Jan Schakowsky.
Steitz sums up the telling difference between the two recall elections Fox6Now:
Day after day the 14 state senators stayed away, much to the frustration of Republicans across the state. After three weeks, Republicans found a way to pass the collective bargaining bill without Democrats by removing all the financial elements.
The Democrat senators returned as heroes of the protesters, but were despised by conservatives in their districts. That’s what led to the recall of three Democrats including Wirch. Steitz says, “He needs to be thrown out of office, because he abdicated his responsibility, his job, despite what he’ll say, is to be in Madison voting on bills. He should have been there arguing against the bill, voting against the bill. I disagree with you, but don’t run away.”
The Steitz for Senate page is here.
The Kim Simac for Senate page is here.
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On Wisconsin and dump these fleebaggers! Just Do It…make the nation proud…
Watching the fleebaggers get tossed and the Republican’s majority restored to it’s pre-recall levels would be great news.
I have faith in you WI voters to recall these slugs out! You have done it before, you can do it again. Good luck!
L
Communists must go down they must go down hard. Cut, Cap, balance baby. Sorry for the pain Mr. Democrat but that tumor has to come out.
Here’s hoping for an epic beat down.
I’d be in favor of “Anti-Fleebagging” laws.
In hockey, your team does without a player if one is put into the penalty box. An unexcused absence should be met with the loss of the vote for 30 days, or the remainder of the legislative session, or something.
The horror film Democrats don’t want you to see… “It Came From America: Voting Patriots On The Rampage“
That will fly if it only applies to Republicans.
put the fleabaggers on the unemployment line!!
I want the Tea Party candidates to win oh so badly. First to help the people of Wisconsin. Second to watch the contortionists in the White House try and spin how the Tea Party is unpopular after the result. Much fun.
Recall is the solution our enemy has chosen. Let them have as much of it as we choose !
Bring it Wisconsin ! Crush ‘em !
I get a Chris Matthews tingle up my leg whenever anyone invokes General Sherman.
Fleebaggers chickens have come home to roost.
Go Tea Party candidates!
If either of these Fleebaggers loses the silence from the MSM will be deafening. It will be an Igor “What hump?” moment.
The Tea Party will fade away when it becomes “the government”.
Glossing over the gut wrenching, agonizing and hour-by-hour protracted fleebagging circus w/ such casual tone is as disingenuous as it gets. Isn’t that normally how we’d describe a fishing trip, not a National spectacle?
Now if only we could find a way for Obama to go campaign for these two and give them his reverse midas touch…
Let’s hope Karma makes an appearance tomorrow..
I am not a Romney fan, but hey, give his campaign credit of this one:
Mitt Romney Dubs Obama’s Trip the ‘Magical Misery Bus Tour’
Nice shot!
I hope Wisconsin voters show these two how much they appreciate them turning the state government into a circus spectacle.
Elections have consequences.
And so does cowering in another state to avoid performing your sworn, duly elected, duty.
They should be despised by any reasonable and responsible voter for being derelict in their duties and immature in their actions.
They abdicated their duty and office. They can save face by committing Seppuku. We’re waiting! (taps foot impatiently)
Dexter Alarius said:
I hope Wisconsin voters show these two how much they appreciate them turning the state government into a circus spectacle.
You’re being generous.
Drive those FleeBaggers out of the state while receiving justice on the business End of a Buggy Whip – drive em all the way to Chicago.
(Hit the road Jack and don’t you come back no more, no more, no more, no more.)
(Hit the road Jack and don’t you come back no more.)
What you say?
(Hit the road Jack and don’t you come back no more, no more, no more, no more.)
(Hit the road Jack and don’t you come back no more.)
In the military it is called, depending on the service branch, either AWOL (Absent Without Leave) or UA (Unauthorized Absence).
The penalties for such infractions of the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice) can range from reduction in rank and pay to a DD (Dishonorable Discharge).
Elected officials shirking their sworn duty in government by leaving their appointed place of service to their constituents is every bit as reprehensible as a member of the military going “over the hill” and should be subject to equal forms of punishment for such actions.
The obsolete media was all over the last recall, making it sound as if the Republicans lost just by having the recall.
Wonder how much coverage this will get?
tre,
Brent Bozell already covered that w/ Sean. ABC didn’t even acknowledge the Recall and I believe NBC on the other extreme devoted an entire 1:45 sec. to it.
That would depend on if the Dems loose or not. If they loose the media will be mum, if they win they will call it a repudiation of the Tea Party.
Bad news (likely, at least) – WisPolitics found weekend polling from DailyKos/PPP that has both Holperin and Wirch up by double digits. While their earlier polling (the only publicly-released polls I am aware of) has not been overly reliable, neither has it been off by double digits.
I really hope they send these Communist Demonrats packing! Send them home!
By all means necessary, get rid of the fleebaggers. Reelecting them keeps them in the system for higher office.The “bottom up, top down and inside out” can be used against the commie left. Weed out all the irresponsible elected officials, starting at the bottom locally, the top nationally and everyone in between. No one can be left waiting in the wings to continue any anti-constitutional policies. Big gov supporters at the state level need removing in order to reestablish enforcement of the 10 amendment.
Why not? All means necessary and legal. Fleebaggers and their supporters are prepared to use all means necessary and not necesarily legal to get in office and stay in office.
#s 32 and 33,
YYEEEEESSSSSSSS !!!
Race maybe closer than kos poll:
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From Wispolitics.com
11:31 AM: Red Racing Horses has 12th SD Holperin 51, Simac 49
A poll commissioned by the conservative Red Racing Horses blog has a much closer race in the 12th SD than a survey done for the liberal website Daily Koss.
The poll, done by the GOP consulting firm We Ask America, found 51 percent of those surveyed backed state Sen. Jim Holperin, D-Conover, while 49 percent backed Tea Party activist and small business owner Kim Simac.
The Daily Kos poll had Holperin up 55-41.
It also found 41 percent of those surveyed approved of the job President Obama has been doing, while 56 percent approved.
The blog post on the poll says the sample size was 1,384 and the survey was conducted over the weekend, but it does not include specifics on the date or whether participants were screened for likely voters. We’ve emailed the blog for the polling memo.
The blog post puts the margin of error at plus or minus 2.62 percentage points and says the break down of those surveyed was 28 percent Dems, 28 percent Republicans and 43 percent independents.
– By JR Ross
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Daily Kos Attempt to supress voter turnout. Oh gee, that was unexpected.
/sarc
Thanks for the find, ignatzk. That feels a lot more correct than the DKos/PPP poll.
Just as a reminder – there is no party registration in Wisconsin, so party affiliation listed in the various polls may or may not be entirely accurate. I’ll have to cobble up a quick look at that later today.
I hear tomorrow’s poll will have definitive results.
WWLS
What Would Lombardi Say?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocV5bGHdYag
Wisconsin, why don’t you live up to your “official” state song:
On, Wisconsin! On, Wisconsin!
Champion of the right,
“Forward”, our motto
God will give thee might!
Elected to do a duty, they ran.
Getting paid taxpayer money, for NOT doing the job.
Thieves
#4. On August 15th, 2011 at 10:26 am, RedDog said:
Communists must go down they must go down hard. Cut, Cap, balance baby. Sorry for the pain Mr. Democrat but that tumor has to come out.
Mr. Democrat IS the tumor and must be removed from the body politic.
Too bad we can’t get rid of Julie Lassa right now as well.
Actually, she is eligible for recall. Even though the signature effort by the Utah-based group fell short, the fact that they didn’t turn in the signatures means a local group could try.
On the other hand, the fact the Utah group fell short does not exactly bode well for a local group. Besides, she’s up for re-election next year (a big reason why the DPW ran her against Sean Duffy for Congress; the others who wanted the seat would have had to choose between the state Senate and the House of Representatives).
I just went to a few left wing websites and they are not talking about tomorrows elections……..You KNOW they are very worried. LOL
I predict both fleebaggers will keep their seats.
Never underestimate the evil of Marxists.
Hey WI Tea Party. Want to show you are relevant? Get out the vote! Voting is the only way to show people what the Tea Party really wants. Otherwise its just what Harry Reid and the pundits say it is. If you allow the Fleebaggers to stay, you are saying its ok in that district.
And when Jannie Schakowsky wasn’t campaigning for WI fleebaggers on her summer vacation, she was working on a plan for the fall session of Congress to propose a $227 billion “emergency” jobs bill to create, get this, new teachers, policemen and firefighters—yeah, more PUBLIC UNION jobs, using more TAXpayer $$$ to help funnel more cold cash into the political coffers of the Ditzocrats.
Of course, it’s to be paid for by 1) raising taxes on those sinister millionaires and billionaires (cuz there are soooooooooo many of them it’ll raise QUADrillions of $$$$), 2) closing tax loopholes, and 3) the illusory fan favorite, “subsidies”– uh, hey, Warren Buffet, get out your checkbook, we have a destination for your homeless tax dollars.
Oh, and when the WI fleabaggers get Orkined and Terminixed from WI, she can bring them back to IL to run for the absolutely pristine, corruption-proof Illinois state legislature—or maybe they’d like to try for that bastion of perfection: the untainted office of Governor of Illinois.
On Wisconsin GOP!!!!
And when they do, the whole effort will be spun as a “great victory”, since the Republican majority was weakened, and no Democrats lost.
14 Dems fled the state, so why are only 2 facing a recall vote? I remember something about stolen petitions, is that the reason?
I hear Illinois has plans to annex Wisconsin. There’s more cheese there.
Sorry, that was bad…
The WI voters have that golden opportunity to have their voices heard today. I hope that they know the value of speaking up for themselves and that they turn out in record numbers to be heard.
Dang! You took the words right out of my mouth
that wouldn’t be a problem for these fleabaggers(not misspelled), they’d get a Drs. excuse from one of the frauds that signed off for the teachers.
A couple reasons:
- Because 6 of the Fleebaggers were elected just last year, those 6 are safe from recall until next year.
- 5 of the other Fleebaggers are in very-safe Democrat districts. Indeed, only one of those 5, Senate Dem leader Mark Miller (D-Madison) faced a local-based recall effort, and that fell just short of the number of signatures required.
- The Republicans screwed up royally in the recall effort against the third recall that reached the election stage, against Dave Hansen (D-Green Bay). The stronger of the 2 challengers, Rep. John Nygren (R-Marinette), didn’t turn in enough signatures on his nomination papers. Hansen went on to crush the weaker of the 2 candidates, David VanderLeest.
Not worried about a “Doctors” excuse, this time around. NO EXCUSES ALLOWED, if you are VOTED OUT.
Either way, the deNOcrats have spent millions….and already LOST. We spoke LOUD and CLEAR, last November….and (hopefully) still hold the majority for future endeavors.
For now, optimism and sanity, have RETURNED (to Wisconsin….or Cape Twisco, for the out-of-staters).
Sometimes you say some really stupid sh!t!
C’mon, Wisconsin…Just Do It. Bring them down with a powerful message.
Both Dems are projected to keep their seats–which is a disappointment. Unfortunately, both Repub challengers hurt themselves with the fact that both of them had “issues” with paying their taxes. Tax paying delinquency doesn’t go over well with voters. Stuck on stupid.