{"id":7967,"date":"2012-06-06T10:07:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T17:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7967"},"modified":"2012-06-06T10:07:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T17:07:25","slug":"walker-wins-by-five-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/06\/walker-wins-by-five-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Walker Wins by Five Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is difficult for me to find the words to adequately describe my disappoint over yesterday\u2019s recall election.  Walker won by a 53% to 46% margin, so Wisconsin still does not exist, and the region had only a minor name change to the Totalitarian Corporate Plutocracy of Fitzwalker$tan.  I cannot remember a time that residents of a state had so great an opportunity to educate themselves regarding the policies and character of a candidate, and the 53% that were too lazy to do so and voted for Walker are so contemptible that Walker is exactly what they deserve.  Even 37% of Union workers voted for Walker!!! My heart goes out to the rest.  In the end, only five votes mattered.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"6Walker\"Gov. Scott Walker, whose decision to cut collective bargaining rights for most public workers set off a firestorm in a state usually known for its political civility, easily held on to his job on Tuesday, becoming the first governor in the country to survive a recall election and dealing a painful blow to Democrats and labor unions. <\/p>\n

Mr. Walker soundly defeated Mayor Tom Barrett of Milwaukee<\/strong>, the Democrats\u2019 nominee in the recall attempt, with most precincts across the state reporting results. The victory by Mr. Walker, a Republican who was forced into an election to save his job less than two years into his first term, ensures that Republicans largely retain control of this state\u2019s capital, and his fast-rising political profile is likely to soar still higher among conservatives. <\/p>\n

Here in Waukesha, some Republican voters said the result ended the most volatile partisan fight in memory, one that boiled over 16 months ago in the collective bargaining battle and expanded into scuffles about spending, jobs, taxes, the role and size of government, and more. Democrats, some of whom are already pledging to mount strong challenges for state lawmakers\u2019 seats in November, seemed less sure about the meaning of Mr. Walker\u2019s victory\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <NY Times<\/a>><\/p>\n

Ed Schultz discussed the loss with Jon Nichols and Ruth Conniff.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course, Barrett has conceded now, but there is one good thing for us.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"6Lehman\"Democrats appeared to have assumed control of the state Senate<\/strong> with results posted early  Wednesday showing former Sen. John Lehman (D-Racine) defeating incumbent Van Wanggaard in a tight race.<\/p>\n

Republicans held on to three other state Senate seats in Tuesday’s recall voting. Democratic challengers lost recalls bids against Sens. Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) and Terry Moulton (R-Chippewa Falls.).<\/p>\n

Rep. Jerry Petrowski (R-Stettin) was elected to fill the vacancy left by Sen. Pam Galloway (R-Wausau), who resigned earlier this year after opponents gathered enough signatures to initiate a recall election.<\/p>\n

All eyes Wednesday will be on the 21st District. Results posted early Wednesday showed Lehman with 36,255 votes to 35,476 for Wanggaard with 100% of precincts reporting. The margin of 779 could bring a recount.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Senate Democratic Leader Mark Miller said:<\/p>\n

"Tonight, Wisconsinites across the 21st Senate District elected a new State Senator\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/a>><\/p>\n

If the recount holds, at least Fitzwalker$tan will have muzzled their Fartfuhrer.<\/font> <\/p>\n

At the outset, I said that Walker won by five votes. Here they are:<\/font><\/p>\n

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It is difficult for me to find the words to adequately describe my disappoint over yesterday\u2019s recall election.  Walker won by a 53% to 46% margin, so Wisconsin still does not exist, and the region had only a minor name change to the Totalitarian Corporate Plutocracy of Fitzwalker$tan.  I cannot remember a time that residents […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}