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Photos: In Madison, Little Fanfare as Recall Petitions Filed with State

There were as many reporters as protesters as grandmother Julie Wells hands in paperwork kicking off the official recall effort.

 
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Julie Wells, a 52-year-old grandmother of 12, turned in the petition papers to the GAB office Tuesday morning.
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The streets were eerily quiet in Madison Tuesday as Julie Wells, a grandmother of 12, filed petitions with the state Government Accountability Board to recall Gov. Scott Walker.

Accompanied by former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk and Mahlon Mitchell, president of the Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin, Wells was energetic as they marched from the Recall Walker campaign office to the GAB office.

"Walker isn't on our side, he doesn't fight for us," Falk said.

As Wells turned in the petition papers, she smiled.

"I've waited 10 months for this, it feels surreal," she said. "We're taking back our state."

Volunteers were scattered lightly throughout downtown Madison. John Arms, a 42-year-old massage therapist from Madison, signed the petition to recall Walker and said he's just doing his part.

"A lot of the things they're trying to do affects me and it affects a lot of people that I know. So, I'm just trying to do my part," Arms said.

If the recall against Walker is successful, Falk said she will consider running against him. However, "right now our job is to get those signatures."

  • Do you think the recall against Gov. Scott Walker will be successful?

    (Voting has been closed for this question)
    • Yes
        176 (55%)
    • No
        140 (43%)
    • I don't care, I stay out of politics.
        3 (0%)
    Total votes: 319
  • Your vote will only count once. This is not a scientific poll. View Results Vote!
Related Topics: Capitol Square, Gov. Scott Walker, Government Accountability Board, Julie Wells, Kathleen Falk, Petitions, Photos, Rebecca Kleefish, and Recall

SIVA

12:34 pm on Tuesday, November 15, 2011

With such feudalistic propensities about the nation's economy, a party like GOP can succeed in polls only in a country like US where the poor constitute a minority in population. Mr. Walker especially is remarkable example of one who wants to play a lackey to purse-proud potentates and a monumental example of the worshiper of the wealthy. He is satisfied to witness the wealthy wallow in wealth; he may get a few meatless bones as their servile pets do..

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Patriot

12:55 pm on Tuesday, November 15, 2011

@Siva-WOW!!! Impressive selection words!! I work hard for my money and I am sick and tired of paying the way for those who are either to damn lazy or think we should all be equal!! Finally A Gov who listens to the regular people in this State. As we are the majority and you are the minority

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Craig

2:43 pm on Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Well said Dave. Those of us who have worked our whole lives deserve a break on the taxes. I guess if one is a public worker, they feel entitled to putting their sticky fingers in our wallets.
Anyone on a fixed income should thank Walker, another Doyle would have run Wisconsin into Illinios.
When the recall idiots show up at your door ask for ID- they should be Wisconsin residents, if not I believe this is a violation.

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Keith Schmitz

8:35 pm on Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Nobody is asking that we become equal. We are demanding that we become less damned unequal.

Most, if not just about all people, don't want to be unemployed, so trash that pleasing fantasy. In this country, most people define their self-worth by having a job, and in many cases those jobs are not there because a few people want to be obscenely wealthy.

Operating on your fantasy to justify your support for the policies of this governor so you can save a few bucks in taxes is, to be kind, sad.

Greg

1:19 pm on Tuesday, November 15, 2011

I think the word "fizzle" should have been used in the story. The few, the low, the recallers really need to find something positive to do.

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Toby Mueller

1:29 pm on Tuesday, November 15, 2011

If Ms. Wells waited for 10 months to submit these papers and was excited about it, she really needs to get a hobby or a job. Maybe recalling is her hobby?

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Rob Hustad

2:21 pm on Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Toby, maybe you should find out who she is before you slam her. She is a hardworking factory worker. This is an awesome hobby! Walker is going to get the boot.

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Craig

2:45 pm on Tuesday, November 15, 2011

If she is a hardworking factory worker, then she must be in a non union shop! :-P
If Walker does get the boot- we all are going to get the shaft.

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Toby Mueller

3:06 pm on Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Turns out that Ms. Wells is "just a citizen that was chosen by United Wisconsin" to turn in the papers. That was not by accident. If the Union thug or Kathleen Falk turned them in, it would not look as good as if a grandmother of 12, who just so happens that this is her first time involved in politics, had. My guess is that she does not work at a factory Rob..

http://www.wrn.com/2011/11/walker-recall-paperwork-is-filed/

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Greg

3:13 pm on Tuesday, November 15, 2011

I'd never slam her, for crum sake, she looks like she lives under a bridge.

Rachel Cross Coty

4:09 pm on Tuesday, November 15, 2011

As Mrs. Wells' daughter, I can assure you that she does in fact work in a factory, and she has worked her 12 hours shifts for the last 20 years, since they opened the plant doors. Personal attacks on her looks? Really? Is it because you can't debate the true issue?

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Randy1949

7:05 pm on Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Ignore the 'usual suspects', Rachel. Attacks on people's looks is usually the best they have to offer.

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DMoore

6:01 pm on Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Rachel, how about we debate who YOU ARE. Here's a link to a Facebook "Anti-Tea Party" profile whereby you are applauding the efforts of OWS protesters (you know, the very ones that attack police officers and rape women): http://www.facebook.com/NoTeaParty/posts/145097385592219 . Note your comment, "...it all comes down to big banks & corporations buying politicians...." Yet, when one clicks on your Facebook profile you represent yourself as being the "C.E.O." of "Coty, Inc" from "January 2001 to present." When one clicks on your "Coty, Inc." Facebook icon it takes one to a synopsis of Coty, Inc., therein describing it as a "cosmetics and fragrance" company based out of NEW YORK with exclusive marketing contracts with, inter alia, Beyonce Knowles and Madonna (see http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Coty-Inc-Announces-Agreement-cnw-2296206199.html). Wow, that's not bad for a gal who graduated from Fort Atkinson High in 1997 (according, again, to your FB profile)! Only thing is, the CEO of Coty, Inc. of New York City is ACTUALLY one Bernd Beetz (see http://www.coty.com/about_coty/ceo_message#/about_coty/ceo_message). Hence, being the bastion of "true issues" that you are, would you care to explain to the rest of us why you're impersonating a CEO of a fragrance company -- the very type of person you are ridiculing in your pro-OWS rant? What if anything do you really do for a living and did you get your "honesty" from your mother?

DKelly

6:12 pm on Tuesday, November 15, 2011

What a shock that the union thugs are using a sweet middle aged white woman to be their lackey for the delivering of the ill-fated recall petition. I voted for and support Governor Walker along with 1,128,941 other voters last November. He is doing what he said he would and it is working! The only 3 school districts that are facing cuts in a major way happen to be the 2 who felt pressure to bargain with the unions before the reform act was instituted. Would you, the supporters of a recall, be willing to give your hard-earned money and things in life, including health insurance, to people less fortunate than yourself? After all, what you espouse is that the results should be equal for everyone, even if the effort and risk was not, right? If a homeless group wanted to share your home, would you let them on a permanent basis? As a taxpayer, I am tired of the public sector employees on the state level having better benefits and wages than most private sector taxpaying people. I agree with the speech Paul Ryan wherein he said we are not promised equal outcomes, we are promised equal opportunity in America.

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Gofaq Uurslf

6:58 pm on Tuesday, November 15, 2011

You know what else will have little fanfare.....Walker's re-election. Suck it unions.

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Hudson Resident

7:28 pm on Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Same stuff different day. Yawn.....

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Lilliom Magyar

12:54 am on Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Julie Wells looks to me like a very nice, kind mother of 12 who is smart enough to know that Gov. Walker does not support the best interests of most of us. She has taken on this just cause for the sake of her children's future and most all of us who are hard working middle class folks who want everyone and that INCLUDES the top 1% to only pay their fair share of cost and not shift their share onto us.

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cheryl

1:51 am on Wednesday, November 16, 2011

@dkelly, as one of Mrs. Wells children,I assure you that they were not "using" my mother to file the recall. She felt honored to be chosen and we,her family, is proud that she was chosen. My mom being active in this recall is her looking out for her children and grandchildren's futures. My mother is a very intelligent,hard working,and passionate woman. Thank you to those of you that share in her beliefs. To those of you that want to pick on her looks or think she has no job and no life,you need to educate yourself before you comment.

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Hudson Resident

6:58 am on Wednesday, November 16, 2011

If your mother was so "intelligent, hard working and passionate" then she wouldn't be working to ruin the future for her kids and grandkids. Of course maybe she is married to a government union thug or perhaps her kids have government jobs. There is always a reason why someone would do something so inherently stupid, you just have to look below the surface.....

kk

8:38 am on Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Wow what a bunch off person attacks against something that is legal. Drinks usually would diagnose that kind of behavior as anti social. It usually comes out when they know they are wrong and call people degrading insinuations when they are bullying. The facts are walker won on a very minor majority vote of a very minor total voters. If 1 million voted against him 500k could be a very easy number to sign recall. If you believe he is god than sign the recall and prove it.

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Greg

9:39 am on Wednesday, November 16, 2011

I take the recall as a personal attack and return in kind. The Governor was elected, as you stated. A minor majority is a majority, said and done. I worked hard to get Walker into office and you want to take that away, so it is personal.

Rachel Cross Coty

11:22 am on Wednesday, November 16, 2011

No Greg, it's not a personal attack, it's a democratic process. Get over yourself. Many people who voted for Walker feel betrayed and lied to. They have the right to attempt a recall. People do not have the right to harm those citizens, by scaring or threatening them for exercising said rights. Plotting to destroy signatures is illegal. Big difference. My mother is not married to a government union thug, nor are any of her family government workers. That's why she was chosen. She is an ordinary hard working, non-union Wisconsinite, who has grandkids in the public schools, has a mother who is a senior in Wisconsin, and is someone who has the intelligence to truly understand what is going on by educating herself tremendously on the various issues. Since the beginning, she has spent most of her free time keeping current on issues at hand in Wisconsin. She has a good paying job, pretty good benefits, pays her bills and still fears what Walker can do to affect herself and millions of others in the state. And she is passionate and extremely active in Recalling Walker! Now I have to wonder why you would do something as inherently stupid as continue to support that tool?

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CowDung

11:25 am on Wednesday, November 16, 2011

It is a democratic process to use 540,000 signatures to invalidate 1.1 million votes?

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Randy1949

12:47 pm on Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Yes it is, CowDung, if enough voters feel duped and wish to rescind their earlier vote For Walker. If that happens we'll have a new election to see if Scott Walker will win again now that we all know what he plans to do/has done already.

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CowDung

12:54 pm on Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Yes, but those 540k people aren't necessarily people that voted for Walker originally and have changed their mind. It's still a situation where 540k people get to invalidate the votes of 1.1 million people...

Rachel Cross Coty

1:30 pm on Wednesday, November 16, 2011

CowDung, what the recall does is trigger a Special Election. If enough signatures are collected, then there will be another election where all those people who still want Walker as governor can use their constitutional right to vote to keep him in. If it's the majority of Wisconsin he stays. However if the majority of voters pick the other candidate, he's out. Sounds pretty democratic to me.

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CowDung

1:39 pm on Wednesday, November 16, 2011

We had a fair and honest election last November--Why should a minority be able to invalidate those results and trigger a special election?

I can see if the elected official were to commit a crime in office or something like that, but it seems very undemocratic to recall a guy because you don't like one of the policies he put into law...

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Greg

7:49 pm on Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Get over yourself, he's our governor.

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Keith Schmitz

8:38 pm on Wednesday, November 16, 2011

In this state we have more than enough hurdles to call a recall. If enough people -- including those with buyer's remorse -- feel that Walker's policies constitute over reaching and a hind over of this state to outside interest, that is their absolute.

Needless to say we don't need your permission. You can cry and whine and pout all you want, but this is what democracy looks like.

It is more virtuous for our side to spend long, hard hours in pursuit of a democracy goal than your side sitting back and letting a bunch of vulture capitalists lie and buy their way to an election victory.

Rachel Cross Coty

2:01 pm on Thursday, November 17, 2011

@DMoore: Being the CEO at Coty Inc is a humorous title I gave myself due to my life as a stay at home mom of 3 kids, which I have been doing since I got married in 2001. I didn't realize that Coty, Inc was a real corporation, or that Facebook had tied me together as a link when I typed that. What is it I do exactly? I run my household, handle our finances, do all the shopping (by avoiding Walmart), shuttle my children to sports activities and preschool classes, and raise my kids to be good people. I am currently doing this as a single mom, since my husband had to leave the state to seek employment for the duration of the winter. I am active in the PTO and am a Girl Scout leader who is helping a troop of fifth grade girls show kindness and compassion to others. This coming week, we will be delivering the homemade apple pies each girl made, starting with picking the apples off a tree and through the whole pie making process to a local food pantry. So I guess I did get my ethics and honesty from my mom.

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