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Republican Judge Sides With Scott Walker

With complete disdain for state law, Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin filed suit to force the state Government Accountability Board to have human beings check every single one of the over half-million signatures on the recall petitions being collected against him.

Judge J. Mac Davis of Waukesha County was a Republican state senator over 20 years ago. Toward the end of the Bush administration, he was nominated for a Federal judgeship, but the nomination was held up by the Democratic-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee. He very carefully crafted his ruling so that it would not be appealed at the Federal level, leaving it completely within the realm of the state’s laws for recall petition. To make their case, the Republicans managed to dredge up a recall petition from last year that contained the signature “Bugs Bunny.” It was on a Republican petition to recall a Democratic state senator. The GAB does verify the petitions, but according to the rules, if a person being recalled wants to check every single signature, they have to pay for it.

The GAB director, Kevin Kennedy, said that buying a computer program that could scan and verify the signatures would cost the state $94,000. Otherwise, it’s going to take up hours of state employees’ time at taxpayers’ expense.

The recall committee will not back down. If Walker hoped to anger the voters in Wisconsin by forcing this to be paid for by the taxpayer, he has miscalculated. With Walker’s budget cutting $1 billion out of local government funds, pushing this cost onto the state was a mistake. The people of Wisconsin know that he could have paid for the verification with all the money he has had donated for SuperPAC ads. When one is known for personally taking calls from the Koch brothers, costing the state unnecessary money is a dumb move.

 

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