About wisconsin's supposed dislike of recall elections & belief recalls are only for malfeasance [View all]

[HiPointDem]

1. Wisconsin election law allows recall of any state, judicial, congressional or legislative official for any reason, and has since 1926.

http://legis.wisconsin.gov/rsb/unannotated_wisconst.pdf
p. 15


2. Wisconsin has held recall elections fairly frequently since 1990:

2011:
Wisconsin state senators Robert Cowles, Alberta Darling, Dave Hansen, Sheila Harsdorf, Jim Holperin, Luther Olsen and Robert Wirch survived attempted recalls, while Senators Randy Hopper and Dan Kapanke were recalled.

2003:
Wisconsin state senator Gary George was recalled.

1996:
Wisconsin state senator George Petak was recalled.

1990:
Wisconsin state assembly member Jim Holperin survived a recall election.

1932:
Wisconsin state senator Otto Mueller survived a recall election.

http://www.ncsl.org/legislatures-elections/elections/recall-of-state-officials.aspx




in short, if voters in wisconsin are parroting that "recalls are only for malfeasance!" and "we don't like recalls" it's because someone has been telling them that over and over and over again during this effort, or it's because they're really not saying that but someone wants people to believe they are.