WI recall: 2nd election is in 6 days

First, let's take a moment to celebrate with the Wisconsin Fight Song.

Now, let's get ready for the next round of recall elections.
@ktuerk tweeted it best:

Last nite was a nice dress rehearsal. Now let's get out & work twice as hard for th big show! WeCanDoThis! #FlipTheSenate #wiunion #wirecall

The next election is for our Teamster brother, state Sen. Dave Hansen, who's being recalled because he had the guts to leave the state rather than vote for Koch whore Gov. Scott Walker's radical anti-worker agenda.

Hansen will face a Republican deadbeat with an arrest record, Dave VanderLeest, on July 19. There are also two Republican primaries that day to pick challengers to two other Democrats, Jim Holperin and Robert Wirch.

Here's some news from DailyKos about how those races look:

On a conference call with reporters earlier today, Democratic Party of Wisconsin chair Mike Tate said that their internal polling shows the three Democratic facing recalls, Senators Bob Wirch, Dave Hansen and Jim Holperin, all over 50 percent against their best-known challengers....

This is not much of a surprise in the case of Wirch and Hansen, as neither was expected to face much trouble in these recalls. However, in the case of Holperin, it is really big news. Holperin's district is significantly more red-leaning than any of the others where Democrats face recalls, and as such there was legitimate worry he was threatened. If Holperin has a solid lead, then there is a much clearer path for Democrats netting three seats they need to flip control of the state Senate.

A new UW Badger Poll also had some promising news:

• 56% disapprove of the job Republicans in the State Legislature are doing.
• 48% disapprove of the job Democrats in the State Legislature are doing.
• Wisconsinites overwhelming think the recall option in the state constitution is a good thing (78%), and 50% said the current recalls of state senators made them feel better about Wisconsin politics.
• 59% of residents statewide preferred that the Democratic state senators remain in office rather than be recalled and 49% said the same of the Republican state senators.

(The UW Badger Poll™ was conducted by the University of Wisconsin Survey Center. Poll results compiled by Chad J. Kniss, Project Director, UW Survey Center. (email: ckniss@ssc.wisc.edu) (office: 608.262.4157)

Nevertheless, let's not get too comfortable. You can bet the Republicans will raise scads of corporate cash and they'll play all kinds of dirty tricks.

We need to send a message to every politician in America that they'll be in a world of hurt if they attack the middle class. And the best way to send that message is to do whatever you can to make sure the six Republican state senators do get recalled and the three Democratic state senators don't.

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