Recall Walker Light Brigade strikes again

We found this on Daily Kos, along with a snarky post about "dozens" who showed up for a pro-Koch whore Walker rally in Washington County, Wisc.

WISN (local ABC affiliate) reports that "dozens of people" rallied in support of Governor Scott Walker.

Dozens, eh?

The rally was held in West Bend, WI (Washington County), a Republican stronghold. The Washington County GOP boasts they are the "reddest county in Wisconsin!" The Walker support rally is all over their homepage.

This was their second rally. The first attracted 50 Walker supporters. I'm not sure if the "dozens" reported for the second rally represents more or fewer than 50 (2 dozen = 24, 4 dozen = 48, etc).

The website also proudly proclaims that they have received "several calls" for pro-Walker yard signs, and encourage their readership to engage the petition-gatherers about why they support a recall.

DailyKos also tells us Jan. 8 began the second-ever "National Recall Walker Week." (Recall petitions are due Jan. 17.)  Approximately 25,000 people have already volunteered to collect petitions to recall Koch whore Gov. Scott Walker. Here's what they're asking you to do this week:

During the next week, make any large or small intervention, action, happening, protest, occupation. Then document it with photos, video, or descriptions. Post the results in the comments section one of our National Recall Walker Week diaries...

Suggested actions: Go to your state capitol with some friends and sing "On Wisconsin," order a pizza and ask them to spell out "Recall Walker" with pepperoni or buy a beer for someone from Wisconsin. (Gee, which one do you think Teamsters are most likely to do?)

Seriously, though, our brothers and sisters behind the cheese curtain deserve props for having fun. Fighting the War on Workers is exhausting, and it's important to keep our spirits up.

Let's unpack Scott Walker's lies (or at least start the effort)

Koch whore Gov. Scott Walker doesn't ever let the truth get in the way of his relentless drive to turn Wisconsin into a subsidiary of Koch Industries. But as he prepares for a recall election, his lies seem to have gotten worse. 

Just the other day he told Politico he would crush union bosses. He said “You saw earlier this summer, the national big government union bosses, in total, along with other groups, spent about $44 million on the six state Senate recall elections.…"

Wrong. Try $14 million. 

We looked a little further and found more whoppers. For example, he said, spent $13 million on his run for governor.

Wrong again, Scotty boy. The Republican Governors Association, fueled by the Koch brothers, threw another $5 million into Walker's campaign kitty. 

He claimed only a “handful of folks want to stand up and cry foul” to his anti-worker legislation. 

Unh-unh. The protests in Madison earlier this year were "the largest and most sustained demonstrations we've ever seen."

Walker also claimed he kept all his campaign promises. That one almost made our head explode, until we saw this Milwaukee Journal Sentinel op-ed by Kathleen Falk that ticks off his major lies. Titled, "Scott Walker has not been honest," here are some highlights:

For the first time that anyone can recall, we have a governor who did not tell the truth about what he was planning to do as governor. And Scott Walker would not have been elected if he had been truthful about his intentions... 

In describing his attack on collective bargaining as the only way to fix the budget, he ignored the concessions on pensions and health insurance agreed to by the unions, he concealed his wholly partisan motivation and he knowingly misled Wisconsinites...

He said during the campaign that he didn't intend to cut kids off health care, but he has. The nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau noted that Walker's cuts will mean 65,000 people, 29,000 of them children, will lose access to their current health care. Walker said he would maintain the state's commitment to fund education that keeps our schools strong but then proposed the largest cuts to education in Wisconsin history. 

He said after Republicans lost two seats in the state Senate that Wisconsinites want more bipartisanship on the very same day he signed into law the most partisan redistricting law that anyone can recall.

He said he is focused on creating jobs, but since Walker took office, we are losing jobs at rates not seen in decades, and his own administration recently admitted that he won't fulfill his promise to create 250,000 new jobs.

No wonder, Falk writes,

One of the most frequent comments I hear as I travel the state is: "I never would have voted for him if I had known what he was going to do."

Today's Teamster News 11.29.11

Knight: Teamsters’ strength stands up to power (opinion)  Pekin Daily Times   ...in less than a month, the union has shown that a determined few can stand up for themselves; with their union brothers and sisters they can stand up to the rich and powerful...
Walker Recall Effort Says 300,000 Signatures In  Associated Press   ...The United Wisconsin coalition needs 540,208 signatures by Jan. 17 to force a recall election sometime in 2012...
Rich James: Indiana doesn’t need right-to-work legislation (opinion)  Post-Tribune   ...there will be an unwarrated attack upon organized labor. The Republicans, who do the bidding of corporations and other businesses, will seek the passage of a right-to-work bill...
Voting Rights Advocate Held At Gunpoint By SWAT Team With No Warrant  Crooks and Liars   ...Last Monday, attorney Barbara Arnwine was rudely awakened by the sounds of a police raid on her home...
Euro zone crisis biggest threat to global economy-OECD  Reuters   ...The euro zone has already entered a mild recession but much worse could follow unless policy makers take decisive action to get ahead of the market...
Judge Blocks Citigroup Settlement With S.E.C.  New York Times   ... Taking a broad swipe at the Securities and Exchange Commission’s practice of allowing companies to settle cases without admitting that they had done anything wrong, a federal judge on Monday rejected a $285 million settlement between Citigroup and the agency...

Nice. Death threats to Walker recall petitioners

Harassing phone calls and stolen "Recall Walker" signs in Wisconsin. And the recall campaign is less than a week old.

Recall Walker Rally video

(UPDATES to correct that there were three Teamster semis on the square.)

Thanks to blue cheddar for the montage video showing highlights of yesterday's rally to recall Koch whore Gov. Scott Walker.

We'll let blue cheddar tell you what's in the video:

You’ll see the Solidarity Sing Along singers, avid recall volunteer Roberta Retrum from Eagle River, and the rotunda full of people. Roberta’s had great success in the hometown of Tea Party leader Kim Simac despite occasional hassles. There’s also a bit of footage of an impromptu sing of “Solidarity Forever” in the street and a shout-down of some Walker supporters who were hovering around the fringes of our event.

Watch more of blue cheddar's "Recall Walker" videos here.

Off camera, two three Teamsters semis were parked on the square as Teamsters collected cans of food (advancing the "Can Walker" theme) for needy families.

At least 105,000 signatures have been collected since Nov. 15. That's a great start toward the 540,000 needed by Jan. 17 to put the recall on the ballot.