Peanut butter recall: Do you have Sunland peanut butter in you cupboard? You might want to check it. The company’s peanut butter, sold at Trader Joe’s (under the Trader Joe’s Creamy Salted Valencia Peanut Butter brand), Whole Foods, Target and numerous other stores, is the subject of a major recall due to salmonella. (The Trader Joe’s peanut butter set off the alarm.) On top of that, it’s not just limited to peanut butters. Sunland also makes other kinds of nut butters, along with tahini and blanched and roasted peanut products — all of which are on the recall list. (photo by Dr Stephen Dann/Flickr)
The union thugs, and Liberal scum are busing in people from Michigan to vote Democrat in Wisconsin. It’s the only way that liberals can win anything. They lie, and cheat. The Scum of America. I’m getting to the point of being closed minded to any liberals. It’s just that bad.
There’s this thing called evidence … Among the sources we can find reporting this are The Gateway Pundit (which once took a video I shot with my own phone and misrepresented it) and Pat Dollard, and both are sourcing something that some guy said on some radio show. Look, there’s a lot at stake tonight, but let’s stick with the truth. Evidence is not hearsay.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said his win in a June 5 recall election will push other politicians to work on reforms. He visited the Illinois Policy Institute, a conservative think tank, and spoke in front of 150 people at a downtown luncheon, the Chicago Tribune reports Friday.
“I think when we win, it will not only reaffirm what we did. It will send a powerful message to every politician…in our state and even in our city governments who are trying to take on the tough issues and do the right thing.”
Gubernatorial recalls are traditionally very difficult for non-incumbents to win, but it’s been done before — most prominently in 2003, when Arnold Schwarzenegger toppled unpopular governor Gray Davis in California.
Demonstrators calling for the recall of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker learned there really is such a thing as too much cowbell.
Oshkosh police arrested a 26-year-old Appleton man on Thursday after he kept playing a cowbell and shaking it in an officer’s face when he and other protesters were told to be quiet.
Bruce Dickinson would be disappointed.
Wisconsin State Senate recall election results 40 minutes after the polls have closed. Keep up with WISN as the results continue to come in.
The only predictions that are able to be taken seriously concern Districts 2 and 32. Democrats are expected to lose in District 2 and win in District 32.
The results have updated recently; State Senate District 2 has already been called in favor of Robert Cowles, and 10 in favor of Sheila Harsdorf. Dems are currently leading in 8 and 32, tied in 18, and way behind in 14. However, it’s still early.
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Wisconsin Republicans’ quixotic attempt to recall Democratic state senators has gotten off to a bad start: State Sen. David Hansen was easily re-elected in today’s recall election, defeating his opponent by a 2:1 margin. Hansen is the first of nine WI State Senators facing recall attempts (three Democrats, six Republicans).The recalls were first initiated by Democrats hoping to punish Republicans for supporting Scott Walker’s anti-union bill last Spring. Republicans, out of a combination of boredom and petulance, responded by launching their own recall petitions against Democrats who opposed the bill. source
» GOP pushback comes up a hair short: Following challenges by the Democratic Party in Wisconsin, the state’s Government Accountability Board has ruled that 26 of the Nygren campaign’s recall petition signatures are invalid, and as that left Nygren with just 398 signatures, they kicked him out of the race. Nygren is pursuing legal options, and frankly we don’t expect this to be over — two signatures is such a slim margin, it seems obvious that every last signature is again going to get combed over. The GOP still has a candidate, an activist named David VanderLeest, but given his comparatively lackluster background, we imagine they’re pushing to get Nygren back.
» Big money for big trickery: As you may have heard, the Republican Party in Wisconsin is facing a grim reality — recall elections are looming, and there’s a pretty decent chance the outcomes will tilt legislative power towards the Democrats. The reason, broadly speaking, is the passion and anger towards the state GOP’s efforts to strip public union rights. As such, they’re is aiming to delay the elections to hope things have time to cool off. Their plan is unorthodox: running Republicans, as Democrats, against the Democratic opposition at the primary stage, thus forcing an extra election. Extra elections come with a cost to the state, though, and this is no different. Sort of hurts the whole cash-strapped, “gotta cut back, gotta strip these union rights” narrative, huh?
We’ve got tons of government workers in my district — tons. From La Crosse to Prairie du Chien and to Viroqua and to Ontario and to Hillsboro, you can go on and on and on. We have to overcome that. We gotta hope that they, kind of, are sleeping on July 12th — or whenever the (election) date is.Wisconsin State Sen. Dan Kapanke • Expressing fear that he might get recalled due to the fact that his district has a lot of public-sector union workers in it. A secret recording caught Kapanke saying this along with a few other things. He noted in the clip, taped last week at the Cedar Creek Golf Club in Onalaska, Wisc., that two other state senators were in serious danger of losing their seats, too, and offered up this harbinger: “If they gain control of the Senate, it might be over for us. Because redistricting will play a role, as you know, and we lose that power.” Well, that doesn’t sound optimistic, does it? (h/t ThinkProgress) source (via • follow)
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