Scott Walker Survives Recall..... Convincingly

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06 ... ted-heavy/

On Tuesday, an overwhelming majority of Wisconsin voters concluded that the complaints against Walker were not enough reason to oust him midterm.

With more than 90 percent of precincts reporting, Walker had nearly 54 percent of the vote, compared with 45 percent for Barrett, according to unofficial returns tabulated by The Associated Press.

"Voters really do want leaders who stand up and make the tough calls," Walker said in his victory speech, to chants of "Thank You Scott."

beemerboy wrote:The money raised and spent for that recall election was ridiculous.

For Walker, something in the neighborhood 66% of the $30.5M he collected, and for Barret 26% of 3.9M came from outside the state.

With the population of the state of Wisconsin (5.71M), each and every person in the state could have received a check for five million dollars and there would still be money left over.

beemerboy wrote:With the population of the state of Wisconsin (5.71M), each and every person in the state could have received a check for five million dollars and there would still be money left over.

samhill wrote: I was Union for the better part of my life & never got much of anything from the Union