every member of the wisconsin senate that is eligible to be recalled this year is being targeted. can you believe it? there are 16 formal recall petition campaigns being waged against eight democrats and eight republicans. state senator lena taylor who is often on this program is one of the wisconsin 14. she said that her fellow democrats are confident that her recall drives against them will fail. well, these are the eight republican senators who are vulnerable to a recall vote this summer. in each district they represent a petition must have enough signatures to equal 25% of the votes cast in that district in the last election meaning last november. so far, the wisconsin democratic party says it s already got 15% of the total it needs to recall all eight republicans. the race to fund these recall campaigns is heating up and it may come down to outside money
recalled this year is being targeted. can you believe it? there are 16 formal recall petition campaigns being waged against eight democrats and eight republicans. state senator lena taylor who is often on this program is one of the wisconsin 14. she said that her fellow democrats are confident that her recall drives against them will fail. well, these are the eight republican senators who are vulnerable to a recall vote this summer. in each district they represent a petition must have enough signatures to equal 25% of the votes cast in that district in the last election meaning last november. so far, the wisconsin democratic party says it s already got 15% of the total it needs to recall all eight republicans. the race to fund these recall campaigns is heating up and it may come down to outside money as a deciding factor. for more on that joining me tonight is adam green the
if you reach a deal with the republicans, is there a way of including some kind of stop of these recall campaigns or are those recall campaigns going on on their own? they re really started by the grass roots. there was one north of my district in senator darling s district where there was 500 people that showed up. they couldn t even fill the building they set up to meet in. that s grass roots, people coming out. they already received, achieved 25% of signatures needed. i think if she changed her position, said look, i am not going to attack worker rights, not going to continue to side with big corporations and scott walker, i am going to side with the people, i think all of that energy that s going to take her out of office would stop, and i think she knows that and i think the people know that. these are the people that are running this, it is not some outside group. it is mainly those people looking to be heard and haven t been heard at the capitol. i mean, they shut down public
standing up and saying, even though we have a republican governor, house, and senate, we re going to push back. and it s been a really inspirational thing and honestly people across the nation will, are taking the lead from the folks in wisconsin and this could usher in a new era over the next two years. we can only speculate if these recall campaigns are successful, we might see people thinking twice before they start attacking unions the way they have in wisconsin. adam green, great to have you with us tonight. thanks for your time. folks in wisconsin and this could usher in a new era over the next two years. we can only speculate if these recall campaigns are successful, we might see people thinking twice before they start attacking unions the way they have in wisconsin. adam green, great to have you with us tonight. thanks for your time. the republican fix is in the
offices, you know? i am not sure where they thought the people were going to go. they had no alternative but to go back to their neighborhoods and change the people who weren t listening to them and get people that actually will. what about the recall campaigns against the eight democrats. democrats are already in the minority there. can you withstand those recall campaigns against eight democrats? well, i mean, the polls and where the public stands on this, about 60 to 70% stand with us and stand in support of what we are doing. you have to remember, when the recalls started, they were started by a group in utah. i am not sure they knew where wisconsin was when they started these things, and they are largely funded by a group called americans for prosperity which is a koch brothers front group. i think people recognize that folks from utah and money from the koch brothers doesn t equal actual grass roots. it is astro turf campaign, and i think neighbors in these districts understa