the million voter threshold is somebody nobody seriously floated before it happened today. can you give us some sense of how big that number is and how unexpected that was? it seems like it s much higher than even the democrats highest target. yeah, i was very surprised when mike tate the chair of the party said 720,000 signatures i thought that would be great. then i started hearing 800,000, 900,000, i thought that would be high, but a million is huge. think about it we had 60 days to gather signatures, thousands of volunteers were scattered throughout the state and on average gathered over 16,000 signatures a day. that is huge. that is a big, big number. so it sends a strong message not only to governor scott walker but all the republican governors throughout the nation who are thinking about messing around with collective bargaining rights or cutting funding to education and the list goes on. this is a huge wake up call if
he got when he was first elected in 2010. in terms of the magnitude of that, we talk about big numbers a lot in the news, not just about dollars, but often people, the million voter threshold is somebody nobody seriously floated before it happened today. can you give us some sense of how big that number is and how unexpected that was? it seems like it s much higher than even the democrats highest target. yeah, i was very surprised when mike tate the chair of the party said 720,000 signatures i thought that would be great. then i started hearing 800,000, 900,000, i thought that would be high, but a million is huge. think about it we had 60 days to gather signatures, thousands of volunteers were scattered throughout the state and on average gathered over 16,000 signatures a day. that is huge. that is a big, big number. so it sends a strong message not only to governor scott walker