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WIN Converting Recall Doyle Exploratory Effort to a Remove Doyle Effort

Capt. Karl — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:21:17 +0000

WIN, a grassroots organization formed in March 2009 for the purpose of effecting change in WI politics in general and the removal of Gov. Jim Doyle specifically, has after careful consideration decided to change its tactics to achieve its stated purpose.

Shorewood, WI: Growing from a starting core group of dozen people to recently passing the 6000 mark on WWW.RecallDoyle.com, in under five months Win has demonstrated the great anti Doyle sentiment that exists in our state. WIN was started by a group of WI taxpayers such as teachers union workers business owners and just plain people all joined together with the common purpose changing the direction that our Gov. has taken WI in. Specifically, WIN chose as a means of change the removal of our Governor through a recall. The recall process instituted by the progressive movement in WI the early 1900’s to prevent the repeat of rampant special interest money of ever co-opting the Governorship as had happened during that era. We, the people of WIN, recognized that same co-opting of our Governorship even today.

WIN had a stated goal of enlisting the help of 10,000 volunteer signature gatherers to start a recall by June 1st. In a few short months we gathered 6000 volunteers. Though falling short of our numbers goal and the resultant miss of our start date, WIN’s statement to the political establishment in WI is that 6000 voices came together in four short months with no significant money, no endorsements (quite the opposite really – disdain and ridicule came at us from both the left and the right) and little to no commercial press coverage (we could not even buy billboard space from Clear Channel Communications because of censorship of our message “Taxed Enough? RecallDoyle.com”-a true freedom of speech travesty)-THIS IS AN AMAZING FEAT BY ANYONE’S MEASURE.

The people of WI are angry and though the recall is dead the spirit and actions of the WI electorate will live on. WIN will fight for truth and honesty in WI politics and a place at the table for the average WI taxpayer. WIN lives on as a citizens movement to expose our Gov. and his now famous words, “We cannot we must not and I will not raise taxes…Wisconsin’s problem is not that we tax too little it is that we spend too much”. We will be present at every opportunity to let Jim Doyle know that we have not forgotten his lies. Further, WIN will act in conjunction with CRG-Citizens for Responsible Government to spearhead the recalls of individual WI legislators. The express purpose of the recalls will be to get the tone deaf Legislators of WI to become responsive to the needs of WI families during this time of runaway government deficit spending, ever increasing tax and fee hikes and economic crisis.

W.I.N. Decides to Halt Governor Doyle Recall

Capt. Karl — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:17:39 +0000

The Liberty Tree Lantern was informed yesterday afternoon by Vince Schmuki, a leader of Wisconsin Interests Now (W.I.N.), that the groups efforts to recall Governor Doyle have been halted. Mr. Schumki cites serveral reasons for halting the recall:

1. We miscalculated on the last possible starting date. This is either a four and a half or five and a half month process from start to finish based on whether there has to be a recall primary. CRG made this clear. We always based decisions on the shorter time frame because there was not a Mark Neumann in the race necessitating a primary. Now there is and that threw our calculations off. That puts the conclusion of this recall into Jan/Feb 2010 depending on a start date. We have always said, as a group, from the beginning, that this recall process cannot go beyond 2009 for obvious reasons. Once you dip into the 2010 election year it becomes obvious that we will have an impossible job selling a recall over the natural 2010 election cycle. I did not have this fact hit me until after our last meeting was over. It was and still is sobering.

2. We missed our best start opportunity to catch people at their zenith of anger. This was during the passage of the state budget. The anger and interest level has subsided now and hits to our web site show as much. Also, donation flow has dropped to nothing.

3. We did not concentrate on organizing our S.E. quadrant of the state. It is simply a matter of too little too late to try to pull it together now. Tom Spear had said to me that it would take 6 weeks to turn our group into what it needs to be to organize our population base. Tom, a now retired professional organizer by vocation, is one of the most optimistic people in this recall effort. I take great stock of what he says.

4. I believe that a miserably failed recall will be a bigger disaster for the conservative movement than no recall at all. I originally thought that if we failed we would not have to reveal the numbers to the press but now I realize that the final tally would be impossible to contain given the number of people that would be in the know. We would become a laughing stock to the left AND THE RIGHT. The press already smells blood and have started to call me about the viability of the 6000 member database that we have. I couldn’t answer the question to the WI State Journal because we have no real knowledge. Again, we have never had the time or enough people in the core group to do a full scale evaluation of the database.

A badly failed recall would give the opposition great reason to ridicule us. It would also leave the impression that there is little opposition to Doyle -a message that WIN does not want to and cannot propagate.

Lastly, time has always been our enemy but keep in mind that in this short time we have achieved an amazing feat and all is not lost, far from it. WIN can go still go forward with our head held high. Without major money, press or endorsements we did what everyone, on both sides of the aisle, said couldn’t be done. What ACORN does with hordes of our hard earned tax money we did on a dime. We organized and became the voice for thousands of WI residents who wanted a say in the political process.

Further, we all know getting a good guy in as Gov. is not enough because we would then have a Walker/Milwaukee County Board gridlock situation repeated all over again. We must remove bad small-time players and get nomination papers circulated for good conservative candidates who can replace them and help out a conservative Governor. We have been in the past and can still be a force for change in our state in 2010.

We can still have a long lasting positive impact for the betterment of our state if we learn from our mistakes, refocus and move on to the next citizen effort. I hope that you will join in the vision and understand.

- - Vince Schmuki/ Representing WIN-Wisconsinites Interest Now

HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of Americans Across Country, Thousands in Madison, Wausau, Green Bay, Greenville and many other cities in WI Going to Tea Parties

Capt. Karl — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:11:40 +0000

OVER 8,000 Wisconsin Citizen’s in Madison, WI protesting Decades of U.S. Government Policies that have resulted in destruction of INDIVIDUAL freedom, liberty and prosperity. These protestors are also very angry at the insane level of Socialist spending by The State of Wisconsin, the closing and moving of businesses out of Wisconsin, and the thousands of job losses resulting in unacceptable unemployment rates around the State, resultant from Governor James Doyle policies. Doyle’s destruction of our business climate and State taxes and fees that are not tolerable anymore, according to these 8,000 Tea Party goers who chanted RECALL DOYLE, RECALL DOYLE so loud it echoed round the entire block.

Hundreds of Thousands of Americans, across the country, continue to protest decades of tyranny, usurpation, corruption, bailouts, TARP, stimulus packages, over taxation on people and small businesses, the loss of jobs and companies, The Federal Reserve “System” (A cartel of 12 privately held banks with massive control) and utter Constitutional contempt by all three branches of the U.S. Government.

In Madison Wisconsin the people also protested against the MASSIVE HUMOUNGUS Socialist spending programs of the State legislature and especially Governor James Doyle. A group called W.I.N. (Wisconsin Interests Now) is helping Wisconsin citizen’s improve their lot with regards to insane spending and taxation policies of Governor James Doyle which have resulted in a vast number of business closings, business moving out of Wisconsin and job losses, by way of a Recall. WIN feels that Wisconsin citizen’s, businesses, the economy and employment cannot possibly take another whole year of Governor Doyle’s $6.7 Billion dollar deficit spending and resulting tax and numerous fee raises.

See www.RecallDoyle.com

Watch, in this video, how much the Thousands of Wisconsin citizens at the Madison Tea Party want to see Governor Doyle RECALLED:

After the destruction of the Wisconsin economy and small businesses through taxation, fees on our citizens and small business and horrible business climate, the resulting loss of jobs and high Wisconsin unemployment numbers and the incredible high level of Socialistic and union spending programs, it is very easy to understand why so many thousands of people are willing to protest for the recall of Governor Doyle.

www.RecallDoyle.com

Wisconsin doing poorly on jobs and personal income

Capt. Karl — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:02:05 +0000

Thomas Hefty and John Torinus Jr.: Wisconsin doing poorly on jobs and personal income

By THOMAS HEFTY and JOHN TORINUS JR.

Our state motto is “Forward,” but Wisconsin is falling behind in the economic race to create jobs and raise family incomes.
We’re lagging our own economic performance of the 1990s and losing ground to other states — especially to other upper Midwest states such as Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois.
This sobering assessment transcends the usually polarized debate in Madison. From the left, right and center, the view is equally grim.
From the left, the Center on Wisconsin Strategy published its annual report in late 2008 with this unhappy summary:
“The national economy has grown more rapidly than Wisconsin’s, leaving the state’s per capita income more than $2,500 behind the national [average].”
From the center, the non-partisan Competitive Wisconsin group reached a similar conclusion in its 2008 benchmark report: “Wisconsin has moved further away from the national average in per capita income, number of new jobs created and number of new private businesses.”

See the rest of the story here: http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/forum/458043

How about we get rid of Doyle now before he completely destroys all jobs and business in The State of Wisconsin. Volunteer here to circulate petitions for recall: www.RecallDoyle.com

We have well over 5000 petition circulators committed and signed up already. Another 3 – 5 Thousand Volunteers and we will engage the actual Recall process where we have 60 days to get 500,000 signatures. Will you help by just getting 25 – 50 signatures on the petition? If you want to help us Recall Doyle, please signup as a volunteer at: www.RecallDoyle.com

There isn’t a day to lose! Search for the name “Doyle” on this blog to see all sorts of stuff he has done or is going to do to us and our small businesses here in Wisconsin in terms of taxation and fees.

Recall Doyle effort includes lawmakers

Capt. Karl — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:27:18 +0000

Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 9:45 AM

By Jackie Johnson

A group trying to recall the governor rallies at the capitol, saying enough is enough.

With a budget deficit of more than $6.6-billion, Wisconsinites Interests Now says the budget problem is much bigger than the governor. Vince Schmuki (shmoo-kee) of the group says the “Recall Doyle” effort has widened its target to include lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly.

“Because what’s quite obvious, these are tone-deaf people; they really don’t get it. Sometimes in politics it takes a two-by-four approach across the head to get somebody to wake up.”

Schmuki says their recall efforts aim to highlight the budget-making process, which he says is very dishonest. Schmuki says he’s had enough of deep-into-the-night sessions, behind closed door meetings, and decisions without public discussion. Schmuki is urging voters to do more than visit the polls in November, saying those who have a stake in the process actually need a voice in the process.

“We need people who are actively involved, contacting, being phycically present, being in the face of their legislators, their senators and their governor.”

Schmuki stresses the dishonest, deficit-laden budget is going to hit our future generations pretty hard.

“Those are our children and our grandchildren. They’re the one’s who’ll become economic slaves, paying off this debt. And this is not a small debt. We actually have a higher-per-capita debt than the state California, which I might add is bankrupt right now.”

Schmuki says nobody can sustain this level of spending, and a corresponding amount of taxing to follow, without having destructive consequences to an economy, the state, and the future of Wisconsin. For naysayers, Schmuki explains that when the people no longer trust an elected official with their hard-earned money, a recall is not only allowed, but it is their duty.

The group is still in the organizational phase of their recall, and have not yet begun collecting signatures.

Doyle’s office was contacted and they had no comment.