The Twitter chatter is building
@legaleagle Legal Eagle aka Jen
@jacremes @annaironside @meimichan @superbranch We have sigs to recall 3 senators already & @recallfitz has a special announcement tomorrow.
@MaryErpenbach Mary Erpenbach
Working on a #wirecall sonnet, can't think of what rhymes with "more than 800,000." Hahahahahahahahahahaha!
(Update - Mary is Sen. Jon Erpenbach's sister & Russ Feingold's ex and a pretty reliable source.)
and Scott Fitzgerald has filed a complaint to try to stop the recall against him.
And so, once more...
Once more unto the breach, dear Wisconsin, once more;
Or close the wall up with our recall forms.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man or woman
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of RECALL blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the Badger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the Voter ID
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful Lake Superior.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest Badgers.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Bob LaFollettes,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to those of grosser blood,
And teach them how to canvass. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in Sheboygan, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'On for Oshkosh, LaCrosse, and Black River Falls!'