The 99% are getting ready to throw out Gov. Scott Walker, and chief legislative lieutenant Scott Fitzgerald, the Senate Majority leader, in separate recall elections soon to certified and held.
Fueling the outrage: special interest legislation and other conservative-monied influences on state government and politics that helped fuel Walker's rise and helped kindle the recall movements, too.
Among the blatant special interests events coming back to bite Walker:
* The State Assembly's unbelievably bad mining bill written in secret for a West Virginian to decimate the Penokee hills and Bad River watershed in Northern Wisconsin...
* A pro-industry wetlands de-regulation bill crafted by a boastful Wisconsin Builders Association, whose staff and former employees and associates now hold three top positions at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, including Secretary and Deputy...
* A paper mill closing demanded in Wausau by a hedge fund in New York City...
* The Heritage Foundation's dominant influence through Walker appointments over the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and the low-income services the agency should be providing...
* The financial and policy "knock you on your butt" rightist direction provided enthusiastically by Michael Grebe, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Bradley Foundation (Grebe chaired Walker's 2010 gubernatorial campaign, the transition team and will chair Walker's anti-recall effort)...
* Out-of-state fund-raisers that began early in 2011 to support Walker and the radical legislature's agendas, and have continued all year long to boost Scott Walker's recall election war chest.
The Austin, TX Statesman reported Thursday that Walker spoke before a conservative group there and would meet with donors to raise anti-recall donations:
Walker told the enthusiastic audience that helping him fight a recall would have repercussions across the country. Walker described Wisconsin as a potential swing state in the 2012 presidential election and said supporting his fight against a recall election would help Republicans win the White House.
He did not make a direct appeal for donations, but a spokeswoman for Walker said he would meet with potential campaign supporters while in Texas. Texas homebuilder and conservative activist Bob Perry has given him $250,000
Connect those dots - - the afore-mentioned Perry is the original swift-boating financier - - to grasp what has happened, and why, to Wisconsin after Walker "dropped the bomb" on public sector collective bargaining and thus his own state's middle class.
That memorable phrase is from his recorded call to the fake David Koch...
"Came home from the Super Bowl...had all of my cabinet over...it was kind of the last hurrah before we dropped the bomb."
...And you can see why Walker and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald are headed for recalls so the state can be managed openly by Wisconsin people with liberty and justice for all.