Yesterday was the deadline for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker to submit his official recall signature challenges to the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (GAB). Finally, he would have his opportunity to expose the fraud and deceit perpetrated by all those out-of-state union thugs being paid to circulate petitions. He would challenge hundreds of thousands of signatures. Multiple signings by the same person. Signatures from Donald Duck, Abe Lincoln, Adolf Hitler, Adolf Hitler, Osama bin Laden, and Adolf Hitler.
He challenged exactly zero signatures. Why? He says he ran out of time, poor guy.
He did manage to submit some documentation indicating he wants the GAB to consider the work of a couple of out-of-state Tea Party groups as legitimate challenges to the one million + signatures turned in by recall organizers.
The GAB's reaction to the oddly worded request was simple: "The law does not allow us to do that." Translation: "WTF, Gov?"
Walker had managed to get a judge to grant him 30 days to review the signatures instead of the usual 10, but he still claimed he ran out of time. His spokesperson claimed that "For obvious reasons, the review process is a much more time intensive and grueling process than actually gathering them."
No, seriously. She said that.
In other news, the US Postal Service announced today that reading letters is a lot more grueling and "time intensive" than the process of collecting and distributing them, especially in winter.
Looking up addresses online or making sure people spelled “Oconomowoc” correctly might be repetitive and boring, but it’s not exactly “grueling.” Unless they were working in a meat locker kept at 20 degrees, where strangers walked in randomly to threaten them, break or steal their property, and tell them to fuck off, there is no way that verifying was harder than collecting. For obvious reasons.
I was intrigued by Walker’s excuse, though. He just ran out of time. Brilliant! I am going to suggest to him the next time I see him that he incorporate that into his campaign, though since I spend most of my time in Madison, Wisconsin, the chances of my seeing him are rather slim.
Here are some ads I’ve worked up. They are just prototypes. I am no graphic artist. No charge if you want to use them, Scott.
On second thought, Scott Walker's campaign has over 12 million (mostly) out-of-state dollars to spend. If he wants to use my work, I'm charging him plenty.