{"id":1091,"date":"2011-08-10T11:48:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T15:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2011-08-10T11:50:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T15:50:10","slug":"wisconsins-recall-better-for-the-good-guys-than-it-looks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2011\/08\/wisconsins-recall-better-for-the-good-guys-than-it-looks.html","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin&#8217;s recall: Better for the good guys than it looks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those like myself who consider the Tea Party and its allies to be a mortal danger to this country through their combination of religious bigotry, hostility to feminine values, and almost mindless service to the corporate oligarchy, yesterday\u2019s failure to recall three Republican State Senators was a disappointment. Only two out of the needed three were ousted.<\/p>\n<p>But it should not be a big disappointment.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Think Progress\u00a0 has a <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2011\/08\/10\/292471\/the-loophole-that-saved-walker\/\" target=\"_blank\">good piece<\/a> explaining that Tuesday&#8217;s \u00a0failure was in no small part due to a detail in Wisconsin\u2019s recall legislation: recalls can only happen after the official has been in office for a year. \u00a0This is why Governor Scott Walker has not been recalled.\u00a0 The Republican class in the Senate consists of two groups, those who survived Obama\u2019s large victory and accompanying coat tails in 2008, which means they were in very Republican districts,\u00a0 and those who came in with the Republican tide in 2010, which means from far more competitive districts.<\/p>\n<p>Because Wisconsin\u2019s recall law requires those being recalled to have served a minimum of a year before being challenged, none of the most vulnerable Republicans were in yesterday\u2019s vote. They enjoy the same buffer that the Governor does, becoming vulnerable this winter.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, two long time Republican districts that survived the 2008 Democratic surge went to the Democratic challenger.<\/p>\n<p>This does not bode well for Governor Walker when he gets his own challenge in a few months, and it would be hard to find a more deserving target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those like myself who consider the Tea Party and its allies to be a mortal danger to this country through their combination of religious bigotry, hostility to feminine values, and almost mindless service to the corporate oligarchy, yesterday\u2019s failure to recall three Republican State Senators was a disappointment. 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