With the Walker/Kleefisch recall underway, we need to continue building on the early momentum and keep on mobilizing.
Join with us in gathering recall petitions on Saturday, December 3rd. Activists will gather for some coffee and donuts, a brief training, and then head out in teams to set up at high-traffic areas to get recall petitions signed.
We’ll provide all the materials, from petitions and clipboards to directions to assigned locations. You just need to show up ready to build on our early successes in the recall.
While you’re at it, you may as well bring along a friend to help!
We are running the event twice — once at 9 a.m and once at noon, so come at whatever time is more convenient for you.
WHEN: Saturday 12/3 from 9am-3pm
WHERE: MTEA Offices 5130 W. Vliet Street, MKE
Friends,
The recall effort is off to a good start. Last weekend our Wauwatosa Office sent out about 25 petition circulators who collected more than 1,100 signatures for Scott Walker’s recall!
Now, imagine if we had 100!
Continue reading Let’s make it a Black Friday for Scott Walker
Do you want to help with the recall but can’t circulate petitions? There are other ways to help.
Continue reading Recall Workers needed
 Grassroots Tosa, along with thousands of Wisconsinites, is working to recall Governor Scott Walker and Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch. When elected, Scott Walker had the choice to represent all the people of Wisconsin, but he chose to govern from an extremist agenda taking away hard fought rights and programs that made Wisconsin a leader in innovation and shared prosperity. He lied to voters, never indicating he would move to take away the collective bargaining rights of 175,000 public employees. These and other policies of his extremist agenda warrant his recall:
- Walker’s pledge to create 250,000 jobs is projected to fall short by one-half the number of jobs by 2014, according to the Wisconsin Department of Revenue
- Cutting $1.6 billion in public education (Largest education cut in the U.S. and expected to adversely affect 88 percent of Wisconson’s school districts)
- Devastating cuts to health care programs, making it more difficult for seniors and 50,000 low income residents to access health care, including a proposed cut to Medicaid affecting 65,000 state residents
- Raising taxes on seniors and working families by $70 million, while giving tax cuts to corporations and the wealthiest residents
- Increasing tuition for college students and making massive cuts to the UW and technical college system when education and training are critical to landing a job
- Killing high-speed rail, thus losing thousands of high paying jobs
- Supporting a voter ID law that will disenfranchise over 200,000 Wisconsin voters
- Refusing to defend the state’s domestic partnership registry denying basic civil rights to same sex couples
- Trying to repeal phosphorus and clean water laws making it easier for corporate polluters to destroy Wisconsin’s clean environment
- Consolidating power over state agencies, undermining the oversight of key government functions, such as department of commerce, administration, health services, justice, transportation, and veteran affairs
Scott Walker is bad for Wauwatosa
Governor Scott Walker and the Republican Party agenda are hurting the schools and municipal services of Wauwatosa that we have spent generations building up and depend upon daily. Our teachers are giving up $5 million in wages and benefits this year and next year’s school budget will be cut by $7 million threatening major layoffs of teachers across the district as well as undermining our quality of education. The city of Wauwatosa is currently losing $917,000 in state aid, and even after a $643,000 contribution on workers’ compensation, faces cuts of $243,000 to recycling and other services. And, the budget takes away local control over important financial decisions in our community.
Recall Scott Walker!
Scott Walker has given us no choice but to exercise our constitutional rights to recall him and his Lieutenant Governor from office and return state government back to the citizens of Wisconsin.
From our friends at Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort (http://waveedfund.org/):
You did it! The measure to keep guns out of Tosa’s public buildings passed out of committee and will be voted on by the full Common Council. And according to the news reports, this victory was driven by the scores of messages from supporters like you.*
The final vote is on Tuesday Oct. 2, and your voice, and the voices of your family and friends, will be critical to ensuring the Council votes on the side of public safety.
Email your council members before Tuesday’s vote and tell them to keep guns OUT of Tosa’s library and other public buildings!
After you’ve let the Common Council know where you stand, you can take one more crucial step: Forward this message to your Tosa friends and family and urge them to add their voices to yours.
Thanks for standing up for the safety of this town. When we work together, we can make a crucial difference when our public safety comes under attack.
In Peace,
Jeri Bonavia
Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort
* “Tosa drafts weapons ban for its municipal buildings,” Wauwatosa Now, Stepanie Scott, Sept. 28 2011
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