RecallFitz

… will not be forthcoming this week. Or next week. This is an independent effort and we’re not on the same schedule as the Democrats.

Fitz and his team are trying to find ways to challenge our signatures, and those challenges are due on Feb. 9. We will then have only a few days to defend our signatures, if any defense is needed.

Everyone wants a candidate yesterday, but right now my main concern is seeing our signatures safely through the challenge phase.

Thanks for your understanding!

We’re adding to our amazing base of motivated volunteers! Want to help us out?

On Tuesday, January 17, we filed more than 20,600 signatures with the Government Accountability Board. The petition filing was the culmination of two months of serious and difficult work.

Image courtesy of BlueCheddar Blog.

And here’s a video from Arthur Louis:

Thanks to everyone from across the district who braved the snowy roads to join us!

We plan to gather in front of the GAB at 11am tomorrow and take some group photos, and then a few of us will go up to file. After the filing, which should only take a few minutes, we’ll walk somewhere for lunch and a discussion of what comes next. Then we can watch the Walker filing and/or head over to Monona Terrace for the party. Please join us!

Today I was joined by volunteers from across Fitzgerald’s district and Kristin Crowell of We Are Wisconsin to announce that we have gathered more than enough signatures to recall Scott Fitzgerald. Here’s the text of the announcement:

Welcome, and thanks to all of you for coming here this morning. My name is Lori Compas, I live in Fort Atkinson, and I formed the Committee to Recall Scott Fitzgerald.

All of us here today are ordinary people who’ve done an extraordinary thing. We’re here to announce
that together we have exercised our constitutional right and collected more than enough signatures to recall Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald – and we’ll keep going tonight and tomorrow and we will finish this strong.

We took action because over the past year we’ve watched Scott Fitzgerald change from a man who won re-election on a platform of jobs and economic development into a man who was more interested in lining up behind Governor Walker than standing up for us.

We watched him abuse his power.

We watched him betray our trust.

We watched, and we took action. We started this work with no organization and no plan, just the will and the determination of a committed group of people.

I’m so happy to be here with just a few of those people today. Somehow this movement has grown from what some said was a crazy idea into a community of citizens who are taking positive action to regain their voice in the legislature.

We’ve had farmers driving from farm to farm to collect signatures. We’ve had guys camping out in their yard. We’ve had moms looking over city maps like generals, plotting and planning the best canvassing routes. All of us were united by our common belief that government should be responsive to the will of the people.

We’ve developed a diverse, wide-spread community that might not have formed any other way.
Our volunteers are of all ages, from all socio-economic backgrounds, and we hold a wide range of political beliefs. But we hold these things in common:

All of us want to be honorably represented.

All of us want to restore fairness and integrity to the legislature.

And all of us are committed to the difficult and serious task of reclaiming Wisconsin’s proud tradition of open, honest government.

This is a truly grassroots movement, and it’s been my pleasure to guide our volunteers’ efforts. For the past two weeks we’ve been excited to work alongside another grassroots organization, We Are Wisconsin. Their executive director, Kristin Crowell, has joined us today. She’d like to say a few words, and then you’ll hear from two of our volunteers.

And that was that  

I know I said I wouldn’t post any more numbers until January 17, but I can’t resist:

We have 16,000 valid signatures to recall Scott Fitzgerald. We need 16,742 to file, but we sure would like to have a buffer!

Can you help us make history? Mahlon Mitchell will be joining us to canvass Cambridge tonight and we’ll be canvassing all over the district on Friday and Saturday. Please sign up for a shift here!

Join us Wednesday, January 11 for a FitzBlitz in Cambridge! Mahlon Mitchell will be joining volunteers to canvass the Cambridge and Rockdale areas. We’ll meet at 110 West Ridge Circle at 5:30 p.m.

Canvassers will also be departing from the Columbus office  (315 East James Street) for points east at approximately 5:30.

Sign up here to let us know you’ll be coming. Thanks!

We’re so close to our goal and we need YOUR help this weekend! How badly do you want to see Scott Fitzgerald recalled? Give just two hours of your time and join our historic movement: Sign up for a shift now! Don’t forget, everyone who fills up a petition page of 10 signatures earns our exclusive “I helped RECALL FITZ” button!

We were the lead story on the 6 o’clock news on WISC TV last night! Check it out here!

Happy New Year! We’re gearing up for an epic final push. We’ve announced our signature numbers regularly throughout this effort, but those numbers won’t be publicly released again until January 17. Email RecallFitzNow@gmail.com if you want to volunteer to call, canvass, or staff a signing location and be sure to check out our Facebook page.