THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW - January 19, 2012

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*-- Top Dem: Walker 'lied' to govern Wisconsin --*
MADISON, Wis. - Republican Scott Walker "lied" to win Wisconsin's governorship and should be ousted, the state's top Democrat said as his party prepared to force a recall vote.

"I think that he fundamentally lied to the people of Wisconsin when he ran for governor," state Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate told WISN-TV, Milwaukee, as the party prepared to deliver more than 720,000 signatures Tuesday calling for a recall election -- about 18,000 more than required.

"He didn't talk to them or tell them about how he was going to govern," Tate said. "He didn't tell them he was going to give a big tax break to millionaires and billionaires and raise taxes on the working poor."

This is in addition to Walker's curtailment of collective-bargaining rights for public workers last year, which led to weeks of mass protests, including an occupation of the state capitol building, Tate told the TV station.

The bargaining-rights curtailment -- which Walker said was needed to close a projected $3.6 billion deficit in the coming two-year budget -- became the leading edge of a wider fight over public workers and collective bargaining in statehouses elsewhere, including Ohio, Michigan, Iowa and Indiana.

Recall organizers need 540,208 valid signatures, or a quarter of the November 2010 votes cast that put Walker in office last January, to force a recall vote. The election would also give voters a change to remove Republican Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and four Republican senators.

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