Well, June 5 is finally here, Wisconsin — recall election day. It’s a relief. It’s nerve-wracking. We want the bitter political scrimmage of the past year and a half to end. We want to know whether Gov. Scott Walker will be recalled. But we sure don’t want to come out on the losing side. The losing side is going to be miserable.

The celebrations and lamentations will be plenteous, but hopefully the victors won’t gloat and the vanquished won’t do anything rash. Perhaps in time we can all agree we’ve learned a few things from the experience.

First of all, we really need to revise our recall statute so only state officials who commit some act of malfeasance can be recalled. When a minority of voters can trigger 15 recall elections in the space of 12 months just because they’re mad, we all suffer. Lawmakers can’t work for us when they’re campaigning. The threat of a recall motivates them to play it safe rather than ever upset a special interest group. Employers sit on their hands until they know which business laws are going to stay or go. And recalls cost millions of taxpayer dollars that would be better spent on government services.