On the recall petitions, Walker says, 'you should only be able to sign it once and only once.' Walker blasts 'unusual' recall drive

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday attacked the recall process currently underway to unseat him, calling it “unusual” for duplicates and obviously fake names to be allowed on petitions.

“The whole process is pretty unusual. We had one of the local affiliates here [reporting] about someone signing it, proudly saying they signed 80 different recall petitions,” Walker said on “Fox and Friends.” “As we see it, you should only be able to sign it once and only once, and it should be for a legal citizen.”


The Government Accountability Board, the agency which runs the recall process, has said that it will not eliminate duplicates or patently false names such as “Adolf Hitler” or “Mickey Mouse” instead leaving it in the hands of the campaigns, which would have to verify over half a million signatures in 10 days.

The Wisconsin Republican Party has filed a lawsuit to compel the board to check and eliminate these types of signatures.

“We’re going to protect the integrity of the citizen. It should be for people who have every right to sign it, but for those who don’t want to sign it, their voice should count as much as anybody else’s,” the Republican governor said.

Walker also admitted on Fox that he didn’t do enough to make the case for his controversial reforms, which he pushed after entering office earlier this year.

“I looked at it kind of like a small business owner. I said, ‘Here is a problem. Here is a solution. Now just go out there and fix it.’ And what I probably should have done is spend more time laying the ground work, making the case over and over again about how school districts prior to our reforms would have to pay tens of millions of dollars more for things like their health insurance,” he said.

Walker was also frank about how the state was not on track to meet his promise of 250,000 net new jobs by 2015.

“We had 16,000 net new jobs, versus 150,000 lost [over the three years prior]. If you break that down every month, no, it’s not on track. But if you look forward, we figured it would compound. Go back to that sports analogy - if you take over a 1-15 team, they’re not going to the Super Bowl the next year, but if you have a four-year plan, they are. Same thing is true with us,” he said.

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