I know canvassing is one of the worst jobs in the whole world, but I'm actually jealous that you're there and able to be involved! What great news about how many signatures have already been collected! I've always thought that gathering the signatures would be the "easy" part, and that winning the recall election would be the tough part. Are there literally NO candidates to run against him yet? I'm sure you're right about a lot of people having a similar mindset as you in that they will vote for anyone against Walker. I just can't believe no one has stepped up to run against him! This seems like such a great opportunity with a pretty good chance of winning given how many people already hate the opposition! What's Feingold up to these days?? I seriously doubt that many, if any, of the people who sign the petition don't already have their minds made up about who they'll vote for without even knowing who the Dem candidate will be, but the number of signatures required isn't quite the number of votes needed to win, which is too bad. What ever happened with that sketchy republican redistricting?
On a related note, T and I have come to the extremely disappointing realization that we will be ineligible to vote in the recall election! :( In order to maintain our WI residency we would have to say that we're temporarily abroad rather than permanently abroad, and that would require us to pay WI taxes on income we're earning in Europe (well for now what Terry's earning...), which seems like a bunch of baloney. T and I both care a lot about the recall election, but not quite enough to have to file a WI tax return because of it that we otherwise wouldn't have to file. At least we'll get to vote in the 2012 presidential election, which is really the big ticket. I think voting for president is the only thing we'll be eligible to vote on, which is crap as I've always been super involved in elections and done my research and voted on every measure, but I guess I've also never been a legal resident in another country and therefore so little affected by what happens on the state level. Still...more participation would be nice. Oh well.
On a related note, T and I have come to the extremely disappointing realization that we will be ineligible to vote in the recall election! :( In order to maintain our WI residency we would have to say that we're temporarily abroad rather than permanently abroad, and that would require us to pay WI taxes on income we're earning in Europe (well for now what Terry's earning...), which seems like a bunch of baloney. T and I both care a lot about the recall election, but not quite enough to have to file a WI tax return because of it that we otherwise wouldn't have to file. At least we'll get to vote in the 2012 presidential election, which is really the big ticket. I think voting for president is the only thing we'll be eligible to vote on, which is crap as I've always been super involved in elections and done my research and voted on every measure, but I guess I've also never been a legal resident in another country and therefore so little affected by what happens on the state level. Still...more participation would be nice. Oh well.
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