Uppity Wisconsin

Golly! Is Wisconsin Attorney General J. B. Van Hollen a crazy socialist, or WHAT?

He has allocated more than $700,000 to continue funding "Drug Endangered Children Teams" for Methamphetamine abuse in the state. Go figure.

Of course, this problem was originally pursued aggressively in the Cheese State by the remarkable former AG Peggy Lautenschlager. Nice follow-up though ... as long as it leads to rehabilitation over crazy convictions.

The first thing you'd have to do to recall Wisconsin Attorney General J. B. Van Hollen is file a campaign registration statement with intent to recall with the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board Elections Division.

Next, you need signatures from 25% of the people who voted in the 2006 gubernatorial election in Wisconsin. That number was around 2,159,251, so 25% of that is 539,813 signatures.

You'd need a fracking boatload of well-organized volunteers to meet the 60-day deadline requirement from the time you filed the intent to recall.

Then the filing officer at GAB has 31 days to determine if the signatures collected are sufficient to meet all the legal requirements.

After those 31 days, Van Hollen has 10 days to challenge those signatures. You'd actually want the boatload of volunteers to collect at least 600,000 to make the entire effort bulletproof.