"So It Begins......"

For those of you not from Wisconsin, this may not interest you, but for Wisconsinites, this IS a big deal. The Recall of our current governor, Scott Walker began this past week. The permission to begin the recall was given mid week, and various groups of people held parties and began signing recall petitions a minute after midnight of the start day......we, however, held off until Friday's Happy Hour, when a neighbor, Mary, brought hers over for those interested to sign. I wasn't the first to sign it, but since it gets dark so early these days, I brought it inside to fill them out in better light. ;)

After I did that, Don brought out a lantern so that people could see the petitions better. I should have mentioned that Governor Walker is not the only person being recalled, but the Lt. Governor, Rebecca Kleefisch, is also, hopefully, going to be recalled as well.

Bobby and Annie, neighbors from down the block, stopped by to sign them, when they heard Mary had brought her recall petition to Happy Hour. Jyothi, another neighbor who signed earlier, looks on.......

The following afternoon, a Recall Walker Rally was held downtown around the Capitol. The "official" estimate was around 30,000 people, but I'm not sure how accurate that was. It seemed to Don and me that there were many more than that, but who knows, eh? As you can see, someone brought their "palm tree" which alludes to when Fox News showed a video of a group of unruly protestors this past winter and said it was here in Madison.....in the background of the video were numerous palm trees lining the street on which the protestors were marching. "Not quite" an outdoor tree here in Madison.

The Madison Firefighters Pipe and Drum made another appearance. They played numerous times during the protests this past winter, too.

Many people got quite creative with their signs and outfits.........

We ran into former neighbors Travis and Sara, with sons Jonas and Niles.

As I said.....many creative outfits........

I wonder what Abe would have said..........

This one definitely took a bit of work, eh?

We also ran into and chatted with another neighbor, Elspeth.

Jyothi, with boyfriend, Khaled, were there with Jyothi's parents, Terry and Roy, too.

The petitioner's have 60 days to gather over 540,00 valid voter signatures. Time will tell if this is accomplished........