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<h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/node/11247 Wisconsin Recall Petitions Under Guard as "GAB CAM" Goes Live]</h3>by [[Mary Bottari]]<br>So many signatures were delivered demanding the recall of Wisconsin Governor [[Scott Walker]] and other state officials, that one scribe dubbed it the “greatest popular democracy movement in Wisconsin history.” Over 30,000 volunteers collected over 1.9 million signatures and delivered them to the state’s nonpartisan elections board on January 17. Volunteers exceeded all expectations, delivering 1 million petitions for the recall of Scott Walker, an amount equivalent to 46 percent of the votes cast in the last gubernatorial race. Never had so many, in the history of the United States, petitioned for the recall of a governor. The achievement "is beyond legal challenge," said Ryan Lawler, vice chairman of United Wisconsin, the group that organized the volunteer effort. But is it? Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/node/11247 here.]
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[[Image:Westin kierland accThanksAMilWI2.jpg|210px200px|left|frame|The Westin Kierland Resort & Spa in Scottsdale, AZ]]<h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/node/11231 ALEC and Westin/Starwood: Who is Your Hotel in Bed With While You're in Bed at Your Hotel?11246 One Million Petition for the Recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker]</h3>by Beau Hodai[[Mary Bottari]]<br>Tucson-based civil rights attorney Stacy Scheff believes that Westin Kierland may have violated federal constitutional law when they threw a journalist (The petition drive to recall and paid guest) out into the dead of night--due remove Wisconsin Governor [[Scott Walker]] has surpassed all expectations, collecting over one million signatures in just 60 days. Petitioners were only required to the simple fact that the journalist evicted had written critically of (and was not liked collect 540,000 by) the organization hosting law. They far exceeded this number, making a conference at successful legal challenge of the hotelrecall highly unlikely. (A new story about these events This is available [http://wwwthe largest recall in U.prwatchS.org/news/2012/01/11230/inside-alec-naked-contempt-press-and-public-scottsdale here])history. EssentiallyVolunteers also gathered over 845, Scheff argues, federal law000 signatures to recall Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, which holds the hotel industry under heavy sway as a form well enough signatures for four of interstate commercethe state senators who voted for Walker’s collective bargaining bill in March 2011, provides protections adding hundreds of thousands more petitions to a pile estimated to weigh over one ton. The Governor was not immediately available for certain protected classes under comment. At the moment the Civil Rights Act. As suchrecall petitions were being filed, "viewpoint" (i.e. critical members he was the guest of the press) may well be incorporated as such Citibank on Wall Street at a protected classhigh-dollar recall fundraiser. Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/node/11231 11246 here.]
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[[Image:SmirnoffIcewildgrape.jpg|200px|right]] <h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/node/11212 The Alcohol Industry's Stealth "Joe Camel" Strategy]</h3>by [[Anne Landman]]<br> A new [http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2011.300387 study] published in the January 2012 issue of the A''merican Journal of Public Health'' examines the sophisticated PR and marketing strategies that alcoholic beverage companies have used to re-make the image of distilled spirits to appeal to underage drinkers. The article, "Joe Camel in a Bottle: Diageo, the Smirnoff Brand, and the Transformation of the Youth Alcohol Market," by James Mosher, utilizes a case study of Diageo's Smirnoff brand to illustrate the tactics. Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/node/11212 here].
