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[[Image:ThanksAMilWI2.jpg|200px|left]]<h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/node/11246 One Million Petition for the Recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker]</h3>by [[Mary Bottari]]<br>The petition drive to recall and remove Wisconsin Governor [[Scott Walker]] has surpassed all expectations, collecting over one million signatures in just 60 days. Petitioners were only required to collect 540,000 by law. They far exceeded this number, making a successful legal challenge of the recall highly unlikely. This is the largest recall in U.S. history. Volunteers also gathered over 845,000 signatures to recall Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, as well enough signatures for four of the state senators who voted for Walker’s collective bargaining bill in March 2011, adding hundreds of thousands more petitions to a pile estimated to weigh over one ton. The Governor was not immediately available for comment. At the moment the recall petitions were being filed, he was the guest of Citibank on Wall Street at a high-dollar recall fundraiser. Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/node/11246 here.]
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[[Image:ThanksAMilWI2.jpg|200px|left]]<h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/node/11246 One Million Petition for the Recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker]</h3>by [[Mary Bottari]]<br>The petition drive to recall and remove Wisconsin Governor [[Scott Walker]] has surpassed all expectations, collecting over one million signatures in just 60 days. Petitioners were only required to collect 540,000 by law. They far exceeded this number, making a successful legal challenge of the recall highly unlikely. This is the largest recall in U.S. history. Volunteers also gathered over 845,000 signatures to recall Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, as well enough signatures for four of the state senators who voted for Walker’s collective bargaining bill in March 2011, adding hundreds of thousands more petitions to a pile estimated to weigh over one ton. The Governor was not immediately available for comment. At the moment the recall petitions were being filed, he was the guest of Citibank on Wall Street at a high-dollar recall fundraiser. Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/node/11246 here.]
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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: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].
