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{{#evp[[Image:youtubeLori compas sm 1.jpg|KNlz_rz9cQYframe|Recall petition delivery, Jan. 17, 2012right|left|230}}Lori Compas]]<h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/node/11247 Wisconsin Recall Petitions Under Guard as "GAB CAM" Goes Live11250 One Woman Tackles Walker's Top Lieutenant]</h3>by [[Mary Bottari]]Emily Osborne<br>So many signatures were delivered demanding Lori Compas is the Fort Atkinson woman who almost single-handedly led the grassroots petition drive to recall of 17-year incumbent and Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader [[Scott Fitzgerald]], R-Juneau. Compas started the "Committee to Recall Scott Fitzgerald" after growing frustrations with Fitzgerald's role as top lieutenant to Governor [[Scott Walker]] and other state officials, that one scribe dubbed it the “greatest popular democracy movement in due to his lack of concern for Wisconsin history's middle class families.” Over 30"None of Walker's controversial policies would be in effect today if he didn't have a buddy in the legislature pushing it through,000 volunteers collected over 1" said Compas. With its [http://www.9 million signatures and delivered them to the state’s nonpartisan elections board on January 17alecexposed. Volunteers exceeded all expectationsorg/wiki/ALEC_Exposed ALEC Exposed] project, delivering 1 million petitions for CMD determined that Fitzgerald was the recall former state chair of Scott Walker, an amount equivalent to 46 percent ALEC and is a member of the votes cast in ALEC [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Public_Safety_and_Elections_Task_Force Public Safety and Elections Task Force], which crafted the last gubernatorial racecontroversial Voter ID bill. Never had so manyAs Senate Majority leader, Fitzgerald has played a key role in implementing the history Walker agenda, including Wisconsin's version of Voter ID and [http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/07/10880/alec-bills-wisconsin dozens] more from the United States, petitioned for the recall of a governorALEC playbook. The achievement "is beyond legal challengeJeff Fitzgerald," said Ryan Lawlerhis brother, vice chairman is the Speaker of United the Wisconsin, the group that organized the volunteer effortAssembly. But is it? Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/node/11247 11250 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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[[Image:Finucane.jpg|frame|left|Anne M. Finucane]]<h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/node/11245 Bank of America Hopes to Improve its Image] </h3>by [[Anne Landman]]<br>With its stock scraping bottom at just over $6.00 a share, its image reeling from a failed attempt to to stick its customers with a $5.00 per month debit card fee, and accusations of thousands of fraudulent foreclosures, [[Bank of America]] is undertaking another effort to improve its image. Heading up the makeover attempt is [[Anne Finucane|Anne M. Finucane]], BofA's Global Strategy and Marketing Officer. Ms. Finucane knows better than most the depths of the trouble BofA is in. The ''New York Times'' dubbed her the bank's chief "image officer" and says she and the bank stumbled badly with their failed attempt to impose a $5 monthly debit card fee -- a policy that failed after a massive uprising against the fee by BofA's customers. To her credit, Ms. Finucane says that BofA's damaged reputation "cannot be fixed with just a few new slogans. ... In order to repair reputation, you have to repair the issues that underlie" the problems, she says. But how this behemoth bank is going to improve its image when almost every week there is another story of a wrongful or needlessly cruel foreclosure, such as last week's news that a man was losing his home over an [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/04/bank-of-america-typo-foreclosure_n_1184556.html $.80 cent error,] is anyones guess. BofA spends $1.55 billion/year on marketing in the U.S. alone. Fincucane has reportedly initiated a review of the company's advertising agencies, and selected agencies will be invited to pitch ideas for new marketing strategies to help improve the company's image.
