RE: Stop The Never-ending Elections

I was disappointed in Viewpoint Editor, Caleb Brown, and his lack of insight as to the complexity of the recalls that have been happening statewide, especially the effort to recall Scott walker and Rebecca Kleefisch. So many issues have warranted the recall of Governor Walker and Lt. Governor Kleefisch. It was warranted for the thousands of public sector workers who lost their rights to collective bargaining, and for the damaging state budget bill that cut so much from education and the UW System. It is certainly warranted now with the ongoing John Doe investigation into unethical and illegal practices within the Walker administration. Scott Walker is leading Wisconsin in the wrong direction and one million Wisconsinites agreed by joining a historic movement to oust the governor.

While Mr. Brown thinks that Americans can "barely handle" elections when they come around regularly and Wisconsinites are engaging in recall elections to "keep ourselves occupied," this is a movement that has engaged many people from all different backgrounds in the political process, regardless of  political affiliation. Recalls are part of the political process. They make them difficult in order to discourage citizens from using them whenever they dislike a politician for normal partisan differences. Scott Walker and the political attitude in Wisconsin don't fit that description. Mr. Brown should take a second to look around at all the people in his life who have been affected negatively by Scott Walker's policies; maybe when his program here at UW-L gets cut due to lack of funding or his favorite professor decides to move to a state that pays better or his peers drop out of college because they can't afford to go anymore, he will realize that these recall elections are the only thing we have to help Wisconsin move forward.