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Walker Opponents Plagued By Threats, Thefts
Sun Prairie Police Open Investigation
SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. -- Opponents of Gov. Scott Walker said they have faced threats and thefts in the days since the recall effort began.
Two volunteers in the petition drive reported violent threats made against them to the police. Neighbors in Monona also complained to authorities of politically motivated thefts from their yards.
The threats involved phone calls from an area code in Minnesota. The calls came overnight after Walker's opponents began the recall, said Tom Peer, who received a call at 2 a.m. Thursday.
"They said, 'If you don't stop circulating recall petitions, we will kill you,'" said Peer, of Madison. A similar call came to Heather DuBois Bourenane of Sun Prairie. The United Wisconsin recall worker jumped out of bed when her phone rang around 4 a.m. Thursday.
"He said I had attracted the attention of some very bad people, and my life and the lives of my family were in danger," DuBois Bourenane said. She called Sun Prairie Police, who confirmed investigators were working on the case.
The male voice's number came from the Minneapolis area. WISC-TV called that number Sunday, but the calls went straight to voicemail and the message service hadn't been activated.
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Recall Walker Rally at Capitol Draws 25,000 to 30,000
Huge crowds show up Saturday as recall organizers announce they've collected more than 100,000 signatures on petitions.
“As of (Friday) night — the fourth day of signature collection, more than 105,000 Wisconsin residents have already signed their name to a petition to recall Scott Walker," said Heather DuBois Bourenane, a volunteer with United Wisconsin, the group spearheading the recall effort. "Across the state, people are talking with their friends, family and neighbors about Walker’s destruction and are doing all they can to end his days as governor."
Organizers need to collect 540,000 signatures by Jan. 17 to force a recall election. United Wisconsin, which is working with the Democratic Party of Wisconsin on the recall effort, says it hopes to gather between 600,000 and 700,000 signatures by that deadline.
The news came as a crowd estimated at between 25,000 and 30,000 attended the Madison rally, the largest gathering since the huge Capitol protests in March, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
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