How Facebook Helped To Oust Wisconsin Governor
Facebook gets some amount of credit in the campaign to oust Wisconsin's Republican Governor Scott Walker, given the overwhelming response to the petition drive that concluded this week.
Facebook gets some amount of credit in the campaign to oust Wisconsin’s Republican Governor Scott Walker, given the overwhelming response to the petition drive that concluded this week.
State Democrats were successful in generating more than 1 million signatures, far greater than the 540,000 needed to initiate the recall. United Wisconsin, the group behind the effort, manages the “I Love Wisconsin” Facebook page.
They claimed victory in a post calling the effort “the largest recall in American history.”
Last summer, Walker came to our attention when protests broke out after he tried to ban the collective bargaining rights of state workers.
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