In his desperation to stay in office, Governor Scott Walker is throwing huge sums of bad money after more bad money. In fact, the only thing he has going for him is moola, most of it from out of state. Well, that, and a "quirk in state law" that enables a politician being targeted with recall to raise unlimited funds while the signatures are being collected and counted.
Walker raised more than $1 million per week from mid-December to mid-January. According to Mike McCabe, director of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, "The governor has raised more than any candidate for any state office in Wisconsin history." And he can continue to raise unlimited funds for another couple of months while the recall signatures are being counted.
Not having any quirks in their favor, Walker's opponents are just not going to be able to compete with him in the fundraising department. But there's a crucial arena in which Walker can't hope to compete with his opponents: people. One million signatures that can be translated to 1 million votes against Scott Walker. Ed Garvey, creator of the Fighting Bob Fest, crows that "that would be like a football team starting on the 30 yard line of the opponent."
Even more important than those 1 million signers are the 30,000 Wisconsinites who worked tirelessly for two months to collect a total of 1.9 million signatures, including more than enough signatures to recall Walker, Lt. Gov. Kleefisch, and four state senators. It's highly unlikely that those 30,000 will retreat to their living room couches for the remainder of the recall fight.