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On March 6, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Craig Gilbert headlined, "Recall drives could make history: Rarely have multiple lawmakers faced such action," saying:
After three weeks of street protests, "Wisconsin is about to embark on another wild ride into the political unknown - a series of legislative recall campaigns on a scale the nation has rarely, if ever, seen."
According to Boise State University's Political Science Professor Gary Moncrief:
"I don't think there's a precedent for what's going on in Wisconsin. I don't think there's ever been a case where pretty much everyone has been subject to a recall attempt at one time on both sides. That's really amazing."
He and other experts mentioned only four other times when multiple state lawmakers were recalled at the same time for the same issue:
-- 90 years ago in North Dakota for the governor and two other state officials;
-- two in Idaho in 1971 over a pay raise;
-- two in Michigan in 1983 over a tax vote; and
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