Kleefisch, R

<p><b>Rebecca Kleefisch</b> serves as Wisconsin’s 44th Lieutenant Governor. She was elected Wisconsin’s Lieutenant Governor on November 2, 2010.

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<p>Kleefisch is the first lieutenant governor in U.S. history to face a recall election. She is being opposed by Democrat <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mahlon_Mitchell" title="Mahlon Mitchell">Mahlon Mitchell</a>, a firefighter and union leader. Recall organizers submitted more than 800,000 valid signatures against Kleefisch, well above the 540,208 signatures needed to force her into an election.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rebecca_Kleefisch#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a></sup>

<h2><span class="mw-headline">References</span></h2>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rebecca_Kleefisch#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> DINESH RAMDE, <a href="http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/kleefisch-is-first-lieutenant-governor-to-face-recall/article_ce85097a-af13-11e1-8f17-001a4bcf887a.html?comment_form=true" class="external text" title="http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/kleefisch-is-first-lieutenant-governor-to-face-recall/article_ce85097a-af13-11e1-8f17-001a4bcf887a.html?comment_form=true" rel="nofollow">Kleefisch is first lieutenant governor to face recall</a>, <a href="http://www.host.madison.com" class="external text" title="http://www.host.madison.com" rel="nofollow">Madison.com</a>, June 5, 2012</li>

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<h1 class="title">Rebecca Kleefisch Appears on Show Whose Host Compared Unions to Terrorists, Called for Ellen DeGeneres to Be Fired for Being Gay</h1>

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<div class="submitted">Submitted by Josh Glasstetter on Wed, 03/28/2012 - 10:30am</div>

<p>Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch appeared Monday on the American Family Association (AFA) radio network with host Sandy Rios. AFA, which has been classified a hate group by the <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/american-family-association">Southern Poverty Law Center</a>, recently added Rios to its lineup. 

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<div>Rios <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/201202070001">gained notoriety</a> early last month when an incredulous Bill O’Reilly suggested she was engaging in McCarthyism for calling on J.C. Penney to fire Ellen DeGeneres because she’s gay. Earlier <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sandy-rios-ellen-degeneres-pushing-america-moral-chaos">she wrote</a> that accepting Ellen would lead to “the complete eradication of the traditional family and the acceptance of any sexual choice anyone wants to make.” This month she <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sandy-rios-says-secular-jews-have-been-worst-enemies-country">lamented </a>that “the Jewish vote in this country is so confused” and said that secular Jews have been some of “the worst enemies of the country.”</div>

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<p>This kind of thing is nothing new for Rios, as Kleefisch had to know. Last year, debating the Obama administration contraceptives mandate, Rios <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/08/02/285620/fox-expert-blasts-expanding-access-to-birth-control-are-we-going-to-do-pedicures-and-manicures-as-well/">equated</a> birth control and abuse counseling with pedicures and manicures. She also compared unions and the Obama campaign to a terrorist group, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/201103160010">writing</a> that “Organizing for America, the SEIU, the NEA and many of America’s labor unions have … more in common with the violence and intimidation of Hamas than with protecting ‘workers.’”

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<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rebecca-kleefisch-show-host-compared-unions-terrorists-ellen-degeneres-fired-gay">http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rebecca-kleefisch-show-host-compared-unions-terrorists-ellen-degeneres-fired-gay</a></p>