Merged signatures plan dropped, so recall effort against Sen. Miller ends [View All]

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Source: madison.com





Merged signatures plan dropped, so recall effort against Sen. Miller ends

DOUG ERICKSON | [e-mail] | 608-252-6149 madison.com | (20) Comments | Posted: Thursday, April 28, 2011 1:15 pm


Organizers of a locally based recall effort against Sen. Mark Miller, D-Monona, announced Thursday they will not merge their signatures with a Utah-based recall effort against the senator and that, consequently, their effort is dead.

Jeff Horn of DeForest, the lead organizer of the local recall effort, said the local effort came up 268 signatures short of the 20,352 needed to trigger a recall election. The group’s 60-day window to collect signatures ran out Tuesday.

The group could legally merge its signatures with a still-open effort to recall Miller by the American Recall Coalition, an offshoot of Americans Against Immigration Amnesty in Salt Lake City. That group has until Wednesday to meet the signature deadline.

But Horn said he’s become increasingly suspicious of the motives of the Utah group’s leader, Dan Baltes, and wants nothing to do with him or his organization. He began researching Baltes online and found troubling news articles and blog posts, he said.....

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further into the article is says it does not look like enough sigs will be on file by next Wed.


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