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Article: Wisconsin Senate Recall Effort Falls Short
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 4, 1997
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Abortion foes today failed to collect enough petition
signatures to force a recall vote on Wisconsin's two Democratic U.S.
senators.
A Milwaukee-based organization called First Breath Alliance
presented the petitions, collected over a 60-day period, at state
election headquarters in Madison but announced it had fallen several
thousand signatures short.
The group said it had 349,948 signatures to recall Sen.
Russell Feingold and 343,494 against Sen. Herb Kohl. A total of
391,000 signatures were required against each senator to force a
recall.
"Obviously there was a groundswell of support," said alliance
founder Norbert Nicholas, a Cedarburg, Wis., insurance executive.
"We believe ...