The group organizing the recall campaign against state Sen. Jim Holperin, D-Conover, said they plan to file their petition with the necessary signatures with the Government Accountability Board by the end of the week.
If they are able to collect the nearly 16,000 required signatures to set off a recall election and submit it before April 25, Holperin will become the fifth state senator and first Democrat this year to potentially face a recall election.
Petitions against state Sens. Dan Kapanke, R-La Crosse, and Randy Hopper, R-Fond du Lac, were submitted with the GAB at the beginning of the month, and recall campaigns against state Sens. Luther Olsen, R-Ripon, and Sheila Harsdorf, R-River Falls, filed their papers in the last couple of days.
Kim Simac, founder of Northwood Patriots and organizer of Holperin's recall, said at the Tea Party rally Saturday that Wisconsin has become a place ""where cowards are called heroes.""
