Gov. Scott Walker and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch must be recalled separately, according to a decision by Wisconsin’s attorney general Thursday.
Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced that despite being elected on the same ticket, Walker and Kleefisch must be recalled through signatures from two separate petitions.
The state constitution “provides no exception under which a petition for recall of the governor would be treated as requiring a joint recall election of the governor and lieutenant governor,” Van Hollen wrote in a letter to Government Accountability Board Director Kevin Kennedy.
The state GAB previously came to the same conclusion, but asked Van Hollen to corroborate the decision.
Democratic Party of Wisconsin chairman Mike Tate said in a statement, “This will not impede the process of recalling and replacing Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefisch.”
The Democratic Party of Wisconsin, in concordance with We Are Wisconsin and the Recall Scott Walker campaign, plans to kick off recall efforts with a rally at the state capitol Saturday, Nov. 19.
