Lori Compas, responsible for spearheading the recall effort against Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, will run against Fitzgerald in his likely recall election.
A source close to Compas confirmed Sunday she would make the announcement in the town of Jefferson on Tuesday.
Compas, a Fort Atkinson resident and professional photographer, led the effort that gathered 20,600 signatures, but only needs 16,742 valid signatures to force a recall election. After Fitzgerald challenged many of the signatures earlier this month, election officials are now reviewing the challenges.
The Government Accountability Board has until March 19 to declare whether a recall election will be held.
“I welcome a challenge from a Democrat opponent who would only seek to return us to an unsustainable path of big spending, huge tax increases and taxpayer-funded favors to unions and left-wing special interests,” Fitzgerald said in a statement on Jan. 17, the day Compas filed the recall petitions against him.
