State Rep. Jennifer Shilling (D-La Crosse) announced her candidacy Saturday to run in a potential recall election against incumbent state Sen. Dan Kapanke (R-La Crosse).
Volunteers collected 22,561 signatures in a bid to force the recall in the wake of Gov. Scott Walker’s collective bargaining bill. Kapanke supported the measure.
For the election to be triggered, 15,588 signatures must be verified.
Shilling is about as strong a candidate as we could hope for – and it’s a great opportunity for her, since she gets to take a free shot at Kapanke while keeping her seat. Hopefully this means we’ll have other similarly strong recruits from the state House in our other recall efforts. Also, this is a pretty big vote of confidence by Shilling in the quality of the signatures, which I’m guessing will stand up to scrutiny. Game on!
P.S. Click here for Jennifer Shilling‘s Assembly campaign site, which I’m guessing will get updated soon.