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PAPERS FILED FOR RECALLS OF JAUCH AND SCHULTZ
WPR News - Papers filed for recalls of Jauch and Schultz
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Monday March 19, 2012
by Gilman Halsted
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A Milwaukee-based conservative group has filed papers to recall State Senators Bob Jauch and Dale Schultz. Activists leading the effort say the two senators ignored the need for jobs when they opposed a mining bill that would have streamlined the permitting process.
The group Citizens for Responsible Government is backing the recalls. Shirl LaBarre, a plumber from Hayward in Senator Jauch's district, says Jauch's effort to craft a compromise bill that maintained many of the state's anti pollution regulations was a slap in the face to his constituents who need the good paying jobs a proposed iron ore mine might have brought, "The compromise was not a compromise. It was my way or the highway. I run a plumbing business . My plumbing business is down to nil. Mining is our history, it's our culture and it's our future, well he just threw that down the toilet, and that's coming from a plumber."
La Barre says it won't be hard to gather the 15 thousand signatures needed to recall Jauch. But the Senator says he's confident he did the right thing and that voters will fend off the effort to replace him, "The majority of citizens would support a responsible mine up in this area, But where they disagree with Shirl La Barre and they agree with me is that the same citizens want a responsible mining law."
Jauch's Republican partner in the mining compromise Dale Schultz says he's not worried about the recall effort against him, "As far as I am concerned there's really nothing new here. I am comfortable with the way I voted and my constituents are saying I did the right thing and they're proud of me."
Meanwhile Senator Jauch has called on the Governor to appoint a bipartisan panel on drafting a new compromise mining bill.
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