Rep. Nygren knocked off ballot in Hansen recall election (WI)

[iwishiwas]

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel



Rep. Nygren knocked off ballot in Hansen recall election



By Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel

June 27, 2011 3:01 p.m. |(62) Comments

Madison -- State elections officials Monday took a Republican Assembly lawmaker off the ballot in a recall election against a Democratic senator.

The state Government Accountability Board voted unanimously to leave Rep. John Nygren (R-Marinette) off the ballot in the July 19 recall election for Sen. Dave Hansen (D-Green Bay) in the 30th Senate District. The board found that Nygren fell just short of collecting the 400 valid nominating signatures needed to qualify for the ballot, finding he collected only 398 valid signatures.

The accountability board had initially found that Nygren had submitted 424 qualifying signatures from voters. But after a number of signatures were challenged by Democrats, the accountability board found that 26 of those were invalid.......................

Read more: http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/124611729.html

[a kennedy]

1. Holy crap.....398 valid signatures???/

whew..... that was close, now if we could just get the "fake" dems off the ballot......

[iwishiwas]

2. Because of this callenge there is a a ONE week delay in the primary

and the election (the other 8 are all one week earlier).


.................The general election in the Hansen race will be held July 19. The primary in the Holperin race will be July 19, with a general election Aug. 16.

Read more: http://www.wisn.com/politics/28372809/detail.html#ixzz1QW8vMrH2



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[mopinko]

3. elected before and can't get his petitions in order?

400 signatures? you need more than that to be an alderman here.
how sloppy these people are.

[bongbong]

4. Sloppy pigs

The repigs are sloppy because they're used to living on the Easy Street of Wingnut Welfare, AKA the Petty Cash Drawer of the Koch Kriminal Konspiracy.

[juxtaposed]

6. well put!

[SpiralHawk]

11. Wingnut Welfare (R)

There you have it in a nutshell.

[sybylla]

5. This almost ensures the Dem win.

The only puke left on the ballot has a dodgy past and sketchy personality.

[No Elephants]

9. As long as a real Dem wins, not the fake Dem put up by the Rethugs.

[vanbean]

13. Who is the fake Dem?

[hayrow]

7. Ha

Outside of the Green Bay Bullfrogs baseball field last week at Joanees Park a couple of clean cut white kids, probably in their early twenties, were tring to get signatures for Nygren before the game. We do not live in the district, and my wife did not know who Nygren was or why he was collecting signatures. I told my wife, quite loudly, Nygren is the anal orifice (not really the vocabulary I used) that is trying to replace Dave Hanson. We know Dave and like him. Hopefully the Nygren workers got the message and gave up.

[truthisfreedom]

8. Wow, I bet he's pissed. 2 sigs short?

What an oversight.

[No Elephants]

10. Pissed at whom? This is his responsibility.

[yellowcanine]

12. Collecting 424 to get 400 is a serious miscalculation.

There are always some bad signatures - duplicates etc. People say they are registered in a certain area and are not. He should have collected at minimum 450 to get 400. Getting 398 with only 424 collected is actually sort of a fluke. I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't a few more invalid signatures.