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Greg Herrick recall, Clark County, Wisconsin (2016)
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An effort to recall Greg Herrick in Clark County, Wis., from his position as sheriff was launched in February 2016.[1] The recall did not go to a vote because no signatures were turned in to the county clerk.
Mark Prior filed the petition to recall Herrick on February 22, 2016. He said the sheriff should be recalled because he was not being held accountable. Specifically, Prior condemned Herrick for refusing to enforce the state's Implements of Husbandry law, which regulates the weight of certain agricultural equipment on roads. Herrick has said portions of the law were unconstitutional. He also disagreed with Herrick's lawsuit against members of the county board who questioned his purchase of a nearly $35,000 pickup truck. The board ended up approving the purchase and the suit was dismissed, but Herrick appealed.[2]
Prior ran as a write-in candidate against Herrick in 2010 and received eight votes. He was also in the news in 2010 after he posted a racist sign that read "No Negro's Allowed!!" in downtown Abbotsford, Wis.[2]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Laws governing recall in Wisconsin
The number of valid signatures required to force a recall election was 2,848, which is 25 percent of the number of voters in the last gubernatorial election. Proponents of the recall had 60 days to collect the signatures.[3] The recall effort stalled when signatures were not submitted by the deadline.[4]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Wisconsin Ag Connection, "Clark County Resident Wants to Recall Sheriff Over IoH," February 26, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Marshfield News Herald, "Man who posted racist sign: Recall sheriff," February 23, 2016
- ↑ The Recall Elections Blog, "Wisconsin: Clark County Sheriff facing petitions," February 26, 2016
- ↑ Email from the Clark County Clerk's Office on July 1, 2016
