Following the filing of nomination papers for recall elections on the Tuesday deadline, three candidates for governor and lieutenant governor did not get on the ballot while two had paperwork problems and will still appear on the ballot, assuming they are not contested.
Michael Mangan, a Milwaukee energy engineer, did not collect enough signatures to challenge Gov. Scott Walker in a Republican primary, according to the Government Accountability Board website. Bruce Berman, a Marinette contract truck driver, and Portage resident Dale Paul also did not obtain enough signatures to get on the ballot.
However, after correcting his paperwork for information left off while photocopying the forms, Arthur Kohl-Riggs, a Madison citizen, had 2,182 signatures on his nomination papers to run in a Republican primary, according to the website.
“I plan to utilize my campaign to highlight that even by traditional standards, Scott Walker’s policies are extreme and radical and do not represent the values of [President Abe] Lincoln,” Kohl-Riggs said.
Reid Magney, GAB spokesperson, said Kohl-Riggs filed paper work to correct the copy error to have more than 2,000 signatures threshold needed to get on the ballot.
Magney also said Milwaukee private investigator Ira Robins, who declared his candidacy for lieutenant governor, had a similar problem with signature dates and also has the opportunity to file paperwork to correct the mistake.
Magney added any qualified elector can file challenges against the signatures as long as they do so by Friday at 4:30 p.m. He said a board will make the ultimate decision on the challenges next week.
Robins said the paperwork he plans to file is now due Friday. He said the dates were off by the people who were circulating the nomination papers and the people who circulated the petitions are turning in sworn affidavits to say they circulated the papers on the right days.
Robins said as part of his campaign he is not taking any money from political action committees and is running his campaign out of his own pocket.
“I believe it is so important,” Robins said. “We’ve become enemies, and half the county is against one another.”
Hariprasad Trivedi, a Brookfield physician, also filed his nomination papers to run as an independent in the recall election.
