Wisconsin voters will decide recall effort Tuesday

Wisconsin voters, including those in Pierce and Pepin counties, will go to the polls Tuesday to decide the recall election for governor and lieutenant governor.

Candidates for governor are challengers Democrat Tom Barrett and Independent Hari Trivedi, and incumbent Republican Scott Walker.

For lieutenant governor, the candidates are incumbent Republican Rebecca Kleefisch and challenger Democrat Mahlon Mitchell.

Several state senators are also up for recall, but none is from this area.

The recall was prompted by last year’s move by Republicans to strip most public employees of collective bargaining privileges, except to ask for pay raises at or below inflation.

Walker has become the third governor in the nation, and the first in Wisconsin, to face a recall. Kleefisch is the first lieutenant governor to be a recall target.

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