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Delegates from counties throughout Wisconsin marched from the Monona Terrace to the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (GAB) on Tuesday. They presented the GAB with a few representative boxes of petitions out of the almost 2 million total signatures collected (over a million to recall Governor Scott Walker, over 845,000 to recall Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch and enough signatures to recall each of four senators who voted for Walker’s collective bargaining bill in March 2011, for a total of over 3,000 pounds of paper).
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