Board Recall Effort Fails; Petition Didn't Have Enough Signatures

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New Berlin There will be no referendum on four New Berlin School Board members after a petition drive to force a recall election failed Tuesday.

The recall group, New Berlin United for Strong Schools, did not deliver its recall petitions to the district office by Tuesday's 5 p.m. deadline. Gerianne Prom, one of the group's organizers, said organizers fell "a couple hundred" signatures short of the 5,527 needed to force a recall election on Jennifer Eitel, Matt Weiss, Tim Cramer and Donna Rathsack.

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Board Recall Effort Fails; Petition Didn't Have Enough Signatures

Prom said the recallers' political inexperience and underestimating the number of volunteers needed to collect signatures contributed to the shortcoming. She said recall organizers gathered m...

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