Recall Everywhere: Washburn County small but determined


This story ran 12/8/2011 on Dane101.com

The Recall Scott Walker headquarters for the county is located in Spooner, a town of about 2,600 people, and the largest municipality in the county. It is a small, donated camper parked on a donated portion of a family’s residential lot along the main highway through town.

Volunteers staff the trailer for two two-hour shifts each weekday, and a four-hour shift on Saturdays. They wear orange vests and stand by the fence, near a donated, professionally-made “Sign here” banner. Now that it’s getting dark early, someone else donated old-fashioned floodlights to keep the station visible.

“We lay them in the snow and point them up,” says Sue Hansen, the head of the Washburn County Democrats, and coordinator of the county’s recall effort. “It works pretty well.”

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