This story ran on 6/7/2012 on Dane101.com

Lori Compas supporters will tell you that she put up “a hell of a fight.” The Fort Atkinson photographer, who decided to recall Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald despite the Democrats’ initial decision not to, collected 20,000 signatures using her living room as a headquarters. Then, as a political novice who had to transform her very wardrobe for the effort, she ran for his seat.

Compas’ campaign quickly became the face of the grassroots branch of the statewide recall campaign. On January 17, at a rally celebrating the delivery of millions of petition signatures to the Government Accountability Board headquarters, Compas–not scheduled to speak–was still forced to take the stage because the chanting and applause at the very mention of her name was so intense. She had both independents and Republicans rooting for her.

And she lost. (read full text)