http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_ce4a1db8-6ad8-11e0-b132-001cc4c03286.htmlAttorneys for the committee seeking a recall election for Sen. Dan Kapanke say there is no legal basis for a challenge the Republican senator filed last week in an effort to dismiss their petition.
Kapanke's attorneys on Friday challenged the petition on the grounds that recall organizer Pat Scheller had not filed campaign finance forms.
A rebuttal filed Tuesday with state election officials claims that argument is based on an artificial distinction between the recall committee, which was registered, and an individual agent acting on its behalf.
The argument is devoid of substance and defies common sense as well as established practice, the rebuttal states. "If there were a glimmer of substance to the argument, it might charitably be deemed to be at the furthest flung edges of hypertechnical, insubstantial potshots."
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