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osts for holding the recall election for state Sen. Sheila Harsdorf's 10th Senate District seat totaled at least $113,500 for the five counties in her district, according to county clerks. The total cost of the recall is even higher, given that the reported figure counts only the cost to the counties and not the amount each municipality with a polling location spent during Tuesday's recall election and the July 12 primary. Harsdorf, R-River Falls, retained her seat Tuesday by defeating Ellsworth schoolteacher Shelly Moore, a River Falls Democrat, tallying 58 percent of the vote compared with 42 percent for Moore....

[Madison] - The Republican Party of Wisconsin filed a verified complaint with the Government Accountability Board today against Shelly Moore for knowingly violating state law by using taxpayer funded resources for political activity. Moore, a public school teacher and WEAC union leader, is challenging incumbent candidate Sheila Harsdorf in the 10th senate district recall election. Several overtly political emails were turned over to the Republican Party of Wisconsin following an open records request into Moore’s official Ellsworth School District email account. Moore explicitly states in one exchange: “We’re not supposed to use school email, but since all of our rights...