DEFOREST, Wis. — DeForest Village Trustee Bill Landgraf was at the forefront of the successful push to remove fluoride from the village’s drinking water. Soon, he will face the possibility of being removed from his post.
The Village Board will vote Tuesday to call a recall election of Landgraf. Materials for the board’s regular monthly meeting show that a recall petition garnered 1516 valid signatures, well over the 1392 needed to initiate a recall.
The petition was reviewed by Village Clerk Calli Lundgren, and a resolution to call a recall is being recommended for approval. The recall election is expected to be scheduled for Sept. 16.
Efforts to recall Landgraf began earlier this year following a narrow vote by the Village Board to remove fluoride from the village’s drinking water. Landgraf and Green Bay anti-fluoride activist Brenda Staudenmaier were active in the push for removal.
Staudenmaier was part of a 2024 lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency in which a judge found that the recommended amount of fluoride in drinking water presents “an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment.” The lawsuit cited information from a National Toxicology Program report that was later discredited by both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Dental Association.
Landgraf is accused of intimidating and acting disrespectfully toward village residents who don’t agree with him, accusations he denied in a statement to News 3 Now in June.
Tuesday’s Village Board meeting is set to begin at 6 p.m.
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