August Primary Elections Today
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014 -- 8:24 AM
-Candidates in a four-way Republican primary to help determine who will succeed retiring U.S. Rep. Tom Petri and the three Democrats squaring off in the attorney general's race are making a final push for votes.The two races are the highest profiled on today's primary ballot. The winners will advance to the Nov. 4 general election.
Candidates in dozens of state, regional and local races were making a last push yesterday for votes. With turnout predicted to be just 15 percent, candidates who can get their base of support to show up will have an advantage.
Five of the eight congressional districts have primary races, as well as five of the 17 state Senate districts and 26 of the 99 Assembly districts.
Some of the biggest contested races for our area include the democratic primary race for Governor between Brett Hulsey and Mary Burke, the democratic primary for Lt. Governor between John Lehman and Mary Jo Walters and the democratic primary between Attorney General candidates Ismael Ozanne, Jon Richards and Susan Happ.
There?s also the democratic primary for State Treasurer between Dave Leeper and David Sartori, the republican primary for State Treasurer between Matt Adamczyk and Randal Melchert and republican primary for Secretary of State between Garey Bies and Julian Bradley.
Finally, in Clark County, we have the republican primary for county sheriff between current sheriff Greg Herrick and Dorchester Police Chief, Gary Leichtman. The winner of the primary will face democratic candidate Scott Haines on November 4th.
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