Election News from Yesterday's Results
Tuesday, April 14th, 2020 -- 1:35 PM
-Taking a look at some election results:Joe Biden won in Clark County with 2,036 votes, followed by Bernie Sanders with 682 votes. For other former candidates on the ballot, Gabbard 16, Klobuchar 33, Delaney 2, Patrick 2, Yang 7, Buttigieg 15, Steyer 6, Warren 25, Bennet 7, Bloomberg 54 and 24 for uninstructed. Donald Trump received 4,074 votes and there were 48 for uninstructed. Clark County also voted for District 4 Court of Appeals. The only candidate was Rachel Graham and she received 5,188 votes. For Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice, Daniel Kelly received 4,186 to Jill Karofsky’s 2,834. For the Marsy’s Law Amendment, Clark County voted 4,766 yes and 1,827 no. For the Clark County Board of Supervisor in District 19, Gordon Haselow was unseated by Dave Williams 147 votes to 131. For County Board of Supervisor District 24, Butch Trunkel retained his seat with 199 votes to Rhonda Witte’s 118. For the remaining Board Members, Kevin Flink (District 1) received 202 votes, 175 for Gary Leichtman (District 2), 176 for Fred Schindler (District 3), 133 for Tom Wilcox (District 4), 228 for Nancy Amacher (District 5), 137 for Joe Waichulis (District 6), 213 for Dean Zank (District 7), 209 for Arlene Kodl (District Eight), nobody ran and no write ins were offered for the District 9 seat, 137 for Bryce Luchterhand (District 10), 238 for Scott Jalling (District 11), 142 for Art Petke (District 12), 251 for Al Bower (District 13), 258 for Jerome Krempasky (District 14), 295 for Sharon Rogers (District 15), 173 for Wayne Hendrickson (District 16), 161 for Chuck Rueth (District 17), 131 for Noel Olsen (District Eighteen), 158 for Allen Krause (District 20), 188 for Frieda Rollins (District 21), 250 for Jim Smagacz (District 22), 210 for Duane Boon (District 23), 242 for Kenneth Gerhardt (District 25), 225 for Doris Bakker (District 26), 215 for Fritz Garbisch (District 27), 276 for Bill Neville (District Twenty-Eight), and 239 for Randy Sebesta (District 29).
For the CVTC Referendum, Clark County voted 2,427 yes to 1,781 no. For the Abbotsford School District, both candidates (Erin Brodhagen and James Hirsch) moved forward with 312 and 268 votes respectively. For the Colby School District, the top two vote getters were Jean Schmitt with 441 and Cheryl Ploeckelman with 424, so they will move forward. The third candidate, Craig Oehmichen was eliminated with 371 votes. The Greenwood School Referendum also passed with 530 voting yes and 340 voting no. Mark Shain was running unopposed for the Greenwood School Board and received 800 votes. For the Loyal School Board in the City of Loyal, there were two write-in candidates. Kim Bremmer received 15 votes at Kevin Klimpke received 0. Tom Odeen and Harlan Hinkelmann were both running unopposed for the Loyal School Board and received 561 and 536 votes. For the Neillsville School Board, the top two vote getters were Paul Opelt with 946 and Deanna Heiman received 930. Jake Brunette was eliminated with 911 votes. For the Owen-Withee School Board, Dean Schmelzer and Charlie Milliren were running unopposed and received 666 and 638 votes respectively. For the Thorp School District, all three candidates (Clint Klapatauskas, Amy Peterman and Jeanette Kodl) moved on receiving 570, 597 and 604 votes respectively.
For the Village of Unity Trustee, the top 3 vote getters were Jake Lucht with 17, Josh Bauer with 16 and Brian Michlin with 14 with all three moving on. Ryan Maldonis was eliminated with 12 votes. The City of Neillsville has a new mayor with Diane Murphy receiving 320 votes to Dewey Poeschel’s 271. For the City of Neillsville and the 3rd Ward Alderperson, Dave Harnisch received 98 votes to Rick Buchsteiner’s 64. For the City of Owen and Ward 2 Alderperson, Bob Wilczek received 42 votes to Daniel Hook’s 13 votes. For the Clark County districts that voted for Alma Center, Merillan, Humbird School District, both candidates (Shelley Janke and Richard Larson) moved forward with 90 and 84 votes respectively. Overall for the Alma Center, Merillan, Humbird School District race, Janke received 366 votes and Larson received 368. For the Clark County districts voting in the Black River Falls School District, all 3 candidates (Ann Dehmer, Scott Barton and Troy Webb) moved forward with 12, 15 and 14 votes respectively. Overall for the Black River Falls School District, Dehmber, Barton and Webb received 1,641, 1,622 and 1,550 votes. For the Clark County districts that voted for the Marshfield School District, the top two vote getters were Mark Konrardy with 120 votes to Dorothy Chaney’s 73. Dan Neve only received 50 votes. Over all, Mark Konrardy and Dan Neve moved forward with 3,690 votes and 2,867 votes. Dorothy Chaney was eliminated with 2,573 votes. For the Clark County districts that voted for the Osseo-Fairchild the one candidate running for the open seat (Kris Bertrand) received 40 votes. For the referendums, they did not approve the first question with 35 no votes and 19 yes votes and they did not approve the second question with 28 voting no and 26 voting yes. Overall, for the Osseo-Fairchild school board Bertrand received 655 votes and both referendums passed with 559 voting yes and 491 voting no for the first one. 903 voted yes and 466 voted no for the second one. For the Clark County district voting for the Pittsville School District, the top two vote getters were Nathan Bowden with 50 and Melissa Marti with 40. Mandy Hoogesteger and Julie Strenn received 39 and 37 votes. Overall, Bowden and Hoogesteger moved one with 800 and 547 votes respectively. Marti and Strenn were eliminated with 488 and 516 votes respectively. Clark County voters approved the referendum with 51 yes votes and 47 no votes. Overall, the referendum was approved 746 yes to 623 no. For the Clark County districts voting for the Spencer School Board, the top two vote getters are Joe Burnett with 81 votes and Jodi Hebert with 66 votes. Shawn Lyon received 27. Overall, Burnett and Lyon advanced with 614 and 455 votes. Hebert was eliminated with 454 votes. For the Clark County Districts that voted in the Stanley-Boyd School District, for Area 2, 3 and 4, candidates Denise Hoffstatter, Robert Geist, Mike Henke and Toni Seidl received 104, 105, 27 and 89 votes respectively. Overall, Hoffstatter received 797, Geist received 832 and Seidl advance over Henke with 696 over 220.
Because of the saga of having in-person voting during last week’s April 7th Election, results were not allowed to be released until yesterday. Clerks weren’t allowed to even count votes until 4pm yesterday. Hours before the count began, a group of Milwaukee-area voters filed a federal lawsuit over the election. They are suing Republican legislative leaders who refused to delay the election or shift it to all-mail.
(AP) -Joe Biden (63%) has defeated Bernie Sanders (32%) in Wisconsin's presidential primary, which was held last week during the coronavirus pandemic.
Biden's victory became academic after Sanders dropped out last week, one day after Wisconsin held in-person voting despite widespread concern over the health risks (581,491 votes to 293,634 votes). Republican legislative leaders refused to delay the election, and the party won a court battle to keep the date, making Wisconsin an outlier from other states that postponed spring primaries. For the other candidates still on the ballot, Warren received 14,054 votes (2%), 8,961 (1%) for Bloomberg, 6,062 (1%) for Klobuchar, 5,661 (1%) for Gabbard, 4,992 (1%) for Buttigieg, 3,419 (0%) for Yang, 850 (0%) for Steyer, 534 (0%) for Delaney, 485 (0%) for Bennet, 313 (0%) for Patrick and 3,550 (0%) for uninstructed.
Donald Trump received 616,979 votes (98%) in the state. Returns weren't allowed to be reported until Monday due to a quirk in the court battle over the election.
(AP) -Dane County Circuit Judge Jill Karofsky has defeated (55%) incumbent Justice Dan Kelly (45%) to win a 10-year seat on the state Supreme Court.
The race was officially nonpartisan but Democrats backed Karofsky and Republicans supported Kelly (856,344 votes to 692,731 votes). Karofsky was on the offensive for most of the campaign. She accused Kelly of being corrupt because he consistently sides with conservative groups before the court.
Karofsky's victory narrows the conservative majority on the court to 4-3 and gives liberals a chance to take control of the court the next time a seat comes up in 2023.
(AP) -Wisconsin voters have approved amending the state constitution to guarantee crime victims more rights.
The amendment easily passed in results counted Monday from last week's election (1,106,938 yes to 371,149 no). The Wisconsin Constitution and state law already lay out a host of crime victim rights. The amendment gives victims the right to seal information that could be used to locate them; the right to be heard at plea and parole hearings; and the right to opt out of defense attorneys' civil depositions.
Supporters have dubbed the amendments "Marsy's Law" for a California college student who was killed by an ex-boyfriend in 1983. Looking a little more locally, the CVTC referendum did pass with 62% of voters (45,783 votes) approving of the referendum and 38% (27,807) voting no.
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