The 800 Club

For the Wisconsin State Senate, one is allowed to submit up to 800 signatures, although only 400 are needed to get on the ballot. Who qualified for the 800 club – turning in 800 perfect signatures?

• GOP: Leah Vukmir – SD5
• DEM: Jeff Plale – SD7
• GOP: Rick Richard – SD15
• GOP: Terry Moulton – SD23
• GOP: Dane Deutsch – SD25
• GOP: Pam Galloway – SD29
• GOP: Ed Thompson – SD31
• GOP: Rich Zipperer – SD33

Dems fail to qualify candidate for CD1, CD5

UPDATE:

TODD P KOLOSSO repairs enough signatures to get on ballot – now at 1,188. Heckenlively not yet….

1,000 signatures are needed to qualify for congress. Dems failed to qualify a candidate for the ballot in CD 1 (Paul Ryan). Libertarians did.

CD1
2000 – GOP – Paul Ryan
1,139 – LIB – Joseph Kexel
1,042 – IND – Bill Tucker
853 – DEM – John Heckenlively

Dem Todd Kolosso failed to make the ballot in CD 5.

CD5
2000 – GOP – F James Sensenbrenner
1,268 – IND – Robert Raymond
984 – DEM – Todd Kolosso

US Senate Nomination Paper Counts

3,982 – GOP – Ron Johnson
3,930 – DEM – Russ Feingold
3,054 – GOP – Dave Westlake
2,870 – IND (CON) Rob Taylor
2,187 – GOP – Stephen Finn

AG, SecState, and Treasurer Nomination Paper Counts

Attorney General:
3,945 – GOP – J.B. Van Hollen
2,390 – DEM – Scott Hassett

Secretary of State:
2,886 – DEM – Doug LaFollette
2,479 – GOP – David King

Treasurer:
2,747 – GOP – Scott Feldt
2,298 – DEM – Dawn Marie Sass
2,285 – GOP – Kurt Schuller
2,246 – DEM – Dan Bohrod
2,168 – GOP – Jim Sanfilippo

Lieutenant Governor Nomination Paper Count

3,440 – DEM – Tom Nelson
2,571 – DEM – Spencer Coggs
2,368 – DEM – James Schneider
2,063 – DEM – Henry Sanders
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2,641 – GOP – Robert Lorge
2,555 – GOP – Brett Davis
2,368 – GOP – Nick Voegeli
2,336 – GOP – Rebecca Kleefisch
2,116 – GOP – Dave Ross
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2,606 – LIB – Terry Virgil

Nomination Paper Totals for Governor

2,000 signatures are required to get on the ballot – so looks like 3 GOP, 2 DEMs, and an Independent, and Scott Walker managed to turn in a perfect 4,000!

4000 – GOP – Scott Walker
3830 – DEM – Tom Barrett
3625 – GOP – Mark Neumann
2599 – GOP – Scott Paterick
2323 – IND – Jim Langer
2100 – DEM – Tim John
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1991 – IND – James James
762 – LIB – Erick Scoglio
724 – GOP – John Schiess

Great new site on WI elections:

http://electoralthoughts.wordpress.com/

2010 US Senate Preview

It’s been a few months since we looked at the Senate race:

• #42 North Dakota – GOP by 49 (Hoeven 72, Potter 23). Wow.
• #43 Delaware – GOP by 23 (Castle 55, Coons 32)
• #44 Arkansas – GOP by 6-28, margin spreading
• #45 Indiana – GOP by 14 (Coats 47, Ellsworth 33)
• #46 Nevada – GOP by 8-13, +5 since March, Reid very vulnerable
• #47 Illinois – GOP by 8 (Kirk 46 – Gianoulias 38)
• #48 Pennsylvania – GOP by 7 (Toomey 45, Sestak 38)
• #49 Colorado – GOP by 2-7 (was 2-14),
• #50 Washington – DEM by 1, Dino Rossi in, down 3 (Murray 48 – Rossi 47)
• #51 Wisconsin – DEM by 2, Tommy out, (Feingold 46 – Ron Johnson 42)
• #52 California – DEM by 1-7, (Boxer 42, Campbell 41)
• #53 Connecticut – DEM by 3-16 (Blumenthal 48, McMahon 45)

Bottom 5 Warchests

• Tauchen, Gary (R-Bonduel) – $219.39
• Zepnick, Josh (D-Milwaukee) – $532.92
• Spanbauer, Richard J (R-Oshkosh) – $575.93
• Krusick, Peggy (D-Milwaukee) – $1,085.55
• Young, Leon(D-Milwaukee) – $1,181.90

Top Ten Warchests

Going into 2010 – which state representative candidates have the biggest warchests?

• John Marek of Waukesha, WI, running for Mark Gundrum’s Assembly Seat #84: $150,000.00 (someone is serious about running!) [Waukesha Freeman]
• Retiring Rep. Spencer Black (D-Madison, AD77) $143,209.00
• Rep. Robin Vos (R-Caledonia, AD63) $80,942.94
• Rep. Jeff Stone (R-Greendale, AD82) $70,314.90
• Rep. Dean Kaufert (R-Neenah, AD55) $63,151.93
• Rep. Jennifer Shilling (D-La Crosse, AD95) $56,122.37
• Rep. Amy Sue Vruwink (D-Marshfield, AD70) $55,489.52
• Rep. Cory Mason (D-Racine, AD62) $51,997.15
• Rep. David Cullen, (D-Milwaukee, AD13) $51,428.81
• Rep. Dan Meyer, (R-Eagle River, AD34) $46,199.97