Well, there’s not much to comment on about yesterday’s races as it was all pretty predictable . . . The only thing I saw that was unusual was how big a few people won the primary. Julia Kerr had 74% of the vote. (That is district 13 where Isadore Knox is retiring and Duane Steinhauer made it through the primary, Mike Clark did not.) Brian Solomon had 72% of the vote (That is district 10 where Ken Golden is retiring and Chris Ogden made it through the primary, Thomas McClure and Nick Deneanu did not.) and Marsha Rummel had 68% of the vote (That is district 6 where Judy Olson is retiring and Carl Durocher made it through the primary, Adam Casey and Brooks McGrath did not). The last two were 4 way primaries and they still did that well. Those are some pretty amazing numbers.
The other thing of note was the 12th district, where it was a hand-wringer waiting for the results. This is the district where Brian Benford is retiring. Deadman ended up with 607 votes, Rhodes-Conway had 602 and Basford ended up with 507. Watson ended up with 52 votes. If Basford’s votes go the way you would expect, Rhodes-Conway should pull out of that one in the general.
That leaves districts 11 (Gruber and Schmidt surviving, Sandra Saul did not), 15 (Palm and Selkowe surviving, Schmitt did not) and 18 (Schumacher and Becker surviving, Benito and Andy did not) which are much closer. And in District 17 Joe Clausius got 56% of the vote (Sarah Florino came in second with Mary Thornton out). All the results can be found on the Dane County Clerk’s page.
The Mayor’s race ended up sadly predictable (Mayor Dave vs. Ray Allen) and Beth Moss did amazingly well.
Now, we have 6 weeks to hear about the rest of the races without a primary. Those races are as follows:
1 – Jed Sanborn vs Aaron Becker
5 – Robbie Webber vs Troy Thiel
8 – Lauren Woods vs Eli Judge (Austin King retiring)
9 – Paul Skidmore vs Larry Pasha
19 – Curt Brink vs Mark Clear (Noel Radomski retiring)
20 – Gary Poulson vs Thus Pham-Remmele (Cindy Thomas retiring)
And in the end, the face of the Council will be very different than it is today. Here’s the recap of who made it through the primaries:
6 – Marsha Rummel vs Carl Durocher (Judy Olson retiring)
10 – Brian Solomon vs Chris Ogden (Ken Golden retiring)
11 – Tim Gruber vs Chris Schmidt
12 – Mark Deadman vs Satya Rhodes-Conway (Brian Benford retiring)
13 – Julia Kerr vs Duane Steinhauer (Isadore Knox retiring)
15 – Larry Palm vs Vicky Selkowe
17 – Joe Clausius vs Sarah Florino (Santiago Rosas retiring)
18 – Michael Schumacher vs Jon Becker (Paul VanRooy retiring)
Those running unopposed are
2 – Brenda Konkel
3 – Lauren Cnare
4 – Mike Verveer
7 – Zach Brandon
14 – Tim Bruer
16 – Judy Compton
Note: More links to websites on the way . . .
