What a Primary!

What a primary!!!! Let’s talk about Ozaukee County. Remember primaries have lives of their own. County-wide, Democrats cast 56.88% of the vote and Republicans cast 42.96% of the vote. That is a first in and of itself. 

The race that of course gets the most attention is the Governor’s race. Let’s start with the data there. MAGA Tom Tiffany received 9,413 votes. The Democrats collectively garnered 14,475 votes; there were seven Democratic candidates on the ballot. Specifically, David Crowley won the county with 6,546 votes and Francesca Hong came in second with 4,839 votes.

Now here is where your Chair is going to lecture you a bit. When we move down to what I consider the second most important race on the ballot, our Congressional race, voting drops off precipitously. That cannot happen in the General Election on November 3rd.

Glenn Grothman, the Republican Incumbent and contestant for the weirdest man in Congress, got 8,976 votes. The Democrats Amanda Bell and Brad Smith and 44 write-ins collectively won 12,206 votes. Bell had 5,077 and Smith had 7,705. That is a drop off of 2,169 votes from the governor’s race. Those votes will matter in the General election. This is our year to beat Grothman. Smith won the nomination with 51.1% of the votes, or 30,216 votes, while Bell obtained 48.9%, or 28,874, according to unofficial election results for the race that was called in the afternoon of Aug. 12. They both ran a great race.

On to our Assembly races. Remember these cover much smaller geographical areas. Assembly District 22: Democrat Dana Glasstein received 7,229 votes. Incumbent Republican Paul Melotik received 5,458 votes. In Assembly District 23, Incumbent Democrat Deb Andraca won 3,126 votes and her challenger Aleanor Pabonnie received 1,541 votes. Assembly District 59, which has a very small part of Ozaukee County is an open seat. Democrat and second time contender Jack Holzman won 1,019 votes and his challenger Republican Bradley Petersen received 1,501 votes. All of our Assembly candidates have been out knocking doors and it shows.

Click here for complete data for Ozaukee County.

So what did we learn? Voting matters. Don’t stop at the top. This was a chaotic and productive primary. On to November 3rd.

Thanks for reading.