Michael Rust tops LaKeisha Haase
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OSHKOSH ― Michael Rust is moving up to the bench.
The former court commissioner has been elected to serve a six-year period as a Circuit Judge for Winnebago County Circuit Court Branch 1, having defeated outgoing Common Council member LaKeisha Hasse in the Tuesday spring election.
According to unofficial resultsRust finished with 53% after receiving 15,699 votes, while Haase received 47% after accumulating 13,876 votes.
Haase failed in her latest attempt to return to the bench. She had lost a reelection campaign for Branch 4 two year ago, and then failed to unseat Branch 2, incumbent Scott Woldt, in a highly contentious 2023 election.
Rust’s elevation was a huge turnaround from the February primary, when he only garnered 28.2% of votes compared to Haase’s 46.2%.
After finishing as the top three vote-getters, restaurant owner Kris Larson and attorney DJ Nichols will fill the three vacant seats on the Oshkosh common council.
Larson won the race with 23.1%, while Nichols, Floam, and Thomas Asuma, each with 22.1%, and Kristopherulrich, each with 19.2%.
Nichols Floam Larson will replace Haase Deputy Mayor Lynnsey Erickson Michael Ford who have all decided not to seek reelection.
Kristopher Karns lost his seat on Oshkosh School District Board. Timothy Hess, the challenger, was able to join board president Beth Wyman as well as fellow incumbent Chris Wright in the top three vote-getters.
Wyman won the election with 28.1%. Hess came second with 25.3%. Wright was third with 24.7%. Karns was on the outside looking in, with 21.9%.
Steve Jungwirth won another term as mayor in Omro by defeating Suzette Davis Rice, a political novice. Jungwirth received 445 votes, or 68% of the vote, and defeated Davis-Rice (32%).
Austin Hammond, a 26-year-old council member from Menasha, became the youngest mayor ever in the City’s history after he beat out fellow councilmember Rebecca Nichols 102-to-one to succeed Mayor Don Merkes.
Hammond, who received 1,678 votes (51.6%) in Winnebago County and Calumet County, was just ahead of Nichols with 1,576 votes (48.4%).
Nichols also lost in the race for mayor of 2020 to Merkes. Merkes decided not to seek another term in office after spending 16 years as an official.
Following Tuesday’s massive shakeup, where all 36 positions on the Winnebago County Board were up for election, thirteen new supervisors will take their seats.
Next up is the partisan election on August 13, which will precede the general elections on Nov. 5.
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Here’s an overview of Tuesday’s results.
Presidential Preference
- Democratic – 13,111
- Republican – 14,268
Democratic President of United States
- Joe Biden – 12,928
- Dean Phillips – 483
- Uninstructed Delegation – 804
- Write-in – 120
Republican President of the United States
- Chris Christie – 283
- Vivek Ramaswamy – 127
- Ron DeSantis – 558
- Nikki Haley – 2,137
- Donald Trump – 12,308
- Uninstructed Delegation – 338
- Write-in – 57
Circuit Court Judge Branch 1
- Michael D. Rust – 15,669
- LaKeisha D. Haase – 13,876
- Write-in – 26
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County Supervisor, District 1,
- Rachel Dowling – 544
- Write-in – 8
County Supervisor, District 2
- KristL Laux – 430
- Jake Ackmann – 277
- Write-in – 1
County Supervisor for District 3
County Supervisor District 4
- Jeff Lutz – 608
- Write-in – 10
County Supervisor, District 5,
- Kay Horan – 365
- Stefanie A. Holt – 435
- Write-in – 2
County Supervisor for District 6
- Jason Kraayvanger – 296
- Lucas Reinke – 365
- Write-in – 7
County Supervisor District 7
- Kate Hancock-Cooke – 592
- Betsy Ellenberger – 575
- Write-in – 3
County Supervisor for District 8
- Jim Wise – 456
- Write-in – 7
County Supervisor District 9
- Donald Nussbaum – 534
- Write-in – 8
County Supervisor for District 10
- Bryan Stafford – 502
- Timothy Jacobson – 369
- Write-in – 8
County Supervisor for District 11
- Tim Paterson – 335
- Jeffrey H. Schettl – 262
- Write-in – 9
County Supervisor for District 12
- Maribeth Gabert – 567
- Write-in – 8
County Supervisor for District 13
- Steven Binder – 331
- Write-in – 11
County Supervisor for District 14
- Tom Swan – 490
- Write-in – 151
County Supervisor for District 15
- E. Michael Robinson – 285
- Amber Lyn Gilbertson – 375
- Write-in – 4
District 16 County Supervisor
- Christian Mueller – 89
- Bob Knudsen – 73
- Write-in – 1
County Supervisor District 17
County Supervisor District 18
- James Ponzer – 438
- Write-in – 13
County Supervisor for District 19
- Joshua Belville – 356
- Larry Lautenschlager – 323
- Write-in – 7
District 20 County Supervisor
- Tim Macho – 312
- Eric R. Vlach – 176
- Write-in – 6
County Supervisor District 21
- John Hinz – 445
- Jeff Lawrence – 246
- Write-in – 3
County Supervisor for District 22
- Doug Zellmer – 561
- Write-in – 12
County Supervisor for District 23
- Koby Schellenger – 546
- Write-in – 9
County Supervisor District 24
- Sarah Nelson – 426
- Andy Buck – 521
- Write-in – 1
District 25 County Supervisor
- Karen D. Powers – 496
- Scott A. Perzentka – 458
- Write-in – 2
County Supervisor District 26
- Conley Hanson – 390
- Write-in – 4
County Supervisor for District 27
- Morris Cox – 551
- Write-in – 10
County Supervisor for District 28
- Nate Gustafson – 647
- Write-in – 6
County Supervisor District 29
- George E. Bureau – 402
- Benjamin S. Frank – 322
County Supervisor for District 30
- Chuck Farrey – 907
- Write-in – 9
County Supervisor for District 31
- Ralph D. Harrison, Sr. – 885
- Write-in – 6
County Supervisor, District 32
- Frank Frassetto – 656
- Robert T. Keller – 538
- Write-in – 5
County Supervisor District 33
- Thomas J. Egan – 851
- Write-in – 5
District 34 County Supervisor
- Ed Jeziorny – 253
- Tim O’Brien – 624
- Write-in – 2
District 35 County Supervisor
- Douglas Nelson – 801
- Write-in – 63
County Supervisor for District 36
- Howard Miller – 525
- Write-in – 106
Supervisor for the Town of Algoma
- Patricia Petey Clark – 979
- Dan Martin – 865
- Write-in – 22
Town of Clayton Supervisor 3.
- Patti Christianson – 586
- Write-in – 12
Town of Clayton Supervisor 4.
- Terry Haase – 294
- Scott C. Reif – 397
- Write-in – 6
Town of Neenah Supervisor
- David Bluma – 451
- Jim Weiss – 575
- Write-in – 3
Town of Winneconne Manager
- Dale Burghardt – 375
- Ryan Koch – 356
- Write-in – 9
Village of Fox Crossing Trustee No. 1
- Michael Van Dyke – 2,169
- Write-in – 18
Village of Fox Crossing Trustee 3.
- Nicholas Gebert – 956
- Gregory J. Ziegler – 1,430
- Write-in – 15
Village of Fox Crossing Trustee
- Deb Swiertz – 2,025
- Write-in – 15
Village of Winneconne Trustee
- Gary K. Witzke – 231
- Joshua S. Janikowski – 259
- Jaci Stelzner – 287
- Miles Girouard – 228
- Write-in – 5
City of Menasha Mayor
- Austin R. Hammond – 1,678
- Rebecca Nichols – 1,576
- Write-in – 13
City of Menasha Alderperson for District 2
- Sandra Dabill Taylor – 135
- Rosita Eisenach – 194
- Write-in – 1
District 4 Alderperson of the City of Menasha
- Terri Perkins – 237
- Write-in – 4
City of Menasha Alderperson for District 6
- Tom Marshall – 129
- Write-in – 0
District 1 Alderperson of the City of Neenah
- Mark A. Ellis – 910
- Kristen Sandvick – 697
- Write-in – 4
City of Neenah Alderperson for District 2
- Brian D. Borchardt – 1,397
- Write-in – 26
City of Neenah Alderperson District 3
- Jeffrey Linski – 670
- William Pollnow Jr. – 689
- Write-in – 18
Mayor of the City of Omro
- Steve Jungwirth – 445
- Suzette Davis-Rice – 209
- Write-in – 2
City of Omro Council member
- David Wiese – 416
- Jason A. Reeves – 394
- Cindy Ostrander – 405
- Write-in – 17
City of Omro, Municipal Judge
- Jeffrey L. Kratz – 500
- Write-in – 2
City of Oshkosh Council member
- Kristopher Ulrich – 3,783
- Kris Larson – 4,905
- Jacob Floam – 4,078
- Tom Asuma – 3,804
- DJ Nichols – 4,689
- Write-in – 73
Friendship Consolidated Sanitary Commission
Berlin Area School Board
- Jim Carriveau – 92
- Catherine L. Kujawa – 91
- Beth Paskey-Cook – 74
- Jake Fox – 53
- Write-in – 1
Menasha Joint School Board
- Mary Jean MJ Shimek – 2,196
- Chad E. Lewis – 1,984
- Steve L. Thompson – 2,079
- Write-in – 77
Neenah Joint School Board
- Jeb Pfeifle – 3,466
- Roxanne Schwandt-Knutson – 3,572
- Brian Epley – 4,218
- Alex Corrigan – 3,772
- Susan Garcia Franz – 3,772
- Chari Long – 3,485
- Write-in – 76
New London School Board
- Mark W. Grossman – 16
- Nate Grundy – 12
- Katie Batten – 12
- Write-in – 1
Omro School Board
- Kattie Stenson – 731
- Jennifer Schmick – 969
- Darla M. Fink – 822
- Eric Thon – 701
- Write-in – 29
Oshkosh Area Schools Board
- Timothy Hess – 6,566
- Beth Wyman – 7,315
- Kristopher Karns – 5,687
- Chris Wright – 6,430
- Write-in – 108
Ripon Area Schools Board
- Lori Machmueller – 76
- Shannon Lampe – 46
- Kelly Nielsen – 89
- Denise K. Martinez – 87
- Katie Grady – 81
- Write-in – 3
Brandon Area School Board of Rosendale-Brandon
- Jack Meyer – 0
- Mandy Lemmenes – 1
- Write-in – 0
Rosendale-Brandon School Board, Rosendale Area
- Shane Bauer – 1
- Jennifer Riedeman – 1
- Write-in – 0
Weyauwega School Board, City of Weyauwega
- Nancy E. Gorchals – 102
- Brandon J. Leschke – 57
- Write-in – 2
Weyauwega Fremont school board, Towns of Bloomfield & Wolf River
- Brad Gerrits – 114
- Wally Sedlar – 45
- Write-in – 1
Winneconne School Board
- Donna J. Hanson – 1,314
- Dean Ackmann – 1,440
- Jill Verich – 1,324
- Write-in – 63
State Referendum – Q1: Use of Private Funds
- Yes – 14,393
- No – 11,068
State Referendum – Q2: Election Officials
- Yes – 15,131
- No – 10,272
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