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Spencer Coggs to finish out Senate term while he's Milwaukee City Treasurer. (WTMJ, 4/18/2012)
The Democratic Candidates. (Republican and other candidates. None.)
Sidebar: The winner of the August 14th primary will, for all practical purposes, represent the 6th Wisconsin Senate District for the next four years. Unless someone mounts an effective write-in campaign.
As explained in the
2011-12 State of Wisconsin Blue Book ("Primary Elections", page 867), "The candidate receiving the largest number of party votes for an office becomes the party's nominee in the November election." In other words, a majority of votes is not needed to win.
For example, Tyler August (R-Lake Geneva) won the 2010 Republican primary, a 6-way race, in the 32nd Assembly District with 23.97% of the vote, besting the 2nd place finisher by 3 votes. In the general election, he received more than double the number of votes of his Democratic opponent. (There were also two Independents in the race.)
Elizabeth Coggs
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Elizabeth Coggs was elected to the Wisconsin Assembly in 2010. She currently serves as a member of the Committee on Housing, Committee on Transportation, Committee on Aging and Long-Term Care, Committee on Consumer Protection and Personal Privacy, and Committee on Urban and Local Affairs.
For 22 years Representative Coggs worked hard to represent the people of Milwaukee County.
She served as 10th District Supervisor from 1988-2010, where she was Chairwoman of the Finance and Audit Committee and a member of the Health and Human Needs Committee and Parks, Energy and Environment Committee.
Representative Coggs continues the legacy of politics as a family tradition. Her father, Isaac N. Coggs, was one of the first African-Americans elected to the State Legislature in 1952 and the Milwaukee County Board in 1964. Her mother, Marcia P. Coggs, was the first African-American woman elected to the Wisconsin State Legislature in 1976. Her cousins State Senator Spencer Coggs, State Representative Leon Young, and Alderwoman Milele Coggs, also proudly serve Wisconsin as elected leaders.
Representative Coggs has a lifetime of involvement in the Milwaukee community. She is the founder of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Back to School Festival, Chairman of Vision for Vliet, and a member of the Milwaukee Urban League Guild, NAACP and Holy Redeemer Institutional Church of God In Christ.
Nikiya Harris
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Nikiya Q. Harris currently represents the 2nd District on the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors. Nikiya was elected to office in May 2010 out of a crowded field of eleven candidates. She was re-elected to her first full four year term this past April without opposition.
Nikiya is a Milwaukee native with strong roots in the 6th Senate District. Nikiya graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a Master’s in Adult Education and a Bachelor’s in Community Education. In college, she interned on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. for the Democratic Whip Leader, Congressman David Bonior.
Nikiya led the fight for voter’s rights by opposing Scott Walker’s Voter ID Law. She fought to insure fewer voters would be turned away from the polls due to lack of ID by making it possible for 5,000 Milwaukee County Residents to receive a FREE birth certificate.
In February of this year, Nikiya lead an effort to study African American Mental Health in the community. She partnered with Alverno College’s Graduate program in Community Psychology to host a summit.
Nikiya is an accomplished fundraising professional with certificates in Fund Development from the Helen Bader School of Non-profit Management and the Leaders Forum: African American Fund Development Institute.
Michael Mayo
Couldn't find a Senate campaign website.
Milwaukee County Supervisor Mayo to seek state Senate seat. (Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel, 5/7/2012)
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Michael Mayo Sr. was elected 7th District Supervisor [Milwaukee County Board]
in a special election held in 1994 and re-elected in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012. Supervisor Mayo is currently Chairman of the Transportation, Public Works and Transit Committee; and a member of both the Health and Human Needs and Economic and Community Development Committees.
Supervisor Mayo graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and is an alumnus of Future Milwaukee. He is a licensed insurance broker. In addition to his other committee assignments, Supervisor Mayo served as the chairman of the Task Force on African and African American Investment and Trade and is currently a member of the Milwaukee County American Friends of Africa. Supervisor Mayo serves on the War Memorial Board of Directors.
His community and professional memberships include Sherman Park Community Association, of which he is past director; a drive volunteer with the Neighborhood Watch; member of Omega Psi Phi; treasurer of True Square Lodge #11 Prince Hall; past treasurer of the Milwaukee Minority Chamber of Commerce [?] and founder and past president of the North Central Lions Club, the first African American Lions Club of Wisconsin.
Allyn Monroe Swan
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Allyn’s passion for politics and desire to touch the world was influenced by trail blazers in his reach. He was 8 years old when his father Monroe Swan signed the Senate Log book as the first African American State Senator in the state of Wisconsin in 1973.
His cousin Annette Polly Williams also served as a political force to be reckoned with as she served as a state Representative in the state of Wisconsin until 2010. These influences have helped to shape the servant heart he has.
Allyn is in love with his wife Erin and he is the proud father of Matthew and Dominque. He is a Spiritual Care Coordinator at Heartland Hospice, where he journeys with the terminally ill throughout our community to help facilitate their end of life spiritual/emotional concerns.
He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion and Philosophy along with a Masters of Art in Religion and a Master of Divinity. Allyn completed his residency and internship in Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) at Sinai Samaritan.
Although he was born and raised in Milwaukee, he has served his community in additional locations. He taught Texas History at Dallas Second Chance School where all of his students were teen offenders. He counseled severely emotionally disturbed children that had been sexualized, abandoned and abused at the Los Angeles Children Aid Society. [More at campaign website.]
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Delta L. Triplett was born in Milwaukee, WI. He is the youngest of twelve siblings and was raised by a very strong mother who made sure all of her children went to school because she knew the value of education. In 1976 as a young first grader, Delta was given the opportunity to attend school in the Whitefish Bay School District through the newly developed Chapter 220 Busing Program. Upon his graduation, he became the first African American student to complete first through twelfth grade in the Whitefish Bay School District.
Delta went on to enlist in the US Navy and joined the elite US Submarine fleet as a sonar technician. He served his country and is a wartime veteran of Operation Desert Storm. After completing his tour of duty in the US Navy, he went on to become a student-athlete as a member of the University of Wisconsin Badgers Football Program. While in college he worked with community organizations and local schools as a parent liaison for troubled youth.
After working his way through college with the help of veteran benefits and student loans, Delta returned home to work with the youth of his community as a teacher in the Milwaukee Public Schools District and later became the Milwaukee County MLK Community Center Manager.
In 2000, Delta was given the opportunity to work as a diversity recruitment consultant for MPS where he played a key role in the hiring of several teachers into the school district. He went on to work as a diversity consultant for several corporations including GE Infrastructure via Kelly Services, Cooper Power Systems, and Harley Davidson before launching his own company, The Ten Group, LLC, in June of 2006.
Delta Triplett owns and operates the only diversity recruitment and consulting firm in the State of Wisconsin. He has helped several clients from the likes of Johnson Controls, Kohl’s Corporate, and Quarles & Brady LLP; to increase their diversity talent within critical roles of their organizations.
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