Wisconsin Fall Election Preview: Senate District 17

Open seat.  Dale Schultz (R-Richland Center) not running for re-election.

Howard Marklein, Republican candidate

• Campaign website
• Facebook (482 likes)  
• LinkedIn
• Wisconsin Eye interview (8/25/2014)
• Cash on hand (as of 8/12/2014):   $302,318.58

Pat Bomhack, Democratic candidate

• Campaign website
• Facebook (210 likes) 
• Twitter (121 followers)
• LinkedIn
• Wisconsin Eye interview (6/24/2014)
• Cash on hand (as of 8/18/2014): $25,139.49

Bomback won a very close, highly contested Democratic primary.

Ballotpedia

17th Senate District
(Includes all of Grant and Lafayette counties and portions of Green, Iowa, Vernon, Sauk, Monroe and Juneau counties.)

Public and academic libraries in the 17th Senate District

Public libraries in the 49th Assembly District, which is represented by Travis Tranel (R-Cuba City):
Benton Public Library
Bloomington Public Library
Boscobel Public Library
Brickl Memorial Library, Dickeyville
Cuba City Public Library
Dwight T. Parker Public Library, Fennimore
Eckstein Memorial Library, Cassville
Hazel Green Public Library
Livingston Library
Montfort Public Library
Muscoda Public Library
Platteville Public Library
Schreiner Memorial Library, Lancaster

Academic libraries in the 49th
Elton S. Karrmann Library, UW-Platteville
Southwest Wisconsin Technical College Library, Fennimore

Public libraries in the 50th Assembly District, represented by Ed Brooks (R-Reedsburg):
Brewer Public Library, Richland Center
Elroy Public Library
Hatch Public Library, Mauston
LaValle Public Library
Necedah Community Siegler Memorial Library
New Lisbon Memorial Library
Reedsburg Public Library
Rock Springs Public Library
Wonewoc Public Library

Academic library in the 50th
Miller Memorial Library, UW-Richland Center

Public libraries in the 51st Assembly District, represented by Howard Marklein (R-Spring Green):

Argyle Public Library

Blanchardville Public Library

Cobb Public Library

Dodgeville Public Library

Johnson Public Library, Darlington

Kraemer Public Library, Plain

McCoy Public Library, Shullsburg

Mineral Point Public Library 

Monroe Public Library

Spring Green Community Library

Turgeson Memorial Library, Belmont

Related posts and notes:

1st Senate District  (9/6/2014)

• 1st Assembly District.  (8/26/2014)
• 2nd Assembly District.  2-term Republican Andre Jacque (De Pere) is running unopposed.
• 3rd Assembly District.  14-term Republican Al Ott (Forest Junction) is running unopposed.

2nd Senate District.  7-term Republican Rob Cowles (Green Bay) is not up for re-election this year.   Cowles also served in the Assembly from 1982 to 1987.

• 4th Assembly District.  (8/27/2014)
• 5th Assembly District.  (8/29/2014)
• 6th Assembly District.  4-term Republican Gary Tauchen (Bonduel) is running unopposed.

3rd Senate District:  3-term Democrat Tim Carpenter (Milwaukee) is running unopposed.

• 7th Assembly District. (9/2/2014)
• 8th Assembly District.  (9/3/2014)
• 9th Assembly District. 6-term Democrat Josh Zepnick (Milwaukee) is running unopposed.

4th Senate District.  Three-term Democrat Lena Taylor (Milwaukee) is not up for re-election this year.

• 10th Assembly District.  Democratic newcomer David Bowen (Milwaukee) won a 4-way Democratic primary and is running unopposed.
• 11th Assembly District.  Freshman Democrat Mandela Barnes (Milwaukee) is running unopposed.
• 12th Assembly District.   (9/4/2014)

5th Senate District (9/8/2014)

• 13th Assembly District.  Freshman Republican Rob Hutton (Brookfield) is running unopposed.
• 14th Assembly District.  2-term Republican Dale Kooyenga (Brookfield) is running unopposed. 
• 15th Assembly District. (9/5/2014)

6th Senate District.  Freshman Democrat Nikiya Harris Dodd (Milwaukee) is not up for re-election this year.

• 16th Assembly District.  11-term Democrat Leon Young (Milwaukee) is running unopposed.
• 17th Assembly District (sorry, somehow got lost in the shuffle; need to re-do)
• 18th Assembly District.  Freshman Democrat Evan Goyke (Milwaukee) is running unopposed.

7th Senate District.  (9/9/2014)

• 19th Assembly District (9/12/2014)
• 20th Assembly District (9/13/2014)
• 21st Assembly District.  Freshman Republican Jessie Rodriguez (Franklin) is running unopposed

8th Senate District.  6-term Republican Alberta Darling (River Hills) is not up for re-election this year.   Darling also served 2 1/2 years in the Assembly (May 1990-January 1993)

• 22nd Assembly District.  (9/14/2014) 
• 23rd Assembly District.  (9/16/2014)
• 24th Assembly District.  3-term Republican Dan Knodl (Germantown) is running unopposed.

9th Senate District.  (9/15/2014)

• 25th Assembly District.  Freshman Republican Paul Tittl (Manitowoc) is running unopposed. 
• 26th Assembly District.  (9/16/2014) 
• 27th Assembly District.  (9/18/2014) 

10th Senate District.  4-term Republican Sheila Harsdorf (River Falls) is not up for re-election this year.  Harsdorf also served 12 years in the Assembly (1989-2001)

• 28th Assembly District.  (9/19/2014)
• 29th Assembly District.   4-term Republican John Murtha (R-Baldwin) is running unopposed.
• 30th Assembly District.   (9/20/2014) 

11th Senate District.  (9/22/2014)

• 31st Assembly District.  2-term Republican Amy Loudenbeck (Clinton) is running unopposed. 
• 32nd Assembly District.  (9/21/2014)
• 33rd Assembly District.  Republican candidate Cody Horlacker (Mukwanago) is running unopposed.

12th Senate District.  First-term Republican Tom Tiffany (Town  of Little Rice) is not up for re-election this year.  (Tiffany also served in the Assembly for 2 years -- 2011-2013.)

• 34th Assembly District.  Freshman Republican Rob Swearingen (Rhinelander) is running opposed.
• 35th Assembly District.  Freshman Republican Mary Czaja (Irma) is running unopposed.
• 36th Assembly District.  5-term Republican Jeff Mursau (Crivitz) is running unopposed.

13th Senate District.  (9/23/2014)

• 37th Assembly District.  (9/24/2014) 
• 38th Assembly District.  (9/25/2014) 
• 39th Assembly District.  (9/26/2014) 

14th Senate District.  3-term Republican Luther Olsen (Ripon) is not up for re-election this year.  (Olsen also served 10 years in the Assembly, first elected in 1994.)

• 40th Assembly District.  4-term Republican Keith Peterson (Waupaca) is running unopposed.
• 41st Assembly District.  (9/27/2014) 
• 42nd Assembly District.  (9/28/2014) 

15th Senate District.  (9/29/2014) 

• 43rd Assembly District (9/30/2014)
• 44th Assembly District (10/1/2014)
• 45th Assembly District.  Democratic candidate Mark Spreitzer (Beloit) is running unopposed. 

16th Senate District.  3-term Democrat Mark Miller (Monona) is not up for re-election this year.  (Miller also served 6 years in the Assembly -- 1999-2005.) 

• 46th Assembly District.  5-term Democrat Gary Hebl (Sun Prairie) is running unopposed. 
• 47th Assembly District.  (10/2/2014)
• 48th Assembly District.  Freshman Democrat Melissa Agard Sargent (Madison) is running unopposed.