Retiring Guy's Digest

Thursday, October 1, 2020

Wisconsin 2020 elections: Who's running the 56th State Assembly district?

In November 2018, Dave Murphy (R-Greenville) wins a 4th term in the Assembly by a margin of more than 18 percentage points.

Diana Lawrence has lived in Appleton for most of her life and has worked at various jobs in the health and insurance industries. It will be a challenge for her to unseat the incumbent in a gerrymandered district that looks as though it's ready to swallow up Appleton, Menasha, and Neenah.

Source: Ballotpedia

The Jigsaw Art

of the Wisconsin Gerrymander

Source: Ballotpedia

Sources include Wisconsin Elections Commission

2020 Wisconsin election posts:

14th Senate District. (2/24/2020)

16th Senate District. (1/28/2020)

26th Senate District. (4/4/2020)

30th Senate District. (1/18/2020)

1st Assembly District. (5/8/2020)

2nd Assembly District. (7/5/2020)

3rd Assembly District. (7/6/2020)

4th Assembly District. (7/6/2020)

6th Assembly District. (7/8/2020)

8th Assembly District. (7/8/2020)

9th Assembly District. (7/9/2020)

11th Assembly District. (7/9/2020)

12th Assembly District. (7/10/2020)

13th Assembly District. (7/14/2020)

14th Assembly District. (7/15/2020)

15th Assembly District. (7/16/2020)

19th Assembly District. (7/20/2020)

21st Assembly District. (7/21/2020)

23rd Assembly District. (7/24/2020)

24th Assembly District. (7/28/2020)

25th Assembly District. (7/30/2020)

26th Assembly District. (8/3/2020)

28th Assembly District. (8/4/2020)

29th Assembly District. (2/21/2020)

30th Assembly District. (8/10/2020)

31st Assembly District: (8/6/2020)

32nd Assembly District. (8/7/2020)

33rd Assembly District. (8/21/2020)

34th Assemblyl District. (8/22/2020)

35th Assembly District. (8/24/2020)

38th Assembly District. (8/26/2020)

39th Assembly District. (8/28/2020)

40th Assembly District. (9/2/2020)

41st Assembly District. (9/3/2020)

42nd Assembly District. (8/31/2020)

43rd Assembly District. (9/4/2020)

44th Assembly District. (9/6/2020)

45th Assembly District. (9/7/2020)

48th Assembly District. (3/12/2020)

49th Assembly District. (9/8/2020)

50th Assembly District. (9/10/2020)

51st Aasembly District. (9/12/2020)

52nd Assembly District. (9/14/2020)

55th Assembly District. (9/28/2020)

63rd Assembly District. (5/29/2020)

67th Assembly District. (5/4/2020)

69th Assembly District. (1/16/2020)

76th Assembly District. (5/13/2020)

82nd Assembly District. (5/13/2020)

96th Assembly District. (5/3/2020)

Mary Lou Blair Peterson (1929-2020) Warren High School class of 1947

Source: Warren Times Observer

1947 Dragon yearbook

1967 Warren City Directory

[county section] Fred and Mabel Blair are listed as living at 355 North Main Street in Clarendon

1983 Warren City Directory

The popularity of Mary as a baby name is graphed here. Let's take a look at son-in-law Milton.

Source: Social Security Administration

Milton spent 32 years (1900-1931) in the top 100, peaking at #64 in 1912. His slow decline started to accelerate in the 1970s and despite a brief rally at the end of the millennium, he fell out of view after 2008.

Other Class of '47 graduates:
2020
Jeanne Anthony Soliday . (4/13/2020)
Jacquelyn Smith Cunningham. (3/10/2020)
Martha Winans. (1/12/2020)

2019
James Johnson. (11/1/2019)
Richard Morrison. (8/6/2019)
Richard Blair. (6/25/2019)
Mary Ann Gnagey Masterson. (5/30/2019)
Roscoe Knapp. (5/18/2019)
LeRoy Marti. (3/7/2019)

2018
Bonnie Bauer Lucia. (8/20/2018)
David Lopez. (6/20/2018)
Alan Schuler. (6/8/2018)

2017

Agnes Porter Green. (5/9/2017)
Carolyn Johnson Sorenson. (4/8/2017)
Rose Gleason King Font. (1/2/2017)

2016
Thomas Hampson. (12/22/2016)
William Nordin. (12/10/2016)
Barbara BovaKerr. (11/22/2016)
Wilbur Nordin. (11/16/2016)
Elwood Beckwith. (10/28/2016)
Robert Huck. (3/24/2016)
Lois Sigworth Conaway. (3/23/2016)
Leroy Weaver. (1/26/2016)

2015
Betty Uplinger Hagberg. (10/4/2015)
Betsi Conaway Preston Yerkes. (6/15/2015)
Frank Shanshala. (4/28/2015)

2014
Joyce Mack Phelps. (12/2/2014)
Henry Blick. (8/29/2014)

Kathleen Bloomquist Anderson. (8/2/2014)

Frances Cash VanVolkinburg. (2/7/2014)

Robert Songer. (1/19/2014)

Grant County Covid update: Dear Sheriff Dreckman, Please find a job where mimicking GOP talking points is the only job qualification. Best, Retiring Guy

You are out of your element, not showing leadership qualities.

Photo credit: Grant County Sheriff's Office

Reported in Local law enforcement take sides on enforcing mask order. (WMTV, 7/30/2020)

Here's the thing, Nate. Grant County is spiking even more dramtically than it was in July. Flattening the curve appears to be a long way down the road.

Grant County reported 154 Covid cases from March 25 to June 30, an average of less than 2 per day.

Grant County reported an additional 277 cases from July 1 to August 31, an average of between 4 and 5 per day.

Grant County reported 625 more cases during September, an average of 21 per day.

Moreoever, Grant County is among the top third of Wisconsin counties with the highest Covid positive test rate per 100,000 persons. (You won't currently find Dane County on the list.)

Do your job, Nate. #wearadamnask. And encourage everyone in Grant County to do so.

Graphs from 7/30/2020 post

Wisconsin Department of Health Services

Moreover, Grant County is #18 on this hit parade. You clearly aren't paying attention, Nate.

Original 7/21/2020 post, "Grant County Board of Supervisors engages in government malpractice", starts here.

WXOW, 7/21/2020

And, by default, dismisses the seriousness of the pandemic.

The number of weekly confirmed COVID cases is accelerating.

Wisconsin Department of Human Services

252 cases doesn't sound like a lot, but in Grant County's case, this number currently translates to a positive test rate of 486 per 100,000 persons. The county ranks 17th among Wisconsin's 72 counties.