Who's Running for State Office in Wisconsin 2012: Assembly District 2 (General Election Edition)

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Public libraries in the 2nd Assembly District.

Brown County Public Library

• Denmark Branch Library
• Kress Branch Family Library, De Pere
• Wrightstown Branch Library

Lester Public Library, Two Rivers

Academic library:  The Miriam B. and James J. Mulva Library, St. Norbert College.

Jacque, Preuss exchange views at 2nd Assembly forum.  (Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter, 10/11/2012)

Excerpt: A former schoolteacher, Preuss said in his opening remarks, “Civility and dignity of all humankind (are) just words ... rhetoric until you have a definitive action that brings the words to life.” 

He asked those attending to watch the two candidates facial expressions and body language, “and manner in which we speak to each other and the way in which we treat those here ... as you discern character. Please include (your observations) when considering how you vote,” Preuss said. 

Jacque, in his initial remarks, stressed that he has helped get legislation passed with bipartisan support that has earned him high marks for being an effective legislator in the area of economic development.

The Republican Incumbent

Biography:   Born Beaver Dam, October 13, 1980; married; 2 children. 

Graduate Green Bay Southwest 1999; B.S. UW-Madison 2003. 

Full-time legislator. 

Former transit planning coordinator, communications director, grant-writing consultant. 

Member: Green Bay Area Crimestoppers (bd. mbr.); Brown Co. Teen Leadership (bd. mbr.); Brown Co. United Way (marketing and communications com.); Brown Co. Taxpayers Association; Pro-Life Wisconsin; Wis. Right to Life; Knights of Columbus; National Rifle Association. Higher Educational Aids Bd., 2001-03.  

Elected to Assembly 2010. 

Rep. Andre Jacque seeks re-election to Assembly,  (Herald Times Reporter, 5/24/2012)

Andre Jacque for Assembly 2010 letter.

Meet the Majority

Won his seat handily in 2010.

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The Democratic Challenger.
Larry Pruess

Wisconsin Democracy Campaign:  "Big Money Contributors".

Reminds me of a Laura Nyro collaboration.

Related posts (the Fall 2012 edition).
Assembly District 1.

Who's Running for State Office in Wisconsin 2012: Assembly District 1 (General Election Edition)

Public libraries in the 1st Assembly District:
Algoma
Door County (8 locations)
Kewaunee
Brown County (4 townships in its service area)


The Republican incumbent:

Biography.  Born Manitowoc, October 26, 1946; married; 4 children, 5 grandchildren.

Graduate Lincoln H.S., Manitowoc; Associate Degree Northeastern Technical College 1982.

Full-time legislator. Former chief deputy sheriff, deputy sheriff, Door County Sheriff’s Dept. 30 years, and project director for Door/Kewaunee Drug Task Force, 1990-2000.  Navy veteran, 1964-69.

Member: American Legion Post 527, 1970-present; Knights of Columbus, 1970-present; Northern Door Child Care (bd. dir.); St. Rosalia Catholic Church (former trustee and council member); Sturgeon Bay Rotary; volunteer guardian for disabled adults.

Elected to Assembly since 2000.

Won with 58.3% of the vote in the 2010 general election.

The primary results:

Patrick Veeser wins primary by 31 votes, will face Rep. Garey Bies in November.  (Green Bay Press-Gazette, 8/14/2012)

Democratic primary for Assembly District 1

SIdebar:  Republican primary for U.S. Senate 
vote tally in Door County

The Democratic challenger
Patrick Veeser.  Patrick is on Facebook, but I wasn't able to find a campaign website.

Luxemburg's Pat Veeser To Run For 1st Assembly Seat.  (Door County Daily News, 9/26/2011)

Biographical information from Wisconsin Progress.

• Grew up on his family farm in Casco 
• Graduate of Luxemburg-Casco High School. 
• Married to Brenda for 37 years
• Employee at Paper Converting in Green Bay for the past 36 years
• President of UAW Local 1102. 
• Serves on the UAW Wisconsin State C.A.P. board

Conservative and Church Groups Attend Anti-Obama Documentary

Movie audiences find anti-Obama doc '2016'. (Yahoo News, 8/31/2012)

Excerpt:   Joseph and the film's co-director, John Sullivan, launched a stealthy campaign for the film that attracted the attention and support of right-wing superstars like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. Buzz for the movie simmered over the summer, bubbling up last weekend before the Republican convention kicked off Tuesday.

Timing, such as expanding the movie to 1,091 locations on what Box Office Mojo refers to as an

......easily the lowest-grossing weekend of 2012 so far.

The numbers for Obama's America 2016 since the film went into wide release, as reported by Box Office Mojo.

'2016: Obama's America' Director Dinesh D'Souza Says Film 'Will Do Better If Obama Wins'. (Huffington Post, 8/30/2012)

Excerpt: Keith Simanton, managing editor of the online movie database IMDB, said that the movie's success was largely an effect of canny marketing and good timing. "It's had a groundswell around it. The platform release worked well -- and being in the middle of the Republican convention helps. They timed it well; if they'd pumped this out in July, we wouldn't be having this conversation, " he told The Huffington Post. 

Critics said the movie's box-office prowess [???] has been artificially inflated by large conservative and church groups. D'Souza acknowledged such groups have been a factor, but denied that he or Rocky Mountain, the movie's distributor, have played any part in mobilizing them.

Prowess?  Hardly.

In its 53 days of release, Obama's America 2016 has grossed $20,185,000.  111 movies have performed better in the past year.  Nothing shocking here.

Sidebar:  Average 2nd quarter 2012 ticket price is $8.12, which means that less than 2,500,000 people in the U.S. have seen Obama's America 2016.-- compared to 4,782,000 for The Odd Life of Timothy Green, 9,200,000 for The Campaign, and 53,355,000 for The Dark Knight Rises.