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Democratic candidate Jung faces probe into campaigning on city time
From JSOnline:
Ricardo TorresTrevor Jung, the City of Racine transit director and Democratic candidate for state Senate, is under investigation by the Racine County District Attorney's office over an allegation he had campaigned on city time.
Racine County District Attorney Tricia Hanson confirmed the investigation, saying the allegation came from a resident on Sept. 23 and she forwarded it to a law enforcement agency to do an investigation.
“Right now, it’s just that, an allegation,” Hanson said to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “It’s very preliminary. Someone has said ‘I think this is a problem.’ They are a resident of Racine County and they have a right to complain. I forwarded it on. We’ll see if there’s something there. I have no idea.”
Hanson said the Racine County Sheriff’s Office is determining which agency should investigate the allegation.
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“I don’t have any investigators,” Hanson said.
Hanson said her office has not reached out to the city or Racine Mayor Cory Mason’s office.
Mason's office declined to comment on the investigation.
In a statement Jung said:
“Last week, when Republicans made this false, ridiculous claim, the City of Racine rejected the assertion, confirming that I am not campaigning while working. Our campaign has been focused on the issues that matter most to the people of Southeastern Wisconsin. The people of Racine and the 21st have been and remain my sole priority, and the lies and distractions of Republican attacks won’t change that.”
The Committee to Elect a Republican Senate has been alleging Jung campaigned on city time and filed a records request involving his work schedule.
“The completed records request and social media posts point to an alarming truth: Trevor Jung is taking advantage of taxpayers while seeking a promotion,” Leah Peterson, communications director for the Committee to Elect a Republican Senate, said in early September.
Wisconsin State Senate Democratic Committee communications director Will Karcz said in a statement, "Wisconsin Republicans are resorting to outright lies."
"When Republicans tried to make this a story two weeks ago, the City of Racine made it clear that there were zero improprieties. This Republican DA has decided to weaponize her office to attack a political opponent. This Trump-style tactic hasn’t worked in DC, and it won’t work in Racine.”
Jung told the Journal Sentinel in September that he would take an unpaid leave of absence from his city job starting Oct. 1 through Election Day.
Jung is running in Senate District 21 against Republican candidate Jim Croft. The seat has been held by Republican Van Wanggaard, who is decided not to run for re-election after being elected in 2015. The race is considered one of several key contests to determine which party controls the Senate next year.
The investigation was first reported by the conservative website The Heartland Post.
(This story was updated to add new information.)
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Wisconsin clerks sending mail-in ballots as Trump wages court fight
Molly Beck
MADISON - Nearly 50,000 mail-in ballots are en route to Wisconsin voters and three have already been returned as President Donald Trump seeks permission from the U.S. Supreme Court to upend the rules for absentee voting ahead of November's midterm election.
Trump on Sunday made a last-ditch appeal to the nation's highest court to allow his administration to implement new restrictions on mail-in voting − rules that would require absentee voters to be deemed eligible to receive ballots using a master list governed by the U.S. Postal Service and a barcode system.
As of Monday, 49,606 absentee ballots were mailed to voters or are ready to be mailed, according to the Wisconsin Elections Commission. That number doesn't distinguish between the number of labels that have been printed and ballots that have actually been mailed, according to the commission.
Don Millis, Republican chairman of the bipartisan state elections commission, said if the Supreme Court sides with Trump, voters who have not yet returned their ballots may decide to hand-deliver the ballots to clerks instead of trying to mail it back under the new rules because there's a chance the Postal Service may not deliver the ballot.
"If you're a clerk and you've received the ballot in mail, it's going to be counted," Millis said. "If you're a voter and you've not mailed your ballot in, you have to make a decision about what you're going to do."
Trump's appeal to the conservative-controlled U.S. Supreme Court came after a U.S. District Court Judge in Massachusetts on Friday extended an order blocking the Postal Service from implementing the new rules. The injunction was part of a lawsuit filed by a number of states, including Wisconsin.
John Sauer, U.S. solicitor general, said in the Sunday filing the extended injunction "risks sowing confusion and chaos."
"Once those ballot envelopes enter the mailstream, there is no retrieving them," Sauer wrote in the filing to the Supreme Court.
Millis said the administration's plan is going to "hurt Republicans more than it's going to hurt Democrats" because Democratic voters tend to live in cities, which have more options to return ballots.
"There's a saying that many people will say, just follow the science, right? ... and people who say that will often claim that those on the other side are letting their ideology get in the way. Well, that's what's happening with this rule."
"Someone's letting their ideology get in the way because in this attempt to go after probably a handful of non-citizens voting, you're going to end up screwing Republicans big time," he said. "And it's going to be Georgia in 2020 all over again, where the national party ended up giving two Democratic seats in the Senate to Georgia."
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Racine County unofficial results for the Aug. 11 primary election
Journal Times Staff
The following are unofficial results for the Aug. 11 election with 88 of 88 precincts reporting, according to the Racine County Clerk’s Office.
An asterisk (*) denotes candidates who dropped out of the race before Election Day.
Governor - Republican
Tom Tiffany: 15,685
Andy Manske: 580
Write-in: 9
Governor - Democratic
David Crowley: 9,090
Francesca Hong: 7,221
Kelda Roys: 1,258
Mandela Barnes*: 966
Sara Rodriguez*: 921
Joel Brennan: 887
Missy Hughes*: 58
Write-in: 3
Lieutenant Governor - Republican
Will Martin: 7,300
David Varnam: 6,996
Write-in: 25
Lieutenant Governor - Democratic
Sarah Godlewski: 17,043
Write-in: 77
Attorney General - Republican
Eric Toney: 13,977
Write-in: 23
Attorney General - Democratic
Josh Kaul: 17,045
Write-in: 71
Secretary of State - Republican
Jay Schroeder: 6,207
Nate Pollnow: 4,040
Cindy Werner: 2,225
Brayden Myer: 1,475
Write-in: 27
Secretary of State - Democratic
JoCasta Zamarripa: 16,153
Write-in: 58
State Treasurer - Republican
John S. Leiber: 14,065
Write-in: 19
State Treasurer - Democratic
Dylan Ray Helmenstine: 7,735
Yee Leng Xiong: 9,318
Write-in: 49
U.S. Congressional District 1 - Republican
Bryan Steil: 15,134
Write-in: 40
U.S. Congressional District 1 - Democratic
Mitchell Berman: 7,961
Lorenzo J. Santos: 3,994
Peter Burgelis*: 3,660
Miguel Aranda: 2,139
Write-in: 54
State Senator District 11 - Republican
Sandy Wiedmeyer: 1,916
Ellen Schutt: 1,509
Nick Polce: 887
Write-in: 3
State Senator District 11 - Democratic
Adam Duda: 1,575
Steven J. Doelder: 871
Write-in: 6
State Senator District 21 - Republican
Jim Croft: 4,735
Write-in: 5
State Senator District 21 - Democratic
Trevor Jung: 7,478
Write-in: 43
Representative to the Assembly District 33 - Republican
Steve Wicklund: 2,943
Rick Stacey: 1,320
Write-in: 5
Representative to the Assembly District 33 - Democratic
Maria Elena Bisabarros: 1,490
Rick Bailey: 988
Write-in: 4
Representative to the Assembly District 62 - Republican
Mike Bellagio: 2,313
Write-in: 9
Representative to the Assembly District 62 - Democratic
Angelina M. Cruz: 5,002
Write-in: 28
Representative to the Assembly District 63 - Republican
Robert Wittke: 2,371
Write-in: 3
Representative to the Assembly District 63 - Democratic
Eddie Phanichkul: 2,189
Write-in: 13
Representative to the Assembly District 66 - Republican
Gina Cefalu Paulick: 3,147
Write-in: 6
Representative to the Assembly District 66 - Democratic
Greta Neubauer: 5,523
Write-in: 19
Representative to the Assembly District 84 - Republican
Chuck Wichgers: 2,275
Write-in: 2
Representative to the Assembly District 84 - Democratic
Write-in: 41
Racine County Sheriff - Republican
Cary A. Madrigal: 9,820
Henry Perez: 5,605
Write-in: 27
Racine County Sheriff - Democrat
Donald E. Vandervest: 16,085
Write-in: 100
Racine County Clerk of Circuit Court - Republican
Amy Vanderhoef: 13,530
Write-in: 29
Racine County Clerk of Circuit Court - Democratic
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