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042260 Political Note #286 Tricia Zunker WI CD 07
2020 Special Election. Lost Special Election. Running in the General Election
Let’s begin with how smart, hard-working, and ambitious Tricia Zunker https://triciaforwisconsin.com/ is. She went to the University of Wisconsin, Madison where she majored in French. And where she majored in Political Science. And where she majored in International Relations. And where she minored in European Studies. From Madison, she went to Los Angeles, — UCLA Law School.
She got a job teaching. California School of Law in Santa Barbara where she became Dean of Faculty.. Not just that. Tricia Zunker started a business. Tutors for the Bar Exam. She started a consulting service. A Los Angeles type of consulting. Submitting film scripts for consideration. She started a law firm.
Tricia Zunker is no longer in California. She’s in Wisconsin. Home. An Associate Justice of the Ho-Chunk Nation Supreme Court. At-Large Member and President of the Wassau School Board, the town in which her grandfather farmed.
Tricia Zunker is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation. If she is elected to Congress, she will join two other Native American women in Congress, both Democrats. Laguna Pueblo Deb Haaland of New Mexico and another Ho-Chunk, Sharice Davids of Kansas. The two Republican Native Americans in Congress are from Oklahoma — Cherokee Markwayne Mullin and Chicasaw Tom Cole.
Tricia Zunker is thirty-nine and the single mother of one child. Her opponent, Tom Tiffany, has been an Assemblyman and a State Senator. His success was not easy to come by. He was defeated twice in primaries for State Senator. His website declares his loyalty to the President. A little less than nimble, though, his website promises spending cuts and reductions in the deficit – not what is happening now in the face of the Coronavirus. His pet project has been to remove the gray wolf from the list of endangered species.
Tricia Zunker is facing Tom Tiffany in Wisconsin’s most rural district. The district includes central Wisconsin as well as the north and northwestern part of the state. This is farm country. Dairy farms. Farms that grow grain, oilseeds, beans, and peas. The district is more than 90% white. Native Americans are 2% of the district’s population. Median income is $57,000.
Sean Duffy, who resigned due to a family illness, was elected to represent the District in Congress nine times. A Republican, he was unopposed four of those times. The closest a Democrat came to defeating him was in 2010, when he won by 8 points. =
The people of WI 07 are not unfamiliar with Democrats. Democrat, David Obey, was elected twenty-one times before he retired in 2011. Al Gore, John Kerry, and Barack Obama in 2008 carried the district by narrow margins. Mitt Romney won narrowly in 2012, but Donald Trump carried the district by nearly twenty points in 2016.
Wisconsin has already had one election this spring. On April 7, after infighting and court cases about delaying the election, notwithstanding the Coronavirus, Wisconsin voted. Polls were open. At least 70% of the votes were by absentee ballot. Many absentee ballots weren’t counted. They were still in post offices. They were delivered to homes on election day – too late to be notarized and returned and counted. Despite that measure of chaos, the Democratic candidate for Supreme Court won a surprise victory.
In Wisconsin 07, they will hold their special election. Those who want to vote in person will be able to. WSAW-TV says the town clerks have and have had enough time to get absentee ballots out to those who wanted them. The television station is convinced that voting will go smoothly.
Will this election be another surprise? Can Tricia Zunker win? Tom Tiffany raised $1.2 million. He outraised Tricia Zunker 4-1. He spent a lot, though, against a tough primary opponent. As of March 31, he had $250,000 cash on hand. Tricia Zunker spent some of her money, too, staying visible. On March 31, she had $100,000. Niether has a lot of money to close out the campaign. There really are only a few days left. The Special Election is on May 12. Help Tricia Zunker https://triciaforwisconsin.com compete. Another Democratic victory is possible. Help make it happen. Give her some help now.
Below are Congressional seats Democrats are trying to flip from incumbent Republicans. The ones with asterisks ran in 2018* In 2018, Democrats flipped 40 Republican seats in the House. Let’s flip 20 more.
Congress
Arizona 06 Hiral Tipirneni* to beat incumbent David Schweikert
Arkansas 02. Joyce Elliott to beat incumbent French Hill
California 50 Ammar Campa-Hajjar* to win this now open Rep seat
Florida 16 Margaret Good to beat incumbent Vern Buchanan
Illinois 13 Betsy D Londrigen* to beat incumbent Rodney Davis
Indiana 05 Christina Hale to win this open Republican seat
Iowa 04 JD Scholten* to beat incumbent Steve King
Kansas 02 Michelle De La Isla to beat incumbent Steve Watkins
Michigan 03. Hillary Scholten to defeat incumbent Independent Justin Amash and the Republican nominee
Michigan 06 Jon Hoadley to beat incumbent Fred Upton
Minnesota 01 Dan Feehan* to beat incumbent Jim Hagedorn
Missouri 02 Jill Schupp to beat incumbent Ann Wagner
Montana AL Kathleen Williams* to win this open Republican seat
New York 02 Jackie Gordon to win this open Republican seat
New York 21 Tedra Cobb* to beat incumbent Elise Stefanic
New York 24 Dana Balter* to beat incumbent John Katko
Ohio 04 Mike Larsen to beat incumbent Jim Jordan
Pennsylvania 10 Eugene DePasquale to beat incumbent Scott Perry
Texas 02 Sima Ladjervardian to beat incumbent Dan Crenshaw
Texas 21 Wendy Davis to beat incumbent Chip Roy
Texas 22 Sri Preston Kalkuri to win this open Republican seat
Texas 23 Gina Ortiz Jones* to win this open Republican seat
Washington 03 Carolyn Long* to beat incumbent Jaime Herrera Beutler
Wisconsin 07 Special. Tricia Zunker to win the open Republican seat
