Vote for Fred, Paul, Lulu, and Jesus

A local HLWW school board ballot was among several illustrations used in a KARE-11 story Tuesday night about write-in votes and the gubernatorial recount. It showed votes for candidates Fred Yerke and Paul Weibel, along with write-ins for Lulu and Jesus.

This ballot is apparently from the 2008 election, which was used for illustrative purposes in the story, but wouldn’t have been involved this year.

See the full story here:
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=881280&catid=396

Several new candidates have filed for local offices

McLEOD, WRIGHT, AND CARVER COUNTIES – Several new candidates stepped forward to file for local city, school board, and township seats before Tuesday’s deadline. Following are some local seats for which more than one candidate filed:

Three seats are open on the Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted School Board. Incumbents Jamie Wiech and Dan Schaible re-filed, and Fred Yerke and Joanne Kocher filed.

There are also three seats open on the Lester Prairie School Board. Incumbents Fred Blaser, Chester Hoernemann, and Robert Carlson filed. Mathew Klitzke and Greg Machemehl also filed.

In Waverly, Keith Harris has re-filed for city council., and Mayor Ken Antil filed for city council. Lee Hall and Ben Duske also filed for council seats.

In Mayer,three new candidates filed for city council. They include Dan Lueth, Erick Boder, and Paul Malmberg.

In Howard Lake,Pete Zimmerman and Mike Mitchell re-filed for council. Allan Munson also filed for city council.

In Winsted, George Schulenberg filed for city council. Incumbents Tom Wiemiller and Dave Mochinski re-filed for council.

In Lester Prairie, four candidates filed for the two available council seats. Incumbent Ron Foust re-filed, and Sandie Adams-Bruin, Tamara Vergin, and Eric Angvall filed for council seats.

In New Germany, Jason Kamerud filed for the mayor seat. Current mayor Pete Pederson did not seek re-election.

Some local townships are also conducting elections this fall.

In Camden Township, there are two supervisor positions open. These are designated separately on the ballot, and candidates must file for a specific seat.

There are three candidates for Seat A. They are Bruce Clark (incumbent), Marcus Lhotka, and Gerald Goede.

In Hollywood Township, three candidates filed for Supervisor C, including Curtis Thaemert (incumbent), Lynn Herrmann, and Jim Burns.

Two candidates filed for Supervisor B, including Ron Kassulker (incumbent) and Elwin Bauer.

Chuck Schuft re-filed for the treasurer position.

In Bergen Township, Francis Burch filed for the one open supervisor position, and Melissa Tonn re-filed for the treasurer position.

Wright County commissioner race narrowed to two

WRIGHT COUNTY, MN – As of 10 p.m. Tuesday, the unofficial results of the primary election showed a clear separation between the three candidates for Wright County commissioner in District 5. With 88 percent of the precincts reporting, incumbent Richard “Dick” Mattson was in the lead with 1,143 votes (45 percent); Leonard Wozniak of Cokato was in second place with 908 votes (36 percent), and Tom LaPlant of Buffalo was in third place with 501 votes (20 percent). Based on these totals, Mattson and Wozniak would go on to the general election in November.

District 5 includes Albion Township, the City of Cokato, Cokato Township, French Lake Township, the City of Howard Lake, the City of Maple Lake, and Marysville, Middleville, Montrose, South Haven, Southside, Stockholm, and Victor townships.

UPDATE: According to Wright County Election Supervisor Gloria Gooler, there was a technical problem that prevented Wright County data from being uploaded properly Tuesday night. As a result, staff members are diligently working on manually entering the results from 39 precincts. Updated results will be posted when available.

HLWW referendum results: first two pass; third fails by 84

HOWARD LAKE, WAVERLY, WINSTED, MN – Voters approved the first two questions on the ballot tonight, with the third question failing by only 84 votes (see an explanation of each ballot question below, underneath the precinct breakdowns).

Unofficial election results for the operating levy questions for Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted School District are as follows:

Question one passed, with a grand total of 1,399 yes votes and 801 no votes.

Question two passed, with a grand total of 1,117 yes votes and 1,077 no.

Question three failed with a total of 1,048 yes votes and 1,132 no votes. Read more

Lynch wins in Carver Co.

County Commissioner Tim Lynch won his seat back in Carver County.
Commissioner – District 4:
Tim Lynch – 4,404 (elected)
Paul Neumann – 4,084

Winsted re-elects incumbents

Unopposed incumbents were returned to office Tuesday:

Mayor:
Steve Stotko – 1,039 (elected)

Council Member:
Tom Ollig – 939 (elected)
Bonnie Quast – 863 (elected)

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