4-2-14 dodge county races

City of Mayville voters have elected Bob Redeker to be their mayor.  Redeker, a current alderman, defeated another current alderman, Rob Boelk by a vote of 478 to 395.  Former alderman Bob Smith, who was an official write-in candidate, received 89 votes.  Redeker says he’s honored, and says " it’s a new day in Mayville."  Redeker says he wants better and more open communication between city government and Mayville citizens.  Mayville also had two contested aldermanic races.  In Ward 6, Joseph Hohmann defeated Thomas Stollenwerk by a single vote- 41 to 40.  And in Ward 4/7/8, Vince Longo mounted a successful write-in campaign, defeating Sharon Chmielewski 152 to 116.  

The City of Juneau has a new mayor.  Voters elected Dan Wegener over incumbent Mayor Ron Bosak by a vote of 397 to 186.  Wegener was a Juneau Utility Comissioner for 25 years, with 16 of those years as Utility President.  With the amount of work he put into his campaign, Wegener says he expected a big win.   There was one contested aldermanic race.  By a vote of 72 to 68, Kendra Hayden defeated Robert Affeld for the Ward 2 seat.  And the Dodgeland School District had two contested races.  Anthony Cox defeated Jason Schall for the at-large seat.  And two open seats representing the City of Juneau and the Town of Oak Grove will be filled by Stacy Schmitt and Troy Schliesman.  Schmitt and Schliesman were the top two vote-getters from a field of four.

 

Incumbent Fox Lake Mayor Tom Bednarek has been elected to a third term.  Bednarek defeated current alderman Andrew Bath by a vote of 155 to 141.  Bednarek says he was relieved to be elected mayor again and he thanked the voters for their support. 

In other contested races in Dodge County , Mary Morgan defeated incumbent Rob Radig 35 to 11 in the Ward 14 aldermanic race in the City of Beaver Dam .  Jim Grigg defeated Craig Muenchow 310 to 98 for a seat on the Horicon School Board.  And Ken Leistico, Brian Miller, and Glenn Hoover will fill three trustee seats in the Village of Reeseville .

 

Two incumbent Dodge County Board members were re-elected, while a third was defeated in Tuesday’s election.  In all, Dodge County had five contested board races.  In District 2, incumbent and current Board Chairman Russ Kottke defeated Vicky Bartoli 107 to 60.  In District 4, incumbent Ed Nelson defetaed Don Burcham 153 to 59.  In District 5, challenger Janice Bobholz defeated incumbent Jeffrey Schmitt 170 to 162.  Larry Schraufnagel defeated Ronald Adelmeyer 128 to 108 for the Distict 16 seat.  And Dennis Schmidt defeated Clarence Chase 346 to 212 for the District 24 seat.