[Hunton Peck]

Charles Sykes
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Sources: Delinquent tax issue really killed Simac. GOP needs to work on candidate recruitment and vetting.
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[MestaMachine]

Dayum!

[GonzoGOP]

Some closure for Simac, but she is running out of districts. We need to see a big move before 50% to keep this interesting.

State Senate - District 12 - General
August 16, 2011 - 09:09PM CT
Wisconsin - 70 of 166 Precincts Reporting - 42%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Holperin , Jim (i) Dem 10,985 54%
Simac , Kim GOP 9,293 46%


State Senate - District 22 - General
August 16, 2011 - 09:09PM CT
Wisconsin - 18 of 100 Precincts Reporting - 18%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Steitz , Jonathan GOP 8,745 55%
Wirch , Bob (i) Dem 7,170 45%

[freedomwarrior998]

http://www.co.kenosha.wi.us/countyclerk/election_results/voteresult.phtml

Robert W. Wirch (DEM) 15302 57.65
Jonathan Steitz (REP) 11200 42.2
Write-in 40 0.15

The DEMs are going to win both of these.

[newzjunkey]

Ouch.

I wondered about the vague appeals for Simac cash that went out nationally from another WI senator on her behalf. That sheds some light.

[Principle Over Politics]

If it were not for Kim I doubt that there would have been a recall of Possum Jim Holperin at all. She did a heck of a lot of organizing to get it this far. I didn’t see a lot of help for her from the republicans until just this last week when the anti-Holperin ads started to show up.

She could have ran a better campaign though. Not showing up for rallies in her support when people expected her to be there did not help at all. I attended the one in Rhinelander and was amazed she was not there to address the large crowd of supporters.

Also, waiting until the last 3 weeks of her campaign to get out some detailed policy positions was just plain negligent.