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Dick Cates

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Dick Cates
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Dick Cates was a 2014 Democratic candidate for District 51 of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Campaign themes

2014

Cates' campaign website highlighted the following issues:[1]

As your state representative I will:

  • Excerpt: "Prioritize funding for our rural public schools and stop the increase of vouchers"
  • Excerpt: "Focus on job creation through broadband expansion, renewable energy development, farm-to-community food connections, infrastructure improvement and worker retraining for jobs in the 21st-century work place"
  • Excerpt: "Commit to help grow Wisconsin agriculture"
  • Excerpt: "Champion efforts to conserve and protect farmland and our natural resources"
  • Excerpt: "Support rural health care to ensure that every person has access to excellent, affordable care"
  • Excerpt: "Safeguard our tradition of local control over community decisions"
  • Excerpt: "Join the effort to take politics out of the redistricting process"
  • Excerpt: "Strive toward an open, just and strong society where all have equal rights and equal opportunities to live meaningful, secure lives"

Elections

2014

See also: Wisconsin State Assembly elections, 2014

Elections for all 99 seats in the Wisconsin State Assembly took place in 2014. A primary election took place on August 12, 2014. The general election was held on November 4, 2014. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was June 2, 2014. Dick Cates was unopposed in the Democratic primary. Todd Novak defeated Dennis Polivka, Ken Rynes and Tyler Schultz in the Republican primary. Adam Laufenberg ran as a Libertarian. Novak defeated Cates and Laufenberg in the general election. Curt Peterson (R) and Charles Nichols (R) were removed from the ballot before the primary elections.[2][3][4]

Wisconsin State Assembly, District 51 General Election, 2014
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.pngTodd Novak 47.5% 10,642
     Democratic Dick Cates 47.2% 10,577
     Libertarian Adam Laufenberg 5.3% 1,177
Total Votes 22,396
Wisconsin State Assembly, District 51 Republican Primary, 2014
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngTodd Novak 48.3% 2,262
Tyler Schultz 19.7% 922
Ken Rhino Rynes 18.3% 859
Dennis Polivka 13.6% 639
Total Votes 4,682

Endorsements

2014

In 2014, Cates' endorsements included the following:[5]

  • US Senator Herb Kohl
  • US Congressman Mark Pocan
  • State Representative, 80th WI Assembly District, Sondy Pope
  • State Representative, 81st WI Assembly District, Fred Clark
  • Craig Culver, CEO and Co-Founder, Culvers Franchising

Recent news

The link below is to the most recent stories in a Google news search for "Dick + Cates + Wisconsin + Assembly"

All stories may not be relevant to this legislator due to the nature of the search engine.

Dick Cates News Feed

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Cates for Assembly, "Issues," accessed October 27, 2014
  2. ↑ Wisconsin Government Accountability, "Candidates Registered by Office," June 11, 2014
  3. ↑ Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, "2014 Partisan Primary Candidates," accessed June 19, 2014
  4. ↑ Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, "Canvass Results for 2014 General Election," December 1, 2014
  5. ↑ Cates for Assembly, "Endorsements," accessed October 27, 2014


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