Dmitry Becker
Dmitry Becker (Republican Party) ran for election for Wisconsin Secretary of State. He did not appear on the ballot for the Republican primary on August 9, 2022.
Becker was a 2016 Republican write-in candidate for District 28 of the Wisconsin State Senate.
Biography
Becker graduated from New Berlin West High School in 2015. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee prior to joining the Wisconsin National Guard. He is a member of the 135th Medical Company based in Waukesha.[1][2]
Elections
2022
See also: Wisconsin Secretary of State election, 2022
General election
General election for Wisconsin Secretary of State
Incumbent Douglas J. La Follette defeated Amy Loudenbeck, Neil Harmon, and Sharyl McFarland in the general election for Wisconsin Secretary of State on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Douglas J. La Follette (D) | 48.3 | 1,268,748 |
 | Amy Loudenbeck (R) | 48.0 | 1,261,306 | |
 | Neil Harmon (L) | 2.1 | 54,413 | |
 | Sharyl McFarland (G) | 1.6 | 41,532 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.0 | 944 | ||
| Total votes: 2,626,943 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Wisconsin Secretary of State
Incumbent Douglas J. La Follette defeated Alexia Sabor in the Democratic primary for Wisconsin Secretary of State on August 9, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Douglas J. La Follette | 63.6 | 300,773 |
 | Alexia Sabor | 36.4 | 171,954 | |
| Total votes: 472,727 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Wisconsin Secretary of State
Amy Loudenbeck defeated Jay Schroeder and Justin Schmidtka in the Republican primary for Wisconsin Secretary of State on August 9, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Amy Loudenbeck | 46.3 | 264,940 |
 | Jay Schroeder | 39.9 | 228,191 | |
 | Justin Schmidtka | 13.8 | 78,846 | |
| Total votes: 571,977 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Dmitry Becker (R)
Libertarian primary election
Libertarian primary for Wisconsin Secretary of State
Neil Harmon advanced from the Libertarian primary for Wisconsin Secretary of State on August 9, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Neil Harmon | 95.8 | 769 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 4.2 | 34 | ||
| Total votes: 803 | |||
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2020
See also: Wisconsin State Assembly elections, 2020
General election
General election for Wisconsin State Assembly District 84
Incumbent Mike Kuglitsch won election in the general election for Wisconsin State Assembly District 84 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Mike Kuglitsch (R) | 96.2 | 25,031 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 3.8 | 994 | ||
| Total votes: 26,025 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Wisconsin State Assembly District 84
Incumbent Mike Kuglitsch advanced from the Republican primary for Wisconsin State Assembly District 84 on August 11, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mike Kuglitsch | 99.5 | 5,078 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.5 | 23 | ||
| Total votes: 5,101 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Dmitry Becker (R)
Campaign finance
2018
Two of the seven seats on the New Berlin School District Board of Education in Wisconsin were up for at-large general election on April 3, 2018. Incumbents Jeffrey Kurth and Susan Manley defeated challenger Dmitry Becker.[3][4]
General election
General election for New Berlin School District school board At-large (2 seats)
Incumbent Susan Manley and incumbent Jeffrey Kurth defeated Dmitry Becker in the general election for New Berlin School District school board At-large on April 3, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Susan Manley (Nonpartisan) | 39.1 | 3,672 |
| ✔ |  | Jeffrey Kurth (Nonpartisan) | 36.6 | 3,437 |
 | Dmitry Becker (Nonpartisan) | 24.3 | 2,282 | |
| Total votes: 9,391 | |||
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2017
Two of seven seats on the New Berlin School District school board were up for at-large general election on April 4, 2017. Incumbent Amy Crosby and newcomer Krislyn Holaday-Wondrachek defeated incumbent Dave Maxey and challenger Dmitry Becker in the race.[5]
Results
| New Berlin School District, At-Large General Election, 3-year terms, 2017 |
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|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Amy Crosby Incumbent |
31.96% | 2,215 |
| Krislyn Holaday-Wondrachek |
29.25% | 2,027 |
| Dave Maxey Incumbent | 27.54% | 1,909 |
| Dmitry Becker | 11.25% | 780 |
| Total Votes | 6,931 | |
| Source: Waukesha County Clerk, "2017 Spring Election," accessed April 4, 2017 These election results are unofficial and will be updated after official vote totals are made available. | ||
2016
- See also: Wisconsin State Senate elections, 2016
Elections for the Wisconsin State Senate took place in 2016. The primary election took place on August 9, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was June 1, 2016. Incumbent Mary Lazich (R) did not seek re-election.
Dave Craig ran unopposed in the Wisconsin State Senate District 28 general election.[6][7]
| Wisconsin State Senate, District 28 General Election, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Dave Craig (unopposed) |
100.00% | 70,269 | |
| Total Votes | 70,269 | |||
| Source: Wisconsin Elections Commission | ||||
Dave Craig ran unopposed in the Wisconsin State Senate District 28 Republican primary.[8][9]
| Wisconsin State Senate, District 28 Republican Primary, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | |
| Republican | Dave Craig (unopposed) | |
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Dmitry Becker did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2020
Dmitry Becker did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
- See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
Dmitry Becker participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on January 23, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Dmitry Becker's responses follow below.[10]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | 1) Establishing Financial Security for the Future: Debt Reduction, Expenditure Reduction and Tax Stability 2) Reforming the Educational Atmosphere: Revamping Technical/ Vocational Opportunities, Opening New Post-Secondary Educational Options, and New Academic Planning |
” |
What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | Public Education, Fiscal Responsibility, and District Transparency are all items that I believe in strongly as they work off of each other. By building a strong public education system that works to the advantage of the students and instills strong civic ethics in them, we see that financial responsibility will naturally occur and greater transparency will as well. I believe strongly in building a better community for all.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[12]
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Dmitry Becker answered the following:
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?
| “ | Two people look up to are Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Gov. John Kasich of Ohio due to their moderate beliefs that work for everyone within their respected communities.[12] | ” |
| “ | Being the youngest candidate for the position, I bring a new set of ideas that doesn't currently exist on the board as well as bringing a need voice for one of the primary stakeholders, students.[12] | ” |
| “ | The primary job of the school board is to provide the best possible educational atmosphere that they can within the limits of the resources that exist to them.[12] | ” |
2017
Ballotpedia survey responses
Dmitry S. Becker participated in Ballotpedia's 2017 survey of school board candidates.[13] In response to the question "What do you hope to achieve if elected to the school board?" the candidate stated on January 21, 2017:
| “ | N/A[11][12] | ” |
Ranking the issues
The candidate was asked to rank the following issues based on how they should be prioritized by the school board, with 1 being the most important and 7 being the least important. Each ranking could only be used once.
| Education policy |
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Click here to learn more about education policy in Wisconsin. |
| Education on the ballot |
| Issue importance ranking | |
|---|---|
| Candidate's ranking | Issue |
| Improving post-secondary readiness | |
| Balancing or maintaining the district's budget | |
| Improving relations with teachers | |
| Expanding school choice options | |
| Closing the achievement gap | |
| Expanding arts education | |
| Improving education for special needs students | |
| “ | N/A[12] | ” |
| —Dmitry S. Becker (January 21, 2017) | ||
Positions on the issues
The candidate was asked to answer eight questions from Ballotpedia regarding significant issues in education and the school district. The questions are highlighted in blue and followed by the candidate's responses. Some questions provided multiple choices, which are noted after those questions. The candidate was also provided space to elaborate on their answers to the multiple choice questions.
| Should new charter schools be approved in your district? (Not all school boards are empowered to approve charter schools. In those cases, the candidate was directed to answer the question as if the school board were able to do so.) |
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| No. Our district has enough schools already that adding more would be unrealistic and inefficient. |
| Which statement best describes the ideal relationship between the state government and the school board? The state should always defer to school board decisions, defer to school board decisions in most cases, be involved in the district routinely or only intervene in severe cases of misconduct or mismanagement. |
| The state should defer to school board decisions in most cases. |
| Are standardized tests an accurate metric of student achievement? |
| No. Students in the same state, let alone district, do not learn the same ways as other students in completely different states. Standardized testing fails students who are not good test takers and cause skewed results which causes even more problems. |
| How should the district handle underperforming teachers? Terminate their contract before any damage is done to students, offer additional training options, put them on a probationary period while they seek to improve or set up a mentorship program for the underperforming teacher with a more experienced teacher in the district? |
| Set up a mentorship program for the underperforming teacher with a more experienced teacher in the district. |
| Should teachers receive merit pay? |
| No. At this time, I don't believe we have a good way of determining of how to show achievement in the classroom other than tests. As such, I don't believe at this time a merit pay system should exist within the school district, however, I do believe that a system could exist with a plan in place to determine standards. |
| Should the state give money to private schools through a voucher system or scholarship program? |
| No. Money that is allocated to a public school district should go to that district. |
| How should expulsion be used in the district? |
| It must be a last resort. For many of these students kicking them out of the district will not help their case in any way or form so in doing so we place a burden on them that will effect them for a very long time. |
| What's the most important factor for success in the classroom: student-teacher ratio, the curriculum, teachers, parent involvement or school administration? |
| Teachers Teachers are the driving force behind education. They are the one who wake up in the morning and go into schools to teach your students. They are the most important factor in a child's success in education. |
Additional themes
Becker's campaign website listed the following themes for 2017:
| “ |
Standards of Education: Common Core to School Policy Budget: Reforming and Creating a More Efficient Budget Community Involvement: For a Unified Community Behind Education |
” |
| —Dmitry Becker (2017) | ||
2016
In a biographical submission to Ballotpedia, Becker detailed the following campaign themes:[1]
Education
- Excerpt: "Within the Education sector, I want to replace Common Core with a system for Wisconsin that stops comparing our students with other states. The second major education item I want to tackle is reducing or cutting the cost of attending public universities for Wisconsin students. We can do this by reforming the state's welfare system and other systems to free up unnecessarily spent money."
Job Creation/Employment
- Excerpt: "Within the Job Sector, I have three main goals. One, make sure that companies and jobs don't leave our state. Two, bring new companies and jobs into the state in order to open up the job market. Three, make sure that college students who graduate in the next 20 years have a reasonable job and security behind it."
State Rights
- Excerpt: "The last issue is State Rights. I want to see the role of the federal government in Wisconsin to be decreased and allow the state to take over some of its responsibilities. I also want to see them stop involving themselves in state affairs such homosexual marriage which should be decided by the people of a state not a federal court."
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Information submitted through Ballotpedia's biographical submission form on January 17, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Becker for School Board, "Issues and Bio," accessed February 1, 2017
- ↑ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Candidates line up for Oak Creek, other school board seats in the southern suburbs," January 3, 2018
- ↑ Waukesha County Elections, "2018 Spring Election Unofficial Results," accessed April 3, 2018
- ↑ Waukesha County Clerk, "2017 Spring Election," accessed April 5, 2017
- ↑ Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, "Candidates on Ballot by Election - 2016 General Election - 11/8/2016," accessed November 4, 2016
- ↑ Wisconsin Elections Commission, "2016 Fall General Election Results," accessed December 2, 2016
- ↑ Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, "Candidate Tracking by Office," accessed June 20, 2016
- ↑ Wisconsin Elections and Ethics Commissions, "2016 Partisan Primary," accessed September 16, 2016
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Dmitry Becker's responses," January 23, 2018 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "BPsurvey" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
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