Mark Neumann (Wisconsin congressional candidate)

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Mark A. Neumann

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August 9, 2022

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Mark A. Neumann (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional District. He lost in the Democratic primary on August 9, 2022.

Neumann completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Elections

2022

See also: Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional District election, 2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Wisconsin District 3

Derrick Van Orden defeated Brad Pfaff in the general election for U.S. House Wisconsin District 3 on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Derrick Van Orden (R)	51.8	164,743
		Brad Pfaff (D)	48.1	152,977
		Other/Write-in votes	0.1	202

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 317,922
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Rustin Provance (L)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 3

Brad Pfaff defeated Rebecca Cooke, Deb McGrath, and Mark A. Neumann in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 3 on August 9, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Brad Pfaff	38.9	24,041
		Rebecca Cooke	31.1	19,221
		Deb McGrath	19.1	11,770
		Mark A. Neumann	10.8	6,672
		Other/Write-in votes	0.0	25

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 61,729
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Brett Knudsen (D)
• Justin Bradley (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 3

Derrick Van Orden advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 3 on August 9, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Derrick Van Orden	99.3	65,164
		Other/Write-in votes	0.7	471

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 65,635
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Denise Hurless (R)

2020

See also: Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional District election, 2020

Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional District election, 2020 (August 11 Democratic primary)

Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional District election, 2020 (August 11 Republican primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Wisconsin District 3

Incumbent Ronald James Kind defeated Derrick Van Orden in the general election for U.S. House Wisconsin District 3 on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Ronald James Kind (D)	51.3	199,870
		Derrick Van Orden (R)	48.6	189,524
		Other/Write-in votes	0.1	224

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 389,618
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 3

Incumbent Ronald James Kind defeated Mark A. Neumann in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 3 on August 11, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Ronald James Kind	80.6	53,064
		Mark A. Neumann	19.4	12,765
		Other/Write-in votes	0.0	12

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 65,841
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Justin Bonner (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 3

Derrick Van Orden defeated Jessi Ebben in the Republican primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 3 on August 11, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Derrick Van Orden	65.9	36,395
		Jessi Ebben	34.1	18,835
		Other/Write-in votes	0.0	21

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 55,251
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Tim Peters (R)
• John Garske (R)
• Kevin Ruscher (R)
• Jonathan Sundblom (R)
• Alex Virijevich (R)
• Brandon Cook (R)
• Shannon Moats (R)

Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Mark A. Neumann completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Neumann's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Mark served as a Franciscan brother for twenty years, with six of those years as a medical missionary in a central African country known as Zaire at the time. He served as a pediatrician for thirty-five years and continues to serve as a father and husband in the La Crosse community. Mark wants to continue service to his western Wisconsin community by helping to make democracy work for us all. Good governance makes it possible for people to live well so that everyone will thrive with family, friends and neighbors.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• Heathcare is a right for everyone. It's time to enact a universal healthcare system. It's time to protect abortions. It's time for Medicare for All.
• Corporate money has no place in politics. It's time to take corporate contributions out of campaigns.
• The climate crisis is real and it's affecting Western Wisconsin. We can transition to clean energy sources and create millions of jobs while we do it.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

In the United States today, healthcare financing is an expensive bureaucratic mess. Private insurers make billions by taking in premiums and then working hard to find ways to avoid paying them out. We need to replace a system designed to guarantee corporate profits with one that is designed to increase the health of our American people. We need to join the rest of the industrialized world, and institute a universal healthcare financing system. In Congress, I will co-sponsor the Medicare for All Act.

We must ensure that working people do not bear the economic burden of our necessary transition to a greener economy. We can save American families money with investments in weatherization, public transportation, modern infrastructure, and high-speed broadband. In Congress, I will support ongoing and increased incentives for climate resiliency, public transport, and green infrastructure.

The bedrock of our voting systems is the hard work, devotion, and integrity of hundreds of thousands of local elections officials across our country. Our votes are our voices that represent our lives and hopes for our future. Every person who votes needs to have their voices heard and their lives respected. I support a popular vote election of our president, the creation of non-partisan congressional representative districts, a decrease legal voting age to 16yo, and support of a national Election Day holiday for voting in federal elections. In Congress, I will support the John Lewis Voting

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2020

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Campaign website

Neumann's campaign website stated the following:

“	The purpose of our government is to achieve healthy people and a healthy place to live. When we have the courage to make our government so that it is “of the people, by the people and for the people,” we build communities of healthy people living on a healthy planet. For democracy to work it depends upon people who recognize one another as neighbors caring for one another and for the shared place where we live. Medicare For All Single payer, publicly funded, national healthcare insurance is the most economical and most equitable way to achieve full healthcare services for all people. Human wellbeing is the birthright of every baby born into our world. Every mother giving birth knows that her newborn takes that first breath to grow and thrive to the fullness of life. Parents know their children need to thrive way more than just simply survive. As a community we make a place where children can flourish into fullness of life. As a community we must care for one another and provide comprehensive healthcare services to all members of our society. Healthcare services for us all make it possible for us all to thrive and live wholesome lives into our elder years. Until that last day when we can live no more. It is true: no one gets sick alone. It is true: we can only experience health together. Climate Our country needs to be on the vanguard leading the way within the community of all nations on earth to mount an effective response to our climate change emergency. All life on our planet is experiencing huge stress from our rapidly changing climate caused by the increase of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. Fortunately, we can do something about this by working together to control the emission and accumulation of greenhouse gases. It is incumbent upon all people sharing life on earth to respond to this climate emergency. We must do what we can to mitigate the effects of environmental damage that have already occurred. We need to manage, with fairness for all on earth, the many climate changes that are yet to come. Militarism We need to engage in dynamic international collaboration and diplomacy in place of threatening militarism as a way to strive for achieving world security. The earth is too small and too frail for reliance upon wars to solve problems of human discord. Military weapons are way too powerful and too wasteful of immense resources for them to ever be used again in any all-out war. At the same time the simple threat of war and the exercise of clandestine military interventions to obtain questionable goals of geopolitical importance waste time and attention from committed and effective diplomatic interventions. The earth faces a climate emergency and all nations must collaborate to meet the challenge of responding to that emergency. Attempting to rely upon militaristic solutions will never get us to where we need to go as a human family inhabiting our small world. We need to move beyond our militarist urge. We need to find a better way. Oligarchy Replacing Democracy The disparity of wealth and power among our citizens is our greatest threat to successful democratic government. For the sake of continuing our democracy we must respond effectively to resolve this threat. In every age human economies always tend to concentrate wealth and power into the control of fewer people. Those who have some wealth are always able to gain more wealth and power more quickly than those who do not have wealth. This economic imbalance historically results in periodic violent revolution and wars that produce a leveling of the economic playing field. After these periodic crises the cycle of wealth accumulation by a minority at the expense of a loss of power by the majority repeats itself. It is time to find a better solution. If unable to do so, democratic governance will be displaced by oligarchic rule. This is not good. There is a way out of this repetitive cycle, and we need to be courageous enough to find it. At Gettysburg our 16th President Abraham Lincoln spoke about this same challenge that is still before us. "Our founders brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all are created equal." We are not a nation of lords and serfs. We are not a nation of two classes for those who have power and those who have not. We are a nation of equals. Our President at Gettysburg went on to challenge us to "here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."	”
—Mark Neumann's campaign website (2020)

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Wisconsin's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Tammy Baldwin (D)

Ronald Johnson (R)

Representatives

District 1

Bryan Steil (R)

District 2

Mark Pocan (D)

District 3

Derrick Van Orden (R)

District 4

Gwen Moore (D)

District 5

Scott Fitzgerald (R)

District 6

Glenn Grothman (R)

District 7

Tom Tiffany (R)

District 8

Tony Wied (R)

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