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Mary Lazich
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Republican Party

Prior offices
Wisconsin State Assembly
Wisconsin State Senate District 28

Education

Bachelor's

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Mary Lazich (b. October 3, 1952) is a former Republican member of the Wisconsin State Senate, representing District 28 from 1998 to 2017. In 2003, she was the Majority Caucus Chairperson. She also served as President of the Senate from 2015 to 2017.

Lazich did not seek re-election to the Wisconsin State Senate in 2016.

Lazich served in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1993 to 1999.

Biography

Lazich attended University of Wisconsin-Waukesha and earned a B.A. from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Lazich was a Board member of Waukesha County from 1990 to 1993 and a member of the New Berlin City Council from 1986 to 1992.[1]

Committee assignments

2015 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Lazich served on the following committees:

2013-2014

At the beginning of the 2013 legislative session, Lazich served on the following committees:

2011-2012

In the 2011-2012 legislative session, Lazich served on the following committees:

2009-2010

In the 2009-2010 legislative session, Lazich served on the following committees:

Issues

2011 unemployment bill

Lazich was one of three Republican state senators, including Glenn Grothman and Rich Zipperer, who voted no on the Wisconsin State Senate's version of an unemployment bill in July 2011.

The bill, which could eliminate a newly instituted one-week waiting period on the receipt of unemployment benefits, passed in the Senate with a vote of 30-3. State officials said the one-week waiting period is a crucial part of the effort to root out fraud, but the bill works to eliminate it.

Democratic Senator Robert Jauch called the one-week waiting period “a 55 million dollar highway robbery of workers."[2]

After the initial Senate vote, the Assembly voted 81-16 to retain the one-week waiting period.[3] The Senate then moved to agree with the Assembly along party lines, with a 19-14 vote, retaining the one-week waiting period.[4]

Redistricting reform

In an opinion piece for the Wisconsin State Journal, Lazich argued that redistricting should stay in the hands of elected officials. She argued that having a nonpartisan panel draft redistricting maps, as Iowa does, would further remove voting citizens from the decisions of their government. "As government continues a troubling pattern of delegating decisions to unelected bureaucrats, we slip further away from representative government. The effect of removing politics from political decisions is a growing disinterest among citizens resulting in an unhealthy democracy," Lazich wrote. She also cited a 2012 study that found political polarization actually increased in states with nonpartisan redistricting.[5]

The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.


Elections

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 Green check mark transparent.png 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 Green check mark transparent.png Dave Craig  (unopposed)

2012

Lazich won re-election in the 2012 election for the Wisconsin State Senate, District 12 seat. She ran unopposed in the primary election and defeated Jim Ward (D) in the general election on November 6, 2012.[10]

Wisconsin State Senate, District 28, General Election, 2012
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Jim Ward 36.5% 35,053
     Republican Green check mark transparent.pngMary Lazich Incumbent 63.4% 60,854
     - Scattering 0.1% 103
Total Votes 96,010

2011 recall

See also: Recall of Wisconsin State Senators (2011)

The Democratic Party of Wisconsin began a recall campaign targeting Lazich and seven of her Republican colleagues in the Wisconsin State Senate in March 2011.[11] Organizers were unable to collect the necessary 20,973 signatures by the May 2 deadline to force a recall, falling about 2,000 short.[12]

2008

On November 4, 2008, Lazich won re-election to the Wisconsin State Senate, District 28. She was unopposed.[13]

Lazich raised $57,326 for her campaign[14]

Wisconsin State Senate, District 28 (2008)
Candidates Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Mary Lazich (R) 74,951

Campaign finance summary

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Mary Lazich campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2012Wisconsin State Senate, District 28Won $50,103 N/A**
2008Wisconsin State Senate, District 28Won $57,326 N/A**
2004Wisconsin State Senate, District 28Won $52,135 N/A**
2000Wisconsin State Senate, District 28Won $115,062 N/A**
1998Wisconsin State Senate, District 28Won $275,145 N/A**
Grand total$549,771 N/A**
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

Personal

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Lazich is married and has three children. She is involved with the Waukesha County Republican Party.[1]

Scorecards

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2016

In 2016, the Wisconsin State Legislature was in session from January 12 through March 15.

Legislators are scored on whether they voted for or against MMAC's position.
Legislators are scored on their votes on small business issues.
Legislators are scored on their votes on conservative issues.
Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to labor policy.
Legislators are scored by the Wisconsin Family Action on their votes on legislation related to "marriage, family, the sanctity of human life, or religious freedom."[15]
Legislators are scored on their stances on conservation issues.
Legislators are scored on their votes on legislation WMC deemed as "most important issues for the business community."
Legislators are scored on their votes by the Wisconsin Professional Police Association on legislation related to Wisconsin's law enforcement community.
Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to environmental issues.

2015


2014


2013


2012

Recent news

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See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Project Vote Smart, "Biography," accessed May 5, 2014
  2. ↑ "Amended Unemployment Bill Could Hamper Fraud Detection Efforts," MacIver News Service, July 20, 2011
  3. ↑ Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau, "Wisconsin Legislative Spotlight: The Week of August 1, 2011," November 19, 2012
  4. ↑ The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, "Senate leaves in place one-week wait for jobless benefits," August 1, 2013
  5. ↑ The Wisconsin State Journal, "Sen. Mary Lazich: Redistricting should stay in hands of elected officials," August 18, 2013
  6. ↑ Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, "Candidates on Ballot by Election - 2016 General Election - 11/8/2016," accessed November 4, 2016
  7. ↑ Wisconsin Elections Commission, "2016 Fall General Election Results," accessed December 2, 2016
  8. ↑ Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, "Candidate Tracking by Office," accessed June 20, 2016
  9. ↑ Wisconsin Elections and Ethics Commissions, "2016 Partisan Primary," accessed September 16, 2016
  10. ↑ Wisconsin Government Accountability Board "2012 Candidate List (dead link)
  11. ↑ AOL News, "Wisconsin Election Recall Reality Check," February 23, 2011
  12. ↑ Patch, "Efforts to Recall Mary Lazich Appear to Have Fallen Short," May 2, 2011 (dead link)
  13. ↑ Government Accountability Board, "Wisconsin State Election Results, 2008," accessed May 6, 2014
  14. ↑ Follow the Money, "2008 contributions," accessed May 6, 2014
  15. ↑ Wisconsin Family Action, "2015-2016 legislative scorecard," accessed May 31, 2017
  16. ↑ Wisconsin Family Action, "2015-2016 legislative scorecard," accessed May 31, 2017
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