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Matt Adamczyk
Matt Adamczyk (Republican Party) was the Wisconsin Treasurer. He assumed office in 2015. He left office in 2019.
Adamczyk (Republican Party) ran for election to the Wisconsin State Assembly to represent District 14. He lost in the general election on November 6, 2018.
Adamczyk was the Republican Wisconsin treasurer from 2015 to 2019.[1] He was first elected in the November 2014 general election, and assumed office on January 5, 2015, succeeding Kurt Schuller (R).[2][3] Adamczyk did not file to run for re-election in 2018.
Adamczyk was a 2012 Republican candidate for District 13 of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Political career
Wisconsin Treasurer (2015-2019)
Adamczyk was first elected to the treasurer's office on November 4, 2014. He was sworn into office on January 5, 2015, replacing predecessor Kurt Schuller (R). Adamczyk did not file to run for re-election in 2018. He left office in January 2019.
Elections
2018
- See also: Wisconsin State Assembly elections, 2018
General election
General election for Wisconsin State Assembly District 14
Robyn Vining defeated Matt Adamczyk, Rick Braun, and Steven Shevey in the general election for Wisconsin State Assembly District 14 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Robyn Vining (D) | 48.6 | 16,597 |
 | Matt Adamczyk (R) | 48.2 | 16,459 | |
 | Rick Braun (L) | 2.0 | 691 | |
 | Steven Shevey (Moderation Party) | 1.2 | 402 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.0 | 13 | ||
| Total votes: 34,162 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Wisconsin State Assembly District 14
Robyn Vining advanced from the Democratic primary for Wisconsin State Assembly District 14 on August 14, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Robyn Vining | 100.0 | 6,210 |
| Total votes: 6,210 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Wisconsin State Assembly District 14
Matt Adamczyk defeated Robin Moore, Linda Boucher, and Joshua Parr in the Republican primary for Wisconsin State Assembly District 14 on August 14, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Matt Adamczyk | 48.9 | 3,580 |
| Robin Moore | 35.8 | 2,619 | ||
| Linda Boucher | 8.4 | 614 | ||
| Joshua Parr | 6.9 | 508 | ||
| Total votes: 7,321 | |||
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Libertarian primary election
Libertarian primary for Wisconsin State Assembly District 14
Rick Braun advanced from the Libertarian primary for Wisconsin State Assembly District 14 on August 14, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Rick Braun | 100.0 | 23 |
| Total votes: 23 | |||
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2014
Adamczyk ran for election to the office of Wisconsin Treasurer.[1] Adamczyk won the Republican nomination in the primary on August 12. Matt Adamczyk won the general election on November 4, 2014.
Results
Primary election
| Wisconsin Treasurer Republican Primary, 2014 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
 Matt Adamczyk |
61.8% | 132,598 | ||
| Randall Melchert | 38.2% | 82,117 | ||
| Total Votes | 214,715 | |||
| Election results via Wisconsin Government Accountability Board. | ||||
General election
| Wisconsin Treasurer, 2014 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Matt Adamczyk |
48.8% | 1,120,140 | |
| Democratic | David Sartori | 44.7% | 1,026,548 | |
| Green | Ron Hardy | 2.9% | 66,120 | |
| Libertarian | Jerry Shidell | 2.3% | 53,113 | |
| Constitution | Andrew Zuelke | 1.2% | 28,053 | |
| Nonpartisan | Scattering | 0.1% | 1,244 | |
| Total Votes | 2,295,218 | |||
| Election results via Wisconsin Government Accountability Board | ||||
2012
- See also: Wisconsin State Assembly elections, 2012
Adamczyk initially declared to run in the 2012 election for Wisconsin State Assembly District 13. However, he did not appear on the primary ballot.[4]
Campaign themes
2014
Adamczyk's campaign website listed the following themes for the 2014 election:
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I am running for state treasurer on the pledge to eliminate the position. The antiquated office no longer is needed and has become a prime example of wasteful government spending. Governor Walker and the Republican legislature have removed almost all duties that once were the responsibility of the state treasurer and transferred those duties to other agencies. I fully support this effort by Governor Scott Walker and the Republican legislature to save tax dollars with these efficiencies. My campaign consists of five pledges I’m making to the residents of Wisconsin if elected: 1. Pledge to work tirelessly to eliminate the Office of State Treasurer 2. Pledge to use the position to find government waste and eliminate it 3. Pledge to never waste taxpayer money 4. Pledge to return 25% of salary to taxpayers 5. Pledge to only serve one term The only constitutional duty of the Wisconsin State Treasurer is to serve on the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands (BCPL). Serving on this board literally consists of two 15-minute phone calls per month. I feel it is wasteful to spend tax dollars on a four person staffed office for just one responsibility. That is why I fully support the Republican amendment, AJR 48, which would replace the state treasurer with the lieutenant governor on the BCPL. [5] |
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| —Matt Adamczyk's campaign website, (2014) | ||
Campaign finance summary
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Noteworthy events
Support for eliminating treasurer's office
Immediately after being sworn in as the new state treasurer, Adamczyk set out to fulfill a series of campaign promises he made the previous year to reduce inefficiencies and wasteful spending in Wisconsin's government—starting with his own office, which he pledged to dismantle from the inside.[2] By the time Adamczyk was elected treasurer in November 2014, the majority of the office's responsibilities had already been stripped and transferred to other agencies by various governors (including Gov. Scott Walker) and legislative action, until the treasurer's office consisted of a mere three-person staff.[7] All three were let go by mid-January 2015 as a result of Adamczyk's plan to dismantle the office.[3] He insisted he was "more than happy to run the office" alone.[2] To eliminate the office unilaterally, he would need a constitutional amendment.[6]
Tensions with state Board of Commissioners of Public Land
A rivalry began between Adamczyk and Tia Nelson, the executive secretary of the Wisconsin Board of Commissioners of Public Land, on which the treasurer serves alongside the attorney general and secretary of state.[2] Adamczyk made contact with Nelson the week after winning the general election, asking her to remove the names of elected officials on the board's letterhead. One month later, he moved for Nelson's name to be removed from the letterhead as well, and requested the board cancel its subscription to the New York Times. "We live in Wisconsin and we don't need a subscription to this publication," he complained.[2]
The state board of commissioners of public land controls a substantial trust that distributes funds to libraries and loans money to cities and school districts across Wisconsin. Nelson became the first target of Adamczyk's mission to root out sources of wasteful government spending due to suspicions that Nelson's history of environmentalism had affected her capacity to serve neutrally in the role of secretary. The treasurer placed a controversial request to view records detailing Nelson's management of state-funds and even some information about her private political affiliations. "I don't want people doing their personal passions during work hours," he explained later.[3] Nelson reacted to the request by instructing her staff "to document all contacts they've had with Adamczyk, which includes typing up rough transcripts of their conversations with him in some cases."[3]
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matt Adamczyk for State Treasurer, "About Matt," accessed April 23, 2014
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 The Journal Sentinel, "Adamczyk clashes with board's secretary on numerous issues," January 20, 2015
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 The Journal Sentinel, "New state treasurer lays off staff to fulfill campaign pledge," January 24, 2015
- ↑ Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, "Candidates on Ballot by Election - 2012 Partisan Primary 8/14/2012," accessed June 12, 2012
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Friends of Matt Adamczyk, "Why I'm Running," accessed August 11, 2014
- ↑ Wisconsin Office of the State Treasurer, "Staff Directory," accessed January 26, 2015
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by Kurt Schuller (R) |
Wisconsin Treasurer 2015-2019 |
Succeeded by Sarah Godlewski (D) |
