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Roger Roth
Roger Roth (Republican Party) was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate, representing District 19. He assumed office on January 5, 2015. He left office on January 3, 2023.
Roth (Republican Party) ran in a special election to the U.S. House to represent Wisconsin's 8th Congressional District. He lost in the special Republican primary on August 13, 2024.
Roth also ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Wisconsin's 8th Congressional District. He lost in the Republican primary on August 13, 2024.
Biography
Roth received his B.A. in history from the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh. He served in the Wisconsin Air National Guard and worked as a home builder.
He is a member of the American Legion, Appleton Northside Business Association, National Federation of Independent Business, National Rifle Association (NRA), Outagamie County Republican Party, and the Winnebago County Republican Party.[1]
Elections
2024
Regular election
See also: Wisconsin's 8th Congressional District election, 2024
Wisconsin's 8th Congressional District election, 2024 (August 13 Republican primary)
Wisconsin's 8th Congressional District election, 2024 (August 13 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Wisconsin District 8
Tony Wied defeated Kristin Lyerly in the general election for U.S. House Wisconsin District 8 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Tony Wied (R) ![]() | 57.3 | 240,040 |
![]() | Kristin Lyerly (D) ![]() | 42.6 | 178,666 | |
Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 272 |
Total votes: 418,978 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 8
Kristin Lyerly advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 8 on August 13, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Kristin Lyerly ![]() | 100.0 | 56,469 |
Other/Write-in votes | 0.0 | 25 |
Total votes: 56,494 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 8
Tony Wied defeated Roger Roth and André Jacque in the Republican primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 8 on August 13, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Tony Wied ![]() | 42.1 | 41,937 |
![]() | Roger Roth | 34.5 | 34,344 | |
![]() | André Jacque ![]() | 23.3 | 23,186 | |
Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 65 |
Total votes: 99,532 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Mike Gallagher (R)
Endorsements
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Special election
See also: Wisconsin's 8th Congressional District special election, 2024
General election
Special general election for U.S. House Wisconsin District 8
Tony Wied defeated Kristin Lyerly in the special general election for U.S. House Wisconsin District 8 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Tony Wied (R) | 57.2 | 242,003 |
![]() | Kristin Lyerly (D) | 42.8 | 181,196 | |
Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 232 |
Total votes: 423,431 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Special Democratic primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 8
Kristin Lyerly advanced from the special Democratic primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 8 on August 13, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Kristin Lyerly | 99.9 | 57,390 |
Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 30 |
Total votes: 57,420 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Erik Eisenheim (D)
Republican primary election
Special Republican primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 8
Tony Wied defeated Roger Roth and André Jacque in the special Republican primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 8 on August 13, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Tony Wied | 43.5 | 42,610 |
![]() | Roger Roth | 32.5 | 31,874 | |
![]() | André Jacque | 24.0 | 23,509 | |
Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 64 |
Total votes: 98,057 | ||||
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Endorsements
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2022
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
See also: Wisconsin gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2022
General election
General election for Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
Sara Rodriguez defeated Roger Roth in the general election for Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Sara Rodriguez (D) | 51.7 | 1,358,774 | |
![]() | Roger Roth (R) | 48.3 | 1,268,535 |
Total votes: 2,627,309 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
Sara Rodriguez defeated Peng Her and Angela Kennedy in the Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin on August 9, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Sara Rodriguez | 76.4 | 354,260 | |
![]() | Peng Her ![]() | 23.5 | 108,766 | |
![]() | Angela Kennedy (Write-in) | 0.0 | 39 | |
Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 589 |
Total votes: 463,654 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Lena Taylor (D)
- David Bowen (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin on August 9, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Roger Roth | 30.1 | 178,972 |
![]() | Patrick Testin | 18.4 | 109,374 | |
![]() | Cindy Werner | 13.6 | 80,953 | |
![]() | Jonathan Wichmann | 13.3 | 79,166 | |
![]() | Will Martin ![]() | 9.2 | 54,790 | |
![]() | Kyle Yudes ![]() | 5.4 | 32,051 | |
![]() | David Varnam | 5.1 | 30,640 | |
![]() | David King | 4.6 | 27,443 | |
Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 1,612 |
Total votes: 595,001 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Ben Voelkel (R)
Campaign finance
Wisconsin State Senate
- See also: Wisconsin State Senate elections, 2022
Roger Roth did not file to run for re-election.
2018
- See also: Wisconsin State Senate elections, 2018
General election
General election for Wisconsin State Senate District 19
Incumbent Roger Roth defeated Lee Snodgrass in the general election for Wisconsin State Senate District 19 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Roger Roth (R) | 53.2 | 43,493 |
![]() | Lee Snodgrass (D) | 46.7 | 38,179 | |
Other/Write-in votes | 0.0 | 29 |
Total votes: 81,701 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Wisconsin State Senate District 19
Lee Snodgrass defeated Dan Grady in the Democratic primary for Wisconsin State Senate District 19 on August 14, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Lee Snodgrass | 64.0 | 8,157 |
Dan Grady | 36.0 | 4,585 |
Total votes: 12,742 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Wisconsin State Senate District 19
Incumbent Roger Roth advanced from the Republican primary for Wisconsin State Senate District 19 on August 14, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Roger Roth | 100.0 | 12,933 |
Total votes: 12,933 | ||||
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2014
- See also: Wisconsin State Senate elections, 2014
Elections for 17 seats in the Wisconsin State Senate 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. Penny Bernard Schaber ran unopposed in the Democratic primary, while Roger Roth ran unopposed in the Republican primary. Roth defeated Schaber in the general election.[2][3][4]
Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
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Republican | ![]() |
57.2% | 41,628 | |
Democratic | Penny Bernard Schaber | 42.8% | 31,135 | |
Total Votes | 72,763 |
2010
- See also: Wisconsin State Assembly elections, 2010
Roth did not seek re-election to District 56 in 2010. He ran for U.S. Congress, 8th District. He was defeated in his race for U.S. Congress.[5]
Campaign themes
2024
Regular election
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Campaign website
Roth’s campaign website stated the following:
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Secure the Border |
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—Roger Roth’s campaign website (2024)[7] |
Special election
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2022
Roger Roth did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
Roth's campaign website stated the following:
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An Economy that Works Working on his family’s small business, Roger knows that crushing inflation, runaway government spending, and ever-increasing taxes cost families and business owners each and every day. Roger successfully fought off billions in tax increases from the Evers administration, including taxes on federal rescue grants. He voted against the state providing cover to runaway federal spending – spending that has driven the skyrocketing inflation here in Wisconsin and has added trillions to our national debt. Roger has continued the fight for a strong economy with his proposal to eliminate the state income tax, a move that will save Wisconsin families thousands, help retirees remain in Wisconsin, and allow small businesses and entrepreneurs to reinvest those savings in their workers and our state’s economy. With families across Wisconsin feeling the stress of rising prices at the pump and grocery store, no other candidate has a record of delivering significant tax reform and fighting against big government’s inflationary policies.
As the proud father of five boys, Roger knows that children best succeed when their parents are involved. As a strong advocate of choice, Roger is willing to take on the task of finally ensuring that every family in Wisconsin has a choice. But Roger isn’t just talking the talk. He has taken on special interests and unions despite their attacks on him and his family. Roger is the author of legislation to establish a Parental Bill of Rights, ensure Curriculum Transparency, and provide Universal School Choice to every family – successfully passing these bills in the legislature for the first time in the history of Wisconsin. Despite some candidates speaking in platitudes, Roger is willing to do the hard work and give every student a fair shake. Roger trusts parents whether a family chooses to send their child to public school, charter school, private school, or homeschool.
Wisconsin voters should follow the same rules whether they vote in Ashland or Appleton. Roger is the only candidate to lead the charge to ensure election integrity, authoring legislation, and constitutional amendments to ensure security and consistency in our state elections. From reforming absentee ballot procedures to fighting “Zuckerbucks” buying votes in Wisconsin cities, no other candidate has done more to secure our vote than Roger Roth. Roger authored the constitutional amendment guaranteeing that citizens, and ONLY Citizens, can vote in Wisconsin elections, protecting our state against the radical leftist trends of states like New York and California.
Democrats in Wisconsin have made clear over the past four years that they do not want to hold criminals accountable. Tony Evers has stoked racially divisive rhetoric that supported armed felons over police response, refused to deploy the national guard, allowed our cities to burn in the wake of violent protests, and hired bureaucrats who sought to let murderers out of prison. Our state needs a fighter who will not only stand with the rule of law but also listen to victims rather than pandering to the radical left. Roger trusts our local officers to protect their communities. He has authored legislation to help recruit, retain, and train law enforcement to put more officers on the streets and in our communities. He has stood with the families of murder victims, pushing out radical bureaucrats who let out cop killers and murderers. Roger will continue to fight for legislation preventing liberals from defunding the police and constitutionally guaranteeing that law enforcement funding goes directly to law enforcement, not socialist pet projects.
As the proud father of five, Roger and his family don’t just say they are pro-life, they live it every day. Roger Roth firmly believes that all babies deserve a chance at life. Despite radical moves from liberals to push partial-birth abortion, abortion on demand, or murdering a child based on their sex, Roger has stood to thwart the left’s ruthless ambition to end the life of thousands of future Wisconsinites. As part of his commitment to life, Roger authored the Born-Alive Survivors Protection Act to guarantee that abortion survivors have a shot at life and those who would murder them face the full force of law.
Throughout his time in office, Roger has consistently stood in defense of Wisconsin residents’ constitutional rights. From protecting freedom of speech to leading the charge in expanding 2nd amendment protections of WI residents, Roger has worked tirelessly against liberal special interests from Wisconsin and Washington D.C. when others refuse to act. As Lt. Governor, Roger will ensure Wisconsin residents can speak their minds, worship how they want, and protect their families without fear.[6] |
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—Roger Roth's campaign website (2022)[8] |
2014
Roth's campaign website highlighted the following issues:[9]
Jobs and the Economy
- Excerpt: "My top legislative priority is getting the Fox Valley back to work. Government doesn’t create jobs; people do. Too often, government regulations and taxes put our businesses at a competitive disadvantage. In my business as a homebuilder, I know firsthand how frustrating it is to wade through bureaucratic red tape and jump through unnecessary hoops. I will work for pro-growth policies that will allow our workforce to thrive. It’s best to let the private sector do its job and I’m determined to do what it takes to help jump-start our economy."
Lower Taxes
- Excerpt: "The tax burden on the hard-working families of the 19th Senate District is still too high. Wisconsin residents deserve to keep more of their hard-earned money to spend any way they choose. Under the previous administration, our business climate in Wisconsin was one of the worst in the country. Fortunately, Governor Walker and the legislature have made progress on property tax relief. And enacted one of the larges income tax cuts in state history. For the first time in over a dozen years, the statewide median property tax on a median value home declined. This is a significant step in the right direction after years of regular tax increases and I will continue to fight to lower taxes and encourage responsible budgets."
Prioritizing Education
- Excerpt: "I will work with local educators to find creative solutions the challenges that face our districts, while looking out for taxpayers."
- Excerpt: "Unfortunately, not all children are awarded the same opportunity to attend great schools like those that grow up in the Fox Valley. For that reason, I support a limited expansion of the school choice program, focused on under-achieving school districts and targeted income levels. I also agree that fair assessments are necessary when taxpayer dollars are involved. Students are not afforded the luxury of time while educators work to turn around failing schools and the school choice program provides an opportunity for parents to make the decision to put their child in the best position possible to learn."
Transportation and Infrastructure
- Excerpt: "The first step and most critical step to restoring taxpayer confidence is passing the constitutional amendment for a segregated transportation fund that will be on the ballot this November 4th. Only then can we begin to have an honest conversation about how to restore the fund and provide the dollars necessary to maintain our transportation infrastructure."
Waste, Fraud and Abuse
- Excerpt: "Time and again, we turn on the television or open a newspaper to a story outlining waste, fraud and abuse in a government program. One of the easiest steps we can take is assuring that taxpayer dollars are at least being utilized as intended. Whether its waste within specific government departments, people taking advantages of loopholes in programs, or businesses utilizing the safety net to shift costs, abuses of taxpayers dollars should be eliminated. Every dollar we can identify that is being spent unwisely can help those truly in need and provide taxpayer relief."
Committee assignments
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2021-2022
Roth was assigned to the following committees:
- Information Policy and Technology Committee
- Joint Legislative Council Committee
- Housing, Commerce and Trade Committee, Vice Chair
- Insurance, Licensing and Forestry Committee
- Universities and Technical Colleges Committee, Chair
- Utilities, Technology, and Telecommunications Committee, Vice Chair
- Veterans and Military Affairs and Constitution and Federalism Committee
2019-2020
Roth was assigned to the following committees:
- Employment Relations Committee, Co-Chair
- Joint Legislative Council Committee, Co-Chair
- Legislative Organization Committee, Co-Chair
- Senate Organization Committee
2017 legislative session
At the beginning of the 2017 legislative session, this legislator served on the following committees:
Wisconsin committee assignments, 2017 |
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• Senate Organization |
• Employment Relations, Co-chair |
• Information Policy and Technology |
• Joint Legislative Council, Co-chair |
• Legislative Organization, Co-chair |
2015 legislative session
At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Roth served on the following committees:
Wisconsin committee assignments, 2015 |
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• Insurance, Housing, and Trade |
• Workforce Development, Public Works, and Military Affairs, Chair |
• Sporting Heritage, Mining, and Forestry, Vice Chair |
• Information Policy and Technology |
Sponsored legislation
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2022
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2021
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In 2021, the Wisconsin State Legislature was in session from January 4 to December 31.
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2020
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In 2020, the Wisconsin State Legislature was in session from January 14 to May 13.
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2019
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In 2019, the Wisconsin State Legislature was in session from January 7, 2019 through January 13, 2020.
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2018
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In 2018, the Wisconsin State Legislature was in session from January 16 through March 27. Special sessions were held from January 1 through February 27 and from March 15 through March 29.
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2017
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In 2017, the Wisconsin State Legislature was in session from January 3 through December 31. There were also special sessions. The first special session was January 5. The second special session was August 1 through September 15.
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2016
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In 2016, the Wisconsin State Legislature was in session from January 12 through March 15.
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2015
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In 2015, the Wisconsin State Legislature was in session from January 5 through December 31.
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Project Vote Smart - Assemblyman Roth
- ↑ Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, "2014 Partisan Primary Candidates," accessed June 19, 2014
- ↑ Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, "Candidates Registered by Office," June 11, 2014
- ↑ Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, "Canvass Results for 2014 General Election," December 1, 2014
- ↑ www.postcrescent.com, "Roger Roth says political future still open," January 23, 2011
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Roger Roth’s campaign website, “Issues,” accessed July 26, 2024
- ↑ Roger Roth, “About,” accessed October 20, 2022
- ↑ Roth for Wisconsin, "Issues," accessed October 23, 2014
- ↑ Wisconsin Family Action, "2015-2016 legislative scorecard," accessed May 31, 2017
- ↑ Wisconsin Family Action, "2015-2016 legislative scorecard," accessed May 31, 2017
- ↑ Wisconsin Family Action, "2015-2016 legislative scorecard," accessed May 31, 2017
- ↑ Wisconsin Family Action, "2015-2016 legislative scorecard," accessed May 31, 2017
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Preceded by - |
Wisconsin State Senate District 19 2015-2023 |
Succeeded by Rachael Cabral-Guevara (R) |
Preceded by - |
Wisconsin State Assembly District 56 2007-2011 |
Succeeded by - |