Tom Chojnacki
Tom Chojnacki was a 2014 Democratic candidate for District 38 of the Wisconsin State Assembly.[1]
Campaign themes
2014
Chojnacki's campaign website highlighted the following issues:[2]
What does the state need to move forward?
Solid infrastructure
- Excerpt: "How can we have a first-class economy without the ability to move products to market, people to their jobs, and tourists into our state?"
World class education, from preschool to post-doctorate
- Excerpt: "How can we have a first-class economy without a labor force that has the skills needed at all levels of employment, from service workers to knowledge workers?"
Sound fiscal policy
- Excerpt: "Everyone who benefits from our society has an obligation to support the public assets that make those benefits possible."
Fairness and transparency in government
- Excerpt: "Too often our government is being influenced by interests from outside the state that don’t have Wisconsin’s best interests in mind."
- Excerpt: "Joel Kleefisch and the Republican legislature is conspiring to hobble democracy, with gerrymandered districts and voter ID – a solution in search of a problem. And of course there is a particular irony here."
Elections
2014
- See also: Wisconsin State Assembly elections, 2014
Elections for all 99 seats in the Wisconsin State Assembly 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. Tom Chojnacki was unopposed in the Democratic primary. Incumbent Joel Kleefisch was unopposed in the Republican primary. Chojnacki and Kleefisch faced off in the general election.[1][3] Incumbent Kleefisch defeated Choinack in the general election, and was re-elected for another term.[4]
Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | ![]() |
63% | 17,481 | |
Democratic | Tom Chojnacki | 37% | 10,281 | |
Total Votes | 27,762 |
Recent news
The link below is to the most recent stories in a Google news search for "Tom + Chojnacki + Wisconsin + Assembly"
- All stories may not be relevant to this legislator due to the nature of the search engine.
See also
- Wisconsin State Legislature
- Wisconsin state legislative districts
- Wisconsin State Assembly
- Wisconsin State Assembly elections, 2014
External links
- Official campaign website
- Tom Chojnacki on Facebook
- Tom Chojnacki on Twitter
- Biography from Project Vote Smart
- Legislative profile from Project Vote Smart
- Wisconsin State Legislature
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wisconsin Government Accountability, "Candidates Registered by Office," June 11, 2014
- ↑ Chojnacki for Assembly, "Issues," accessed October 27, 2014
- ↑ Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, "2014 Partisan Primary Candidates," accessed June 19, 2014
- ↑ Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, "Canvass Results for 2014 General Election," December 1, 2014