Lawrence Dale
Lawrence Dale (Democratic Party) ran in a special election to the U.S. House to represent Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District. He lost in the special Democratic primary on February 18, 2020.
Dale also ran for election to the Michigan House of Representatives to represent District 110. He lost in the Democratic primary on August 4, 2020.
Dale completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Dale received a bachelor’s degree in government from Ohio University and a master’s degree in industrial and labor relations from the University of Oregon’s College of Business. He served in the U.S. Army and was deployed to Vietnam. As of his 2020 campaign, Dale had worked in meat product sales and insurance sales.[1]
Elections
2020
Michigan House of Representatives District 110
See also: Michigan House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Michigan House of Representatives District 110
Incumbent Gregory Markkanen defeated Janet Metsa and Rick Sauermilch in the general election for Michigan House of Representatives District 110 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Gregory Markkanen (R) | 57.6 | 25,802 |
 | Janet Metsa (D)  | 41.2 | 18,457 | |
 | Rick Sauermilch (G) | 1.2 | 543 | |
| Total votes: 44,802 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 110
Janet Metsa defeated Lawrence Dale and Casey VerBerkmoes in the Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 110 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Janet Metsa | 72.7 | 6,897 |
 | Lawrence Dale | 17.1 | 1,623 | |
 | Casey VerBerkmoes | 10.2 | 963 | |
| Total votes: 9,483 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 110
Incumbent Gregory Markkanen advanced from the Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 110 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Gregory Markkanen | 100.0 | 8,990 |
| Total votes: 8,990 | |||
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Green convention
Green convention for Michigan House of Representatives District 110
Rick Sauermilch advanced from the Green convention for Michigan House of Representatives District 110 on June 20, 2020.
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| ✔ | | Rick Sauermilch (G) |
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Campaign finance
Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District
See also: Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District special election, 2020
Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District special election (February 18, 2020 Republican primary)
Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District special election (February 18, 2020 Democratic primary)
General election
Special general election for U.S. House Wisconsin District 7
Tom Tiffany defeated Tricia Zunker in the special general election for U.S. House Wisconsin District 7 on May 12, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Tom Tiffany (R) | 57.1 | 109,498 |
 | Tricia Zunker (D) | 42.9 | 82,135 | |
| Total votes: 191,633 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Robert Schuck (Independent)
- Dennis Frank Paulaha (Independent in the Middle Party)
- Douglas Lindee (Constitution Party)
Democratic primary election
Special Democratic primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 7
Tricia Zunker defeated Lawrence Dale in the special Democratic primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 7 on February 18, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tricia Zunker | 88.9 | 35,577 |
| Lawrence Dale | 11.0 | 4,388 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 34 | ||
| Total votes: 39,999 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Republican primary election
Special Republican primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 7
Tom Tiffany defeated Jason Church and Michael Opela Sr. in the special Republican primary for U.S. House Wisconsin District 7 on February 18, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tom Tiffany | 57.4 | 43,714 |
 | Jason Church | 42.5 | 32,339 | |
| Michael Opela Sr. (Write-in) | 0.0 | 18 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.0 | 29 | ||
| Total votes: 76,100 | |||
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2016
- See also: Wisconsin State Assembly elections, 2016
Elections for the Wisconsin State Assembly 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 Rob Swearingen defeated Matthew Michalsen in the Wisconsin State Assembly District 34 general election.[2][3]
| Wisconsin State Assembly, District 34 General Election, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican |  Rob Swearingen Incumbent |
63.04% | 21,686 | |
| Democratic | Matthew Michalsen | 36.96% | 12,715 | |
| Total Votes | 34,401 | |||
| Source: Wisconsin Elections Commission | ||||
Matthew Michalsen defeated Lawrence Dale in the Wisconsin State Assembly District 34 Democratic primary.[4][5]
| Wisconsin State Assembly, District 34 Democratic Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic | Matthew Michalsen |
77.00% | 2,109 | |
| Democratic | Lawrence Dale | 23.00% | 630 | |
| Total Votes | 2,739 | |||
Incumbent Rob Swearingen ran unopposed in the Wisconsin State Assembly District 34 Republican primary.[4][5]
| Wisconsin State Assembly, District 34 Republican Primary, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | |
| Republican | Rob Swearingen Incumbent (unopposed) | |
2014
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Sean Duffy Incumbent |
59.3% | 169,891 | |
| Democratic | Kelly Westlund | 39.4% | 112,949 | |
| Green | Lawrence Dale | 1.3% | 3,686 | |
| Independent | Rob Taylor - Write-in | 0% | 30 | |
| Republican | John Schiess - Write-in | 0% | 5 | |
| N/A | Scattering | 0% | 42 | |
| Total Votes | 286,603 | |||
| Source: Wisconsin Government Accountability Board | ||||
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Lawrence Dale completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Dale's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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His great grandfather homesteaded hundreds of acres in the Skanee area east of L'Anse beginning in the late 1800s. Lawrence is the fourth generation of his family to reside in the Western UP. Education: Lawrence graduated from Ohio University where he majored in Government and became interested in labor history. He received his Masters degree from the University of Oregon where he majored in Industrial and Labor Relations. Military: Lawrence served a one year tour of duty in remote areas of Vietnam in the U.S. Army Artillery and upon discharge used his G.I. Bill educational benefits to finance his education. Work History: After graduating from the University of Oregon, Lawrence worked for several national and local labor organizations mostly representing healthcare workers at public and private hospitals, nursing homes, county homes. He represented bus drivers, cafeteria, custodial workers in schools and represented and organized private sector building services janitors to save their healthcare benefits.
Lawrence represented workers interests for many years as lead spokesman in collective bargaining and as union spokesman before administrative law forums such as State, Federal and National Labor Boards.- The interests of working families, individuals retirees and the poor will be at the forefront of all policy initiatives.
- We cannot rely solely on factory farms to provide food security to the 110th District.
- We must focus onstopping the further degradation of the Great Lakes by runnoff fromConcentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) such as industrial dairy farms.
Rural Infrastructure: Given that rural Districts in Michigan were food self sufficient up until the late 1940s, and given that the current factory farm supply chain is not reliable, we must position our District to become food self secure. This calls for tapping USDA Rural Development funding for building the infra-structure necessary to become food self sufficient.
The reason I look up to Huey Long is because he always put the interests of the working people first.
We must make sure that everyone who works is paid a living wage, has a right to a state financed education, single payer health coverage, state sponsored quality child care for working families, move our energy requirements to renewable energy to fight the Climate Crisis, rapidly phase out factory farms and incentivize development of small family farm operations to make our State food self sufficient
So this is what would be considered the ideal relationship where everyone agrees that taking steps to save the most lives. Not so for those corrupted legislators who owe their allegiance to Trump and extremist billionaire Big Oil interest who call the pandemic a hoax and stir up sentiment against the policy as if we were not in a state of emergency. This is seditious behavior stirred up by antidemocratic forces, financed by billionaire extremists seeking to uoverthrow our democratic form of government.
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Campaign website
Dale's campaign website stated the following:
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We must make the February 16th Special election and the entire Special Election process a Referendum on the Republicans' Party leadership's role in their obvious collusion with Big Agriculture interest' CAFOs that are destroying thousands of small , environmental sustainable small businesses in the Dairy Sector. As the investigative Report cited below which was recently published by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, we know that the State's Republican "leadership knew the following: 1. Taking away Home Rule and giving the right to locate up to 6,000 or more cows next door to any given Wisconsin citizen's private property effectively violates our Constitutional Rights to Life Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This policy effectively outlaws our ability to protect our communities from known dangerous health hazards and hives CAFOs the right of eminent domain allowing them to move into Wisconsin neighborhoods unchallenged by elected local community officials as the Report below describes; 2. The Report also describes the Republican leadership initiative, 2012's Grow Wisconsin Dairy which duped small dairy operations to increase the supply of raw milk at a time when there was no growing demand and at a time when family farms were closing due to oversupply. Given this Report, the evidence is clear: the Republican Party leadership has colluded with their Big Agriculture CAFO contributors to throw the small family farm operations under the bus so that CAFOs can take over their share of the market. Too many jobs are being lost in the pulp and paper industry in the 7th District. Lawrence’s Green New Deal has plans for exploiting the exciting new multi faceted profit making potential embodied in hemp production. Once elected , Lawrence will direct his staff to research federal, state, tribal and foundation sources to fund multiple commercially viable cooperative manufacturing ventures. But before that, professionally researched feasibility studies will be commissioned to determine the best high demand and most sustainable employment products derived from raw hemp. In Germany, for example, manufacturers now use hemp pulp to fashion molding for auto interiors. Read More about Lawrence's Platform:Green New Deal (continued) Lawrence completed a comprehensive feasibility study titled: “Report on the Feasibility of Building a Commercially Viable Slaughterhouse, Meat Processing, Direct Marketing Farm Cooperative"). His study was found to be commercially viable then by an expert cooperative agriculture economist from North Dakota State University. It proved it could be commercially viable for a farmers' cooperative using a corporate cooperative business model, could capture enough of a niche market from the multi-million dollar high demand meat products market to be profitable. And once the cooperative was operational, it could create hundreds of new family farm businesses in our District. Why? Because there are numerous cost saving advantages that small farm operations have over factory farms in this particular product line. Read More about Lawrence's Platform:Green New Deal #2 (continued) The number one cause of bankruptcies for Americans over age 50 is the inability to pay medical bills, especially after becoming seriously ill which is when more expensive medical measures need to be taken.On a per capita basis, American expenditure for health care is double that of Canadians who have free healthcare. Medicare for All would also provide Long Term Care (LTC) coverage.To be eligible for LTC in Wisconsin, one has to go through the indignity of liquidating all their assets down to only $2,000 in order to be eligible for the Family Care LTC program. See Medicare For All Plan at: Bernie's Plan Read More about Lawrence's Platform:Medicare for All (continued) We know that all the best peer reviewed studies of the Pre K find that three and four year olds do better academically and socially if they attend Pre K taught by professional educators. Pre-K’s purpose is to help our children learn cooperative behaviors when dealing with other children and adults in resolving differences. It is important that 3 and 4 year old children learn at that tender age how to settle conflicts with other children and adults in a respectful, civil manner. As your Congressman, Lawrence will collaborate with state, federal, tribal, educators and others to initiate the fight to make universal free Pre K available to all 3 and 4 year olds. Pre K will require hundreds of new, certified Pre-K teachers. Once implemented, this job creation stimulus will generate millions of new dollars flowing through our District's economy. The U.S Supreme Court ruled in 2010 in a case entitled: Citizens United v. U.S. Federal Elections Commission,that corporations are permitted to use unlimited corporate treasuries to interfere in our democratic elections. Citizens United is, a Koch fortune sponsored organization.The extremist Kochs' specialize in spreading distortions, misinformation and lies against opposing candidates in order to promote their own climate change denying commercial interests.They accomplish this by spending their fortune financing "climate change deniers", by financing right wing Tea Party organizations to rationalize corporate welfare and also fund pseudo Christian fanatics to stir up hate against Koch's proxy(s) political opponents. Read More about Lawrence's Platform:Citizen United#2 Lawrence will support Congressional legislation to decriminalize marijuana and purge all felony records of those convicted exclusively of marijuana possession and distribution. Marijuana has been extensively vetted in many states and legalized because no medical evidence could be found indicating it is harmful in any way. Most states that have legalized marijuana heavily regulate and tax the producers and retailers. Nevertheless, it's legalization in Wisconsin would create hundreds of new employment opportunities and provide millions of new tax dollars to our State Treasury. This new source of revenue could provide needed resources to fund programs such as free universal Pre K creating hundreds if not thousands of new , good paying teaching jobs. It is patently wrong to continue the practice of making felons out of those who are caught with a substance that causes no harm.[6] |
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| —Lawrence Dale[7] | ||
See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Lawrence Dale 2020 Campaign Website, "About Lawrence Dale," accessed December 8, 2019
- ↑ Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, "Candidates on Ballot by Election - 2016 General Election - 11/8/2016," accessed November 4, 2016
- ↑ Wisconsin Elections Commission, "2016 Fall General Election Results," accessed December 2, 2016
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, "Candidate Tracking by Office," accessed June 20, 2016
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Wisconsin Elections and Ethics Commission, "2016 Partisan Primary," accessed September 16, 2016
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Lawrence Dale 2020 campaign website, "Platform," accessed January 13, 2020
