NEXT TUESDAY IS THE SPRING
PRIMARY.
STATEWIDE, VOTERS WILL CHOOSE
WHICH TWO SUPREME COURT
CANDIDATES ADVANCE TO THE
APRIL ELECTION.
ALSO ON THE BALLOT IN NORTHERN
WISCONSIN'S 7TH CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT IS THE PRIMARY FOR A
SPECIAL ELECTION TO REPLACE
CONGRESSMAN SEAN DUFFY, WHO
RESIGNED LAST FALL.
"HERE AND NOW" REPORTER ZAC
SCHULTZ MET WITH ALL FAWR FOUR
CANDIDATES AND HAS THIS REPORT.
>> CONGRESSIONAL SEATS DON'T
COME OPEN VERY NAWRCH WISCONSIN,
SO IT'S NO WISCONSIN A SPECIAL
ELECTION IN THE 7TH BROUGHT OUT
TWO REPUBLICANS AND TWO
DEMOCRATS.
THE MAN WITH THE MOST NAME
RECOGNITION IS REPUBLICAN STATE
SENATOR TOM TOM TIFFANY.
>> I'VE BEEN PUTTING 50,000
MILES A YEAR ON REPRESENTING THE
12TH DISTRICT, SO IT'S JUST MORE
TERRITORY TO COVER.
>> TIFFANY IS CAMPAIGNING ON HIS
RECORD IN MADISON, ADVANCING
FORMER GOVERNOR SCOTT WALKER'S
CONSERVATIVE AGENDA.
>> I'VE HELPED DRAIN THE SWAMP
IN MADISON.
I WILL DO THE SAME IN WASHINGTON
D.C.
I HAVE THE TRACK RECORD TO PROVE
IT.
MADISON DID NOT CHANGE ME.
WASHINGTON D.C. WILL NOT EITHER.
>> I ALWAYS LIKE TO SAY I'VE
NEVER LEFT WISCONSIN
VOLUNTARILY.
IT'S ALWAYS BEEN ON ORDERS.
>> JASON CHURCH IS A VETERAN,
ALSO RUNNING AS A REPUBLICAN.
HE'S WITHINBEEN WORKING IN SENATOR RON
JOHNSON'S OFFICE.
>> I WAS INJURED AS A PLATOON
LEADER, LOST BOTH MY LEGS.
I CAME BACK AND RECOVERED AT
WALTER REED.
IN THE MIDDLE OF MY RECOVER I
MET SENATOR RON JOHNSON.
>> HE'S RUNNING AS AN OUTSIDER
AND A SUPPORTER OF TERM LIMITS.
>> I CAN BRING THE FIGHT FOR US.
>> WE NEED A NEW GENERATION OF
LEADERSHIP.
>> THERE ARE NO POLICY
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TOM TIFFANY
AND JASON CHURCH.
TIFFANY HAS ENDORSEMENTS FROM
SCOTT WALKER AND SAWN SEAN DUFFY.
BUT IN AN ERA OF
ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT CANDIDATES,
HE HAS TO MAKE SURE THOSE
ENDORSEMENTS DON'T MAKE HIM THE
ESTABLISHMENT.
>> I'M PROUD OF THE ENDORSEMENTS
I'VE GOTTEN BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN
TRUE REFORMERS.
>> CHURCH'S SUPPORTERS COME FROM
MILITARY BACKGROUND.
>> THE PEOPLE WHO ENDORSED ME,
THEY HE DIDN'T KNOW MIGHT BE
FROM WORKING IN THE LEGISLATURE
IN TEN YEARS OR TRYING TO RUN
FOR OFFICE FOR A DECADE AND A
HALF.
>> I GREW UP IN A STRONG UNION
HOUSEHOLD.
>> ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE,
TRICIA ZUNKER IS ENDORSED BY THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF WISCONSIN.
>> I'M AN ENROLLED MEMBER OF
HO-CHUNK
HO-CHUNK NATION AND I COME FROM
GENERATIONS OF DAIRY FARMERS.
>> SHE'S A JUSTICE ON THE
HO-CHUNK SUPREME COURT AND ON
THE WAUSAU SCHOOL BOARD.
>> WE HAVE OPPORTUNITY TO GET
REPRESENTATION FOR THE PEOPLE OF
WISCONSIN.
>> A DEMOCRAT HAS NOT WON THE
7TH IN MORE THAN A DECADE.
IN A DIFFERENT POLITICAL ERA AND
UNDER DIFFERENT MAPS.
BUT ZUNKER SAYS SHE'S REACHING
OUT TO POPULATIONS THAT HAVE
BEEN OVERLOOKED, LIKE NATIVE
AMERICAN TRIBES.
>> I MET WITH MEMBERS OF THE
SOMALI COMMUNITY, MALE HMONG
COMMUNITY LEADERS.
I DID SOME HISPANIC OUTREACH FOR
THE COMMUNITY IN ABBOTSFORD.
THERE ARE SO MANY COMMUNITIES
THAT HAVE BEEN OVER OVERLOOKED AND
HAVE SAID TO ME THIS IS THE
FIRST TIME A CANDIDATE HAS COME
TO US.
>> LAWRENCE DALE IS ALSO RUNNING
AS A DEMOCRAT AND SAYS HE'S
UNAFRAID TO CRITICIZE HIS OWN
PARTY LEADERS.
>> I'M NOT A ZEALOT FOR ANY
PARTY.
I SUPPORT BERNIE SANDERS.
AND I SUPPORT JUSTICE FOR
WORKING PEOPLE GENERALLY AND
CERTAINLY JUSTICE FOR THE SMALL
FARMERS IN OUR DISTRICT.
>> DALE SAYS HIS BIGGEST
CONCERNS INCLUDE THE THREAT FROM
MINING OPERATIONS AND INDUSTRIAL
FARMS.
>> AS YOUR CONGRESSMAN WHAT I'M
GOING TO DO IS PRESENT
LEGISLATION THAT WILL PUT A
MORATORIUM ON CAFOs.
>> HE SAYS HE'S NOT IMPRESSED
WITH ZUNKER.
>> SHE TALKS A LOT ABOUT
HERSELF.
THAT TURNS ME OFF RIGHT AWAY.
SHE WENT ON AND ON.
IT JUST ABOUT DROVE ME NUTS.
SO I WAITED FOR THE SECOND HALF
OF HER PRESENTATION AND THERE
WAS NOTHING OF SUBSTANCE.
>> FOR HER PART, ZUNKER HAS
NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT LAWRENCE
DALE.
>> I'M NOT REALLY FOCUSED ON ANY
OPPONENT IN THE PRIMARY.
I'M FOCUS ODD FOCUSED ON THIS CAMPAIGN,
LISTENING TO THE VOTERS.
>> TURNOUT IS OFTEN QUITE LOW IN
THE SPRING PRIMARY.
ADD IN ONE OF THE LARGEST
DISTRICTS EAST OF THE MISS
MISSISSIPPI AND CAMPAIGNING IN
WINTER AND YOU HAVE A LOT OF
UNKNOWNS.
>> A WINTER CAMPAIGN IS A WHOLE
DIFFERENT ANIMAL.
IT'S A LOUD OF GROUND TO COVER.
EIGHT HOURS ROUND TRIP FROM
HUDSON TO THE OTHER END AND
BACK.
>> IT'S GOING TO BE DIFFICULT AS
IT ALWAYS IS.
USUALLY THE CANDIDATE THAT
OUTSPENDS THE OTHER BY A
SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT WINS.
>> THIS IS A 26-COUNTY DISTRICT,
ONE-THIRD OF THE STATE OF
WISCONSIN, AND WE HAVE TO TRY
ALL DIFFERENT THINGS THROUGHOUT
THE DISTRICT.
>> REPORTING FROM WAUSAU, I'M
ZAC SCHULTZ.
>> THE SPECIAL PRIMARY ELECTION
IN THE 7TH CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT IS NEXT TUESDAY,
FEBRUARY 18.
AS WE REPORTED LAST WEEK, FOR
ABSENTEE VOTERS IN THAT
DISTRICT, THERE ARE TWO BALLOTS
FOR THAT ELECTION, ONE FOR THE
FEDERAL ELECTION AND ANOTHER FOR
STATE SUPREME COURT AND LOCAL
RACES.
THIS WEEK, HOWEVER, THE
WISCONSIN ELECTIONS COMMISSION
VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO SEND ONLY
ONE BALLOT TO MOST ABSENTEE
VOTERS FOR THE APRIL 7
PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY AND SUPREME
COURT GENERAL.
COMMISSIONERS WORRIED TWO
BALLOTS COULD CAUSE CHAOS.
>> FOR A REGULAR VOTER IN
WISCONSIN THAT'S NOT OVERSEAS,
THAT'S NOT SERVE SERVING IN THE
MILITARY, YOU WILL ONE BALLOT
WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE
ELECTION AND THE STATE