Democrat's write-in Assembly bid puts Vos in three-way match after narrow primary win
I was wondering if they were going to to this... yay.
With a write-in Republican challenger already running against Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) in November, a two-time Democratic rival is joining the race as well.
Joel Jacobsen announced Tuesday he would run as a write-in candidate for the 63rd district state Assembly seat Vos holds. In a statement and in an interview, Jacobsen identified his top issues as reproductive rights and threats to democracy.
No Democrats submitted nomination papers for the seat this year, so no Democrat will be listed on the November ballot. Jacobsen said he had considered doing so this past spring but held back hoping that other candidates would step forward for the Democrats.
“I’ve run several campaigns,” said Jacobsen, who ran against Vos and lost in 2018 and 2020. “They are not easy and they can be very stressful on families.”
But in the last few weeks he decided to pursue the seat a third time amid signs of a much more “volatile” election. Between the loss of abortion rights in Wisconsin following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and concerns about changes to election administration driven by false claims of voter fraud, “people are really searching for choices,” Jacobsen said. “I don’t think they had them in the 63rd district.”
That's the whole atricle.
https://journaltimes.com/news/state-and-regional/democrat-s-write-in-assembly-bid-puts-vos-in-three-way-match-after-narrow-primary/article_fac797fa-62b4-5aae-9158-6349aae353af.html
2020 results
Robin Vos - Republican 19,919 58.44% - - -Joel Jacobsen - Dem.14,132 41.46%
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