Nov. 02?Paul Ryan isn?t the only Wisconsin politician running for two offices at the same time in Tuesday?s election ? two state GOP lawmakers are competing in separate elections for their respective Assembly seats and in a winner-take-all primary to fill a Senate seat.
In the 33rd Senate District in Waukesha County, Rep. Chris Kapenga (R-Delafield), a certified public accountant, is running against Rep. Paul Farrow (R-village of Pewaukee), the son of former Lt. Gov. Margaret Farrow, in the GOP primary.
The seat was vacated in August when former Sen. Rich Zipperer stepped down to take a job as Gov. Scott Walker?s deputy chief of staff and a special election was called, with the primary set for Tuesday and the general set for Dec. 4.
No Democrat is on the ballot for the Senate race in this strongly Republican county, giving the GOP primary winner a lock on the seat. But both GOP candidates also have Democratic opponents for their Assembly seats, with Eric Prudent of Waukesha running against Farrow and Thomas Hibbard of Hartland running against Kapenga.
The Assembly races will appear on the regular side of the ballot, and the Senate race will appear on the back. Because the Senate race is technically a separate election, voters will be able to vote for Republican or Democratic candidates in the general election and then vote in the Republican Senate primary.
?Can you vote for the same person in both (Assembly and Senate) races? Absolutely,? Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus said.
The races are similar to the situation of U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who is running for re-election for his congressional seat as well as vice president alongside Mitt Romney. In the case of the Senate race with Farrow and Kapenga, another special election also likely will have to be called next year to fill the winner?s Assembly seat, assuming they are re-elected.
Kapenga, 40, has for a little more than a decade bought and then worked to boost local businesses in financial difficulties, including a company selling time-management software to employers and a minority stake in a series of optometrist locations. Kapenga said he wants to put his skills as a businessman to work on state government as a senator and keep pushing for holding down state spending and making the state more friendly to businesses.
?I love getting in and fixing things. That?s what I enjoy,? Kapenga said.
Since being elected in 2010, Kapenga served as a lead co-sponsor of legislation repealing Milwaukee?s ordinance requiring businesses to provide paid sick leave. He has also said he supports right-to-work legislation and will continue to seek to pass it in the Legislature, though he doubts that will happen in the upcoming 2013-?14 session.
Farrow, a colleague to Kapenga in the Assembly, has a one-man home inspection business and a separate radon mitigation business with two partners and has previously worked as a facilitator and trainer working in areas such as team building and conflict resolution with businesses and other organizations.
Farrow was a lead co-sponsor on legislation creating a tax incremental financing district in the Town of Brookfield and legislation lowering the interest rates earned on court judgments to people who successfully sue for injuries, but not lowering the rates on judgments to banks and credit card companies that succeed in taking their customers to court.
Farrow, 48, said he also is working on reform measures that will boost Wisconsin?s economy by better educating its workforce, such as making credits for certain core courses easily transferrable between any public university or technical college in the state. Like Kapenga, he also wants to hold down spending and cut government regulations.
?I want to be the spokesman for Waukesha County and say we have so many things that are working here that we can take and (spread to) the rest of the state,? Farrow said.
Source: http://election2010.illumen.org/latest-news/kapenga-farrow-battling-for-state-senate-seat
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