{"id":4690,"date":"2013-02-18T08:17:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T14:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=4690"},"modified":"2013-02-18T08:17:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T14:17:34","slug":"spring-primary-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=4690","title":{"rendered":"Spring Primary Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/election-day.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-898\" title=\"election day\" src=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/election-day-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"election day\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/election-day-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/election-day-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/election-day.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Wisconsin <a href=\"http:\/\/gab.wi.gov\/elections-voting\/2013\/spring\">spring primary election<\/a> will be held tomorrow,  Tuesday, February 19. A primary election for the Wisconsin Supreme Court is the only statewide race on the ballot. Incumbent Justice <a href=\"http:\/\/wisconsinvote.org\/candidates\/ed-fallone\">Pat Roggensack <\/a>faces challengers <a href=\"http:\/\/wisconsinvote.org\/candidates\/ed-fallone\">Ed Fallone<\/a> of Whitefish Bay and <a href=\"http:\/\/wisconsinvote.org\/candidates\/vince-megna\">Vince Megna<\/a> of Menomonee Falls. <a href=\"http:\/\/wisconsinvote.org\/candidates\/ed-fallone\">Fallone<\/a> is a law professor at Marquette University and Megna is an attorney in private practice specializing in automobile lemon law cases. The top two vote-getters will face off on Tuesday, April 2.<\/p>\n<p>There is one state legislative race on the ballot &#8212; five Republicans are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/statepolitics\/98th-assembly-district-primary-field-crowded-gh8q04h-191499741.html\">facing off<\/a> in a special election in the 98th Assembly District (Waukesha County). The seat became open last December when State Representative Paul Farrow was elected to the 33rd Senate District in a special election. There are no Democrats running the race, meaning the top finisher will almost certainly win the April 2 general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wisconsin spring primary election will be held tomorrow, Tuesday, February 19. A primary election for the Wisconsin Supreme Court is the only statewide race on the ballot. Incumbent Justice Pat Roggensack faces challengers Ed Fallone of Whitefish Bay and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=4690\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[20,18,25],"class_list":["post-4690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-state","tag-elections","tag-legislature","tag-state-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4690"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4699,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690\/revisions\/4699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}