{"id":6820,"date":"2014-11-05T16:49:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6820"},"modified":"2014-11-05T16:49:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:49:08","slug":"election-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6820","title":{"rendered":"Election Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Scott Walker handily defeated challenger Mary Burke last night, and legislative Republicans widened their margin in the Legislature with a 19-14 majority in the Senate and a 63-36 majority in the Assembly. Full election results from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewheelerreport.com\/\">The Wheeler Report<\/a> are below.<\/p>\n<p>A special election will be scheduled in the 20th Senate District after State Senator Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) resigns to represent Wisconsin&#8217;s 6th Congressional District, a seat he won yesterday after defeating Democrat Mark Harris. Two Assembly races are very close &#8212; the 51st and 85th Assembly Districts &#8212; and recounts are possible.<\/p>\n<p>Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Burlington) and Joint Finance Committee Co-chair John Nygren (R-Marinette) spoke to the media earlier today and outlined their <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.wisconsin.gov\/eupdates\/asm63\/Vos_ForwardAgenda2014_Final.pdf\">legislative agenda<\/a>. Vos told reporters that while he supports UW System, changes in teaching and research will be considered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Assembly-results-2014-page-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6824\" src=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Assembly-results-2014-page-1.jpg\" alt=\"Assembly results 2014 page 1\" width=\"1275\" height=\"1650\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Assembly-results-2014-page-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6826\" src=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Assembly-results-2014-page-2.jpg\" alt=\"Assembly results 2014 page 2\" width=\"1275\" height=\"1650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Assembly-results-2014-page-2.jpg 1275w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Assembly-results-2014-page-2-115x150.jpg 115w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Assembly-results-2014-page-2-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Assembly-results-2014-page-2-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Assembly-results-2014-page-2-560x724.jpg 560w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Assembly-results-2014-page-2-260x336.jpg 260w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Assembly-results-2014-page-2-160x207.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Senate-results-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6827\" src=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Senate-results-2014.jpg\" alt=\"Senate results 2014\" width=\"1275\" height=\"1650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Senate-results-2014.jpg 1275w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Senate-results-2014-115x150.jpg 115w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Senate-results-2014-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Senate-results-2014-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Senate-results-2014-560x724.jpg 560w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Senate-results-2014-260x336.jpg 260w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Senate-results-2014-160x207.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Scott Walker handily defeated challenger Mary Burke last night, and legislative Republicans widened their margin in the Legislature with a 19-14 majority in the Senate and a 63-36 majority in the Assembly. Full election results from The Wheeler Report&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6820\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[20,31],"class_list":["post-6820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-the-state","tag-elections","tag-scott-walker","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820","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=6820"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6832,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820\/revisions\/6832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}