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SATURDAY 12 noon - DJ from 7:00 PM Orfordville Downtown Patio Dedication Live Music Peggy & Joe –11am-1pm 323452 2 2 • Wednesday, August 8, 2018 - The Independent-Register Primary next week will likely decide Walker’s opponent in fall Green and Rock county voters will Some of these choices include strong voice in shaping public policy Assembly District from her election He was first elected Mayor of go to the polls next Tuesday, Aug. 14, making all technical colleges and in Wisconsin. in 2008 until 2013, and during Madison in 1973. Elected twice in Wisconsin’s 2018 partisan primary. 2-year UW campuses free for Kelda Roys the 2011-2013 session, served as more in the 1970’s, Soglin served Their vote will decide whose Wisconsin residents, expanding Kelda Roys, Minority Caucus Chair. In September as Madison’s mayor until 1979. names appear on the general election Badgercare to cover 79,000 more 38, is a small 2011, Roys ran for Congress in From 1979 to 1980, Soglin was a ballot Nov. 6. people, restoring funds to the business owner, Wisconsin’s 2nd congressional fellow at the Kennedy School of Next week’s vote will decide final university system, and adding $100 former state district, a race she lost in August Governmentat Harvard University. candidates for governor, U.S. Senate, million to fund broadband across the representative, 2012. She left the Assembly when her After working for nearly a decade as US. Representative, odd-numbered state. attorney, and second term ended in 2013. a lawyer in Madison, Soglin returned Wisconsin State Senate Districts, all Before entering politics, Kathleen advocate for Paul Soglin to elected office in 1989, serving three Wisconsin Assembly Districts and taught in and directed the Health women. A mom Paul Soglin additional terms as Madison mayor county contests. Service Administration program at the and stepmom of is the longest until 1997. Polls open at 7 a.m. and close at University of Illinois at Springfield. 4 girls, Kelda Kelda Roys serving mayor He resigned as Mayor in 1996 8 p.m. My Vote Wisconsin website Before that, she directed the education is relentlessly focused on building a in Madison’s when taking on the challenge has a search engine for polling place department at the Visiting Nurses Wisconsin where everyone has the history. He has of running against Republican addresses. All voters must show Association in St. Louis. She has chance to succeed. been Madison’s congressman Scott Klug. For the next a photo ID when they go to those graduate degrees in Health Services Born in Marshfield and raised in Mayor for more 15 years, Paul worked in the private polling places. Research and Public Health and an Medford and Madison, Kelda loves than 20 years, sector as a financial advisor at Lincoln For Democrats in Wisconsin, the associate’s in agriculture. Wisconsin. spanning four Financial; as the administrator at Epic primary race to select a candidate to Today, Kathleen still lives on her Her mother was a social worker decades. Systems, leading the phased move win back the governor’s post still has farm with her husband, Doug, and son and inspired her passion for public Mayor Soglin of Epic’s 2,600 employees to its new a crowded field. Nathan. In her spare time, she enjoys service. Her stepdad was an has always been Paul Soglin corporate campus, overseeing its Here are profiles of seven her two horses: Vana and Rosie and environmental lawyer from Portage, that rare elected leader unafraid to $23 million investment program and candidates who debated each other her cat, Rustle. and her father, a retired prosecutor do what’s right -- breaking ground helping develop Epic’s charitable- recently in Monroe and who are still Matt Flynn and law enforcement officer who by hiring more women and people giving program; and serving as a seeking their party’s primary backing Matt Flynn is lives in Wauwatosa. of color; raising the minimum wage; consultant. He also taught at the to face Gov. Walker Nov. 6. a Navy veteran, Kelda is the CEO and Founder of creating record numbers of senior, LaFollette School of Public Affairs, Kathleen Vinehout attorney, and OpenHomes, a real estate brokerage affordable and low-income housing; leading graduate seminars in public State Sen. former Chair of that uses technology to help people standing with Sen. Gaylord Nelson finance, public management, and Kathleen the Democratic sell and buy homes more easily on the first Earth Day; getting large public personnel practices. Vinehout, 59, Party of and affordably. Frustrated with the public projects built. Mahlon Mitchell followed her Wisconsin. high fees and inconsistent service of Paul Soglin enrolled at UW- Mahlon dream 25 years Flynn is the traditional brokerages, Kelda created Madison in 1962 as a pre-med Mitchell is ago when she oldest in a large an innovative, low-cost real estate student. He graduated in 1966 with President of the started her own family and went brokerage while pregnant with her honors in history and then spent 3 Professional dairy farm in to school on first child. Kelda’s growing company years in the UW History graduate Fire Fighters of rural Buffalo scholarships. Matt Flynn has created good paying jobs for program, before obtaining his Wisconsin, being County, milking He worked in Wisconsinites and serves customers law degree from the University of the youngest 50 cows in an Kathleen Vinehout the kitchen of the dining hall to help in 41 counties across Wisconsin. As Wisconsin Law School in 1972. and first African old red barn with pay his way. Flynn’s father Gerard an employer and entrepreneur, Kelda His lifelong dedication to social American to tie stalls. The farm is now certified taught at UW-Milwaukee for many understands how to create jobs, and justice, equal rights, and making serve in the post. organic and produces hay and grain. years. After the children were grown, she knows the importance of small government responsive to the people Hen was born She came into politics late. In Flynn’s mother Geraldine worked in businesses to a vibrant, growing it serves, began early. While in high in Milwaukee 2006, she ran for State Senate and the Post Office. economy. school, in the spring of 1959, he and grew up beat a popular Republican incumbent Matt and Mary Flynn have been She has also served on many joined in “sympathetic boycotts” at in Delavan, Mahlon Mitchell in a mostly rural district. She has been married 41 years. Mary is originally boards including the ACLU of the Woolworth store in downtown Wisconsin. He re-elected twice. from Monroe and worked for many Wisconsin, TEMPO Madison, Chicago. now lives with his wife, April and In the Senate, she has worked to years as a speech pathologist in the Common Cause, Wisconsin Women’s He was elected to Madison’s two children, Sie’anna and make health care affordable, bring Germantown Public Schools. Council, Citizen Action of Wisconsin. Common Council in 1968. He was See PRIMARY, Page 3 more equity to school funding, and After college, Flynn joined the Roys represented the 81st re-elected in 1970 and 1972. find alternatives to incarceration. As Navy. He attended law school at UW- a member of the audit committee, she Madison and began his legal career in has overseen the evaluation of state Milwaukee. programs and has sought to make the Under his leadership, the party Wisconsin Small Community state run more efficiently. In each of retired its debt, elected a Democratic the last four budget cycles, she has Governor, and took majorities in both written alternative budgets that reflect houses of the State Legislature. different choices she would have Matt has helped many Democratic Forum set Aug. 22 in New Glarus made with the money available. candidates get elected. He has been a Small communities have unique gion is invited. Who should attend? issues and needs often very different An optional, free Community Con- Especially invited are community from those of larger communities. versation on Inclusivity will be held leaders, elected officials, volunteers, To address these needs, regional fo- 11 a.m. to noon, led by the Wisconsin business leaders, educators, and both rums have been designed to bring to- Institute for Public Policy and Ser- local and regional economic develop- gether people involved and interested vice in partnership with the League ment, civic, and planning. in promoting, enhancing and preserv- of Wisconsin Municipalities and the In Green County, the Small Com- ing Wisconsin’s small communities. Wisconsin Counties Association. munity Forum is scheduled for If you live in, work in, or help The purpose of this public dialogue Wednesday, Aug. 22, at the New shape communities with populations series is to engage business, non-prof- Glarus Hotel Restaurant, 100 6th Ave.