Dane County to see 5 primary elections Tuesday

MADISON, Wis. (WMDX) – There will be five primary elections across Dane County on Tuesday, as voters decide who will decide who will move onto the local general election on April 2. 

Two County Board seats will have primary elections tomorrow – District 13 in downtown Madison around Camp Randall, and District 36 in eastern Dane County around the village of Cottage Grove. 

District 13 is currently represented by Supervisor Jay Brower, who will be going up against two other candidates, Travis Austin and Ronan Rataj.

Brower was first appointed to the Board of Supervisors last year to fill the seat vacated by former-supervisor Olivia Xistris-Songpanya. Brower also works as a labor union organizer. Rataj is a student at the University of Wisconsin Madison, and served for two years on the county’s Public Protection and Judiciary Committee as a youth representative. Austin is a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin Madison, and served on the town board in the town of Berry in western Dane County.

District 36 is currently represented by Melissa Ratcliff, who also serves in the state legislature. Ratcliff is not seeking reelection, and is instead running for state Senate to replace the outgoing Senator Melissa Agard. 

Three people will be running for the District 36 County Supervisor seat – David Peterson, Andrew McKinney, and Loreen Y. Gage. Peterson works in IT for Microsoft, and is also serving his second term on the Cottage Grove Village Board. Gage is an educator at One City Schools in Madison, and currently serves as the school board president of Monona Grove Schools. McKinney is an independent consultant, and has previously ran for a seat in the state Legislature as a Republican. 

The top two candidates in each race will continue on to the general election ballot on April 2. 

There will also be a primary election for Monona Alderperson on Tuesday. Seven candidates will appear on the ballot for three seats on the City Council. The top six candidates will make their way to the general election. Those candidates are Brian Holmquist, Jerry Thompson, Candyce VerBurg, Jeff VerBurg, Patrick DePula, Teresa Radermacher, and Rachel Kugle. 

Holmquist currently sits on the Monona City Council, and serves as a civil rights and Title IX investigator for the Madison School District. Thompson is a retired letter carrier for the Madison Post Office. Candyce VerBurg is a retired administrator for area hospitals. Jeff VerBurg is a technical services engineer at Epic. DePula currently sits on the Monona City Council, and is the CEO and chef at Salvatore’s Tomato Pies. Radermacher currently sits on the Monona City Council, and is an IT analyst with the state Department of Administration. Kugle is the Director of Operations at Therma-Stor.

Three people are running for Sun Prairie District 2 Alderperson. They are Santiago Rosas, Bill Baker, and Matthew Hill. Rosas served on the Madison Common Council for 14 years, and helped co-found the Wisconsin Latino Chamber of Commerce. Baker is the owner of the Baker Realty Group, and has served on the Sun Prairie City Housing Committee. Hill works for American Family Insurance, and served in the Wisconsin National Guard for 14 years. 

There are four people running for a seat on the Middleton-Cross Plains School Board in District 4. They are Lauren Rogers, Nate Day, Katie Frank, and David Bell. Bell is a substitute paraeducator. Day is a senior urban planner with SEH. Frank is the owner and operator of REFORMadison. Rogers is a hospice nurse. 

The top two candidates will go onto the general election on Tuesday, April 2.