Updated: June 1, 2001 Senator Robert Wirch (D) Pleasant Prairie /profile2000/wirch.JPG) Senate District 22 2000 Election Notes and Background: | 2000 Campaign Finance Summary | | *Senator Wirch was first elected to the Assembly in 1992 and to the Senate in 1996. *He was unopposed in the primary and faced a Republican challenger in the general election. * Planned Parenthood Advocates ($775) and WI Nurses Assn ($75) made independent expenditures benefiting Wirch. WI Right to Life ($1,282) made independent expenditures favoring his opponent. | Wirch | Duecker | Raised $158,472 | Spent $167,895 | Raised $89,441 | Spent $88,659 | | Vote: 56% | $4.27/vote | Vote: 44% | $2.87/vote | Independent backing: $850 | Independent backing: $1,282 | Wirch’s Committee Assignments | | 2001-2002: Environmental Resources; Finance; Joint Finance; Human Services and Aging; Judiciary, Consumer Affairs and Campaign Finance Reform; Retirement Research; Joint Survey Retirement Systems (Co-chair). 1999-2000: Agriculture, Environmental Resources & Campaign Finance Reform; Economic Development, Housing and Government Operations; Human Services and Aging; Joint Survey Retirement Systems. | Where Did the Money Come From? /profile2000/pro2000wirchchart11.gif) | | Cash on hand 1/1/97 | $2,757 | | From Self | $7,500 | | Less than $100 | $40,173 | | $100 or more | $81,892 | | PAC & Party | $15,693 | | Other Income | $3,539 | | WECF* | $9,675 | | *voluntary spending limit system. | | *From individual contributors giving $100 or more per year and all PAC, party and candidate committee contributions. Who are the top contributors to Senator Wirch? 1/1/93 - 12/31/00 | Contributor | City | Business | Amount | | Wirch, Robert W | Pleasant Prairie, WI | Legislator | $7,500 | | Burgess, Calvin R & Susan | Edmond, OK | Dominion Venture Group | $2,000 | | Tirabassi, Domenick & Gina | Kenosha, WI | Dairyland Greyhound Park/ Precision Erecting Co | $1,990 | | Meisler, Herbert & Allen | Mobile, AL | Dairyland Greyhound Park | $1,855 | | Hanson, Thomas | Madison, WI | Hanson Service Corp | $1,700 | | Broydrick Family | Delafield, WI | Broydrick & Associates | $1,500 | | Madrigrano, Joseph F & Kathy | Kenosha, WI | Madrigrano, Zievers et al | $1,300 | | Edenhofer, Carl L & Karen R | Salem, WI | Joling, Edenhofer & Assoc | $1,100 | | Cicchini, Attilio | Kenosha, WI | Dairyland Greyhound Park/ Cicchini Asphalt Paving Inc | $1,040 |
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