Wisconsin Democracy Campaign  

Senator Robert Wirch (D) Pleasant PrairieSenator Robert WirchSenate 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?

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