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lection 9 92 the Journal Times, Wednesday, April 8, 1992 Racine, Wis. 7A State results $1 i- (3orquist easily wins 2nd term I--It yi rrf i vVrv, II vi I I i i '''fl Ranee MoogJournal Times morning at Goodland Elementary School. Voters line up Tuesday i Smedegaard loses By Joe Buttweilor Journal Times Racine City Council President Paul Smedegaard was beaten by a nearly 2-to-l margin Tuesday by political newcomer Pamela Zenner. According to unofficial results, she received 1,317 votes, compared to Smedegaard's 724. "I'm delighted.

I'm very grateful for the vote of confidence it indicates, and I'm ready to get down to business and do a good job," Zenner said. She said she was "sort of overwhelmed" by the margin of victory and hopes that she can live up to the level of support. Zenner, 50, of 810 Kentucky said she thought 12th District residents were ready for a change. Voters oust McGcc MILWAUKEE (AP) Alderman Michael McGee, who threatened violence in Milwaukee if he lost his re-election bid, was defeated Tuesday by a 50-year-old Milwaukee police sergeant. Even though both he and his opponent were black, McGee said he was hurt by redistricting presided over by white politicians that changed the makeup of his district.

He said he would announce his future plans at a news conference at noon on Good Friday, April 17. "I know they spent a lot of money to get me," he said. George Butler credited his showing to a heavy voter turnout and said he was not intimidated by McGee's past threats. "If Michael McGee or anyone else carries out any threats of violence, we have the proper authorities to deal with them and we will deal with them," Butler said. With 100 percent of the vote counted, Butler had 4,105 votes, or 53 percent, to 3,539, or 46 percent, for McGee.

McGee, 41, who first won election in 1984 and was re-elected in 1988, formed a Black Panther Militia two years ago, saying he would have to resort to violence if conditions for Milwaukee's black population did not improve by 1995. Butler had hammered away at the job performance of McGee, who once wore a bag over his head for the official portrait of the Common Council and has disdained attendance at council meetings. Amendments win approval MILWAUKEE (AP) Voters were turning thumbs up on two changes in the Wisconsin Constitution on Tuesday that would allow state senators a pay raise every two years and permit state spending on railroad projects. With 1,672 of the state's 4,391 precincts reporting, the pay referendum was winning the endorsement of 68 percent of voters, with 32 percent voting no. The railway referendum was winning approval 59 percent to 41 percent.

In Racine County, the votes were: On the rail referendum, Yes, On the pay referendum, Yes, No, 15,475 "People recognize there is a need to have a balanced transportation system," said Joseph Strohl, a former Racine state senator who was a spokesman for the pro-amendment Wisconsin Rail Coalition. "Rural areas recognize the importance of freight rail, and urban areas are interest in passenger rail," Strohl said. "People recognize that rail is likely to play an important part in the state's future." Since statehood, the constitution has prevented state government from using public works funds directly for railroad projects. Tourist village stays dry EPHRAIM (AP) Voters in this tiny tourist village decided overwhelmingly Tuesday to retain a ban on liquor sales that dates back to the 1850s just as residents did nearly 60 years ago. Unofficial returns showed voters defeated a proposal to allow nine restaurants to sell wine with meals by a 141-50 vote in a referendum, the Door County Clerk's Office said.

The village of 263 residents is in the heart of Door County, on a peninsula on the Lake Michigan shore that is one of Wisconsin's most popular tourist areas. Village Administrator Diane Kirkland said Ephraim is believed to be the last "dry" town in Wisconsin. Busing backers defeated LA CROSSE (AP) Two members of the La Crosse School Board, which approved a controversial busing plan earlier this year, were ousted by voters Tuesday. The defeat of incumbents Charles Miller and Ellen Rosborough came amid a citizen group's drive to recall the remaining six members of the nine-member board who weren't up for re-election. The third incumbent up for re-election, Maryanne Leffler, did not seek another three-year term.

In January, the board approved a plan to begin busing many of the 3,800 La Crosse elementary school pupils this fall to achieve economic balance in the school district. Loan for ship rejected SUPERIOR (AP) Voters soundly defeated a proposal Tuesday night to allow the city to loan $1.25 million to bring a mothballed Navy cruiser to Superior as a tourist attraction. With seven of 10 precincts reporting, unofficial returns showed there were 3,920 votes against the proposal, compared to 1,998 votes in favor of it. The city council voted 6-4 on Dec. 17 to loan $1.25 million to Des Moines Project Inc.

to bring the USS Des Moines to Superior. Visitors would be charged $5 to tour it. But critics charged the projected number of annual admissions to the warship were too high and taxpayers would end up paying back some of the 15-year loan at a time when tax money is needed for road and sewer repairs. to Zenner by almost 2-1 Associated Press Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist easily won re-election to a second term Tuesday as voters in numerous Wisconsin cities elected mayors. With 251 of 325 precincts reporting in the state's largest city, Norquist had 77,714 votes, or 63 percent, to 45,563, or 37 percent, for challenger Gregory Gracz, who was accused during the campaign of sexually harassing a Racine woman two years ago.

Norquist told supporters the outcome was "a vote of confidence in Milwaukee and in its future." The race for the job included allegations from a Racine firefighter that Gracz, president of the Milwaukee firefighters union, dropped his pants and exposed himself to her and sexually harassed her at a firefighters convention in June 1990. In other mayoral races: In Appleton, Richard De Broux, a school teacher and member of the city council, maintained' a narrow lead over insurance executive Dennis Hendrickson. Mayor Dorothy Johnson decided she would not seek re-election after 12 years in office. In Ashland, Alderman Russell Korpela, an accountant, ousted Mayor James Monroe. Monroe sought a second two-year term in a job that becomes full time.

The mayor pleaded no contest Feb. 24 to drunken driving. In Wausau, City Engineer John Hess had a narrow lead against David Torkko, who owns a caramel corn company. Mayor John Robinson, 36, announced his retirement within weeks after he was cited for failing to report an Aug. 3 accident in which his car plunged down a steep embankment at 4 a.m.

Robinson admitted he had been drinking but said he wasn't drunk. In Rhinelander, Mayor Joseph Bloom, a retired school teacher, won re-election to sixth two-year term, defeating Karen Minassi, who owns a bed and breakfast business! In Marshfield, Mayor David Koepke, a retired variety store owner, failed in his bid for a fourth two-year term, losing to Marvin Duerr, who sells automobile accessories. In Edgerton, former alderman Timothy Roenneburg, a truck driver who hauls fuel oil, defeated Alderman Steve French for the part-time mayor's job. In Wauwatosa, Mayor James Brundahl sought a third, four-year term against Alderwoman Marico-lette Walsh, who finished first in February's five-candidate primary. No results were being released until all 24 precincts had reported.

In Kaukauna, Mayor Neal Steinberg won re-election, defeating Daniel Glasheen, a former member of the city council. In Evansville, Harlin Miller, a retired General Motors factory worker who owns a small business, took on Richard Modaff, a 35-year-old one-time dairy farmer who is attending the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and graduates this spring. Both are former members of the City Council. Mayor Christopher Eager was defeated in the February primary. Fitchburg police arrested him Nov.

10 and charged him with having an open intoxicant in his car. Antaramian new, mayor of Kenosha KENOSHA State Rep. John Antaramian handily won a four-year term as Kenosha mayor in Tuesday's balloting, defeating city alderman Keith Bosman. The complete, unofficial vote was Antaramian: 14,632 Itosman: 7,143 Antaramian, D-Kenosha, has been a state lawmaker since 1982. He is currently a member of the powerful Joint Finance Committee.

Bosman, a council member since 1988, sells foodstuffs for a wholesale company. He is currently chairman of the Kenosha City Council's finance committee. The men were bidding to replace Kenosha Mayor Patrick Moran, who did not seek re-election after serving one term. The job pays about $50,000 a year. Five from Andi'B-EIiartindilS to replace Constantine ore city By Joe Buttweiler Journal Times In a fiercely fought 2nd District race, Jane Andre-Martindill beat Dwight Mosby by a complete, unofficial vote of 808 to 637 Tuesday to replace retiring Dorothy Constantine on the Racine City Council.

Andre-Martindill, 32, of 1710 Park overcame an orchestrated drive by Mosby to obtain absentee votes. Despite the victory, Andre-Martindill campaign organizers said she will probably contest some of the absentee votes. "That's only because we feel it's important absentee ballots are used properly and people are informed of their correct use," Andre-Martindill said. rities should be fighting crime, but would not say in a recent interview if he would support hiring more police. Smedegaard said Zenner's campaign had little substance, and Zenner said she did not have specific proposals because she did not have the information she would have if on the council.

Zenner, reached at Dr. Livingstone's, 230 Main where she and her supporters gathered Tuesday night, said she worked very hard on her campaign and had an "outpouring of support." She said she probably fared so well because she is positive and progressive. "I really believe in this city," Zenner said. "I have very strong feelings about it and really would like to improve its quality of life." counci real estate broker had previously said his absentee ballot drive was intended to get more people involved in the voting process. Andre-Martindill said: "I already have somewhat of an agenda put together from talking to people during campaigning," she said.

She said those items include providing easy access to polling places, improving city recycling programs, handling citizens' concerns about signs in front of their houses, and addressing issues of crime, housing and taxes. She said she hopes to represent everyone in the district and to be as easily accessible as possible, and said her door-to-door campaigning helped her win the election because she was able to tell people what she wants to do for them. Racine County, who showed up at the polls. Racine County Clerk Joan Ren-nert said she expected a good turnout, partly because of the nice weather. "When it's nice out, people don't mind going out to their polling places," she said.

"If there was a Blizzard, I think they might be less likely to vote." The highest turnout was in North Bay, where 77.5 percent, or 124 of the 160 registered voters, hit the polls. Poll workers said they noticed many voters were choosing candidates that were not on the ballot. "This year we've had a lot of write-ins, but it doesn't do any good and it just makes more work for us," said Vena Andersen, who has been working at the polls for about 20 years. "Usually people write in Donald Duck or something, but this year I don't think that's who they're talking about," Andersen said. Smedegaard, 50, of 929 Lathrop had served three consecutive two-year terms.

Smedegaard, a tractor assembler at J.I. Case did not return calls to his house Tuesday night. Both candidates campaigned saying they wanted to keep taxes down, step up efforts to attract new industry, and pump up the fight against crime. Zenner, assistant director of Downtown Racine said she would get better results because of her business contacts. Smedegaard, who was tabbed by Mayor N.

Owen Davies to serve as honorary mayor of the city on Friday, said he had a proven track record of getting things done and responding to constituents. He said one of the city's top prio More than 90 requests for absentee ballots came from 2nd District residents, and a man associated with Mosby dropped off 84 completed absentee ballots shortly before the 5 p.m. deadline, according to the city clerk's office. It was not immediately known Tuesday night how many absentee ballots were cast for each candidate. Andre-Martindill, a homemaker, said she felt very good about the victory and is ready to get started.

Mosby, of 2004 Franklin had no comment about the race when contacted by telephone Tuesday night. The 43-year-old self-employed to study why voters voted they way they did, said Shelley Guestafson, an exit poller. Exit pollers at several polling places in Racine County asked voters to complete the survey, which takes about five minutes. "We've had a lot of refusals," Guestafson said, adding that about one-third of the voters at Goodland School filled out the questionnaires. "People are in a hurry, or they don't like the news coverage of elections, so they don't want to participate," Guestafson said.

"Other people said they thought it was a good idea." Robert Akulian, 50, of Racine, said he thought the survey would help give government officials a better idea about the people who vote. "Maybe it will wake up some of the people out there, if they look at this," he said. "At least it gives them something to think about." Akulian was among an estimated 27 percent of registered voters in Burlington city will still elect its clerk-treasurer BURLINGTON City residents hang tough when it comes to giving up their right to elect a clerk-treasurer. Once again, they voted to rejected the idea of changing the post from an elected to an appointed job in a referendum Tuesday. Residents turned it down The margin was slimmer than in 1966 and 1987, when referendums were defeated by 3-to-l and 5-to-l margins, but the message was still the same: "No." twiforas poll Iocs! 'votQirs Fell regains his seat on Burlington School Board By Jennifer Kott Journal Times In the corner of the Goodland School gymnasium, two voters sat at a small table filling out -questionnaires on issues that affected their votes.

Others walked past the table, either refusing to complete a survey or not noticing that one was taking place. The two questionnaires, one for Democrats and one for Republicans, were distributed by Voter Research and Surveys, a coalition of four television networks: ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN. Both included questions about the candidate the voter chose, which political issues and candidate qualities influenced voting, whether gambling should be legalized, and how the respondent's family situation has changed in the past four years. The networks will use the results to report on voter preferences and Milwaukee The council voted 6-1 last fall to change the job from elected to appointed, citing increasing complexities of the job. City leaders wanted to have the authority to appoint a post and tack minimum job qualifications to it.

Burlington is one of the few Wisconsin cities that stilly elect clerk-treasurers. Of all city clerk-treasurers in the state, 14.6 percent are elected while 85.4 percent are appointed, according to the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance. available. Grandi withdrew from the race earlier this year because his job would conflict with school board business. His name could not be removed from the ballot, however.

If he wins the seat, he would have to resign to relinquish the victory, and the board would appoint a successor. Thorngate entered the race as a write-in candidate days before the election, because he didn't want a board member appointed to a term. Frankie Brezinski said she would not know how the tie would be resolved until Wednesday morning when she talked to Rennert, but in the past ties have been broken by drawing straws or cutting cards. "If anyone asks for a recount, we'll do a recount, but that's not my jurisdiction," Rennert said. "First, it will go through BURLINGTON After a year's absence, William Fell regained a seat on the Burlington Area School Board Tuesday.

Fell garnered 2,196 votes to gain one of the two seats on the ballot Tuesday. Fell lost election to the board in April 1991, after serving nine years in the post. Newcomer Robert Grandi, who withdrew from the race earlier this year but whose name remained on the ballot, got 1,377 votes. It was unclear if he still won the seat, because write-in candidate Steve Thorngate's vote totals were not face robbery charges Coin flip may decide Waterford village race A short time later, a patrol officer stopped a car that she thought looked suspicious. Two of the five males iaside the car were later identified by a witness and police arrested the suspects on armed robbery charges.

Arrested on two counts each of armed robbery were Muhbash-Shir Muhammad II, 24; Jajuan C. Muhammad, 18. Arrested on two counts each of party to armed robbery were Dana J. Souter, 18; Damon D. Muhammad, 20; and a 17-year-old boy.

One of the gunmen pointed a semiautomatic gun at the clerk and threatened to shoot him, police said. The gunmen fled with an undetermined amount of cash. About 12:50 a.m. Tuesday, the suspects reportedly struck again when they held up the Citgo Quik Mart, 2500 Lathrop Ave. Again, one of the gunmen threatened to shoot the clerk unless he surrendered cash, police said.

The suspects then escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash. Four men and a boy from Milwaukee allegedly were involved in two Racine service stations stick-ups within 24 hours, from early Monday to early Tuesday. But it didn't take Racine police long to catch the suspects. Wearing black stocking masks, two of the five suspects reportedly held up the Super America service station, 2110 S. Green Bay Road, about 12:40 a.m.

Monday. A tie for a third opening on the Waterford Village Board may be resolved by the flip of a coin. County Clerk Joan Rennert said Tuesday night as election results were tallied. Leroy Nelson and Glenn Collins each received 324 votes for trustee, coming in third behind Robert Tin-dall with 400 votes and Arthur Hen-ning with 380. Waterford ClerlJ.