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'IT 1 1T 1' mmmmm mm "W-1" I I I Wisconsin State Journal, Wednesday, April 5, 2000. ELECT 1011 20 00 3A SOU OtLQErS Conservative Supreme Court justice wins a 10-year term court and that the winner would make the difference in close cases on a court with three conservatives, three liberals and one moderate. They said Sykes would continue to vote with the conservatives, while Butler would have joined the liberals. Sykes said she has enjoyed her stint on the bench and prefers the cloistered court to the rough-and-tumble world of private practice. "I like being the independent arbiter being the person in the system who listens to the countervailing arguments and interprets the law," she said.

"I'm not much of a trench warrior. That's not my personality. Sykes commutes to Madison when the court hears arguments or holds conferences. She said she plans to continue working mainly in her Milwaukee County Courthouse office and at home, where she cares for her sons Jay, 11 and Alex, 8. The boys live primarily with Sykes, who was divorced last June from Milwaukee talk show host Charlie Sykes.

"We're disappointed, but I think we ran a great fight and a dignified campaign," Butler said. "It's too early to make decisions about future races, but I don't think you've heard the last of Louis Butler." Sykes has joined conservatives on the court and has been the deciding vote in five 4-3 decisions, including opinions that expanded police power and cut the protection from unreasonable or warrantless police searches guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment Before her appointment, Sykes was known for her tough sentences during her seven years as a Milwaukee County circuit judge. She also spent seven years as a business lawyer, a year as a law clerk for a federal district judge and a year as a newspaper reporter. The candidates accepted public financing and ran a low-budget race with little controversy. Legal experts who knew the candidates said that both were well-qualified for the By Cary Segall Wisconsin State Journal Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Diane Sykes beat Milwaukee Municipal Judge Louis Butler by nearly a 2-1 margin Tuesday to win a 10-year term on the high court.

Sykes, who was appointed to the court by Gov. Tommy Thompson in September to finish the term of Justice Don Steinmetz, thanked voters from her party at the Astor Hotel in Milwaukee. "I would like to say thank you to the people of Wisconsin for the vote of confidence that they have given me," Sykes said, "and for the important public trust that they have placed in my hand." Sykes, 42, of Bayside, said she was proud of the fact that she and Butler had run positive, dignified campaigns and reversed the trend of recent high court races. Butler, 48, of Milwaukee, called Sykes from his party at Mader's Restaurant in Milwaukee and congratulated her. Bush Gore WISCONSIN PRESIDENTIAL RESULTS Republican (3,574 of 3,860 wards reporting) Gary Bauer 1,645 George W.

Bush 314,902 Steve Forbes 5,011 Orrin G. Hatch 1,597 Alan Lee Keyes 45,220 John McCain 82,542 Uninstructed delegation 3,165 Democrat (3,582 of 3,860 wards reporting) Bill Bradley 30,294 AIGore 304,180 Lyndon LaRouche 3,477 Uninstructed delegation 3,786 Sykes Butler WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT Results are unofficial. (I) denotes incumbent. (3,563 of 3,860 wards reporting) Diane Sykes 489,840 Louis Butler 259,829 REGION SCHOOL REFERENDUMS Into the polling place Uaa. ifc REGION MUNICIPAL REFERENDUMS Results are unofficial.

NA means results were not available. Brodhead (With no wards reporting) The city of Brodhead should not pro- ceed with repair of the Decatur Lake Dam and should remove it? Advisory. 'Yes NA NA Dodgeville (4 of 4 wards reporting) Sound all fire warning sirens in Dodgeville on the occasion of each fire between 7 a.m. and 1 0 p.m.? Yes 544 No 80 Sound all fire sirens in Dodgeville each day at noon except Sunday? 490 No 94 LakeDelton (With all wards reporting) Should the village add fluoride to the municipal water supply? Advisory. fYes 189 No 83 Lake Mills (With partial wards reporting) Abandon the city manager 'position and elect a mayor instead? Yes 745 Westby (With all wards reporting) Close the city-owned liquor store? Yes 144 No 394 Grant retail licenses to sell beer? Yes ..130 No ...333 PI Results are unofficial.

NA means results were not available. Cambria-Friesland (5 of 8 wards reporting) Exceed revenue limits by $100,000 for three years starting in 2000? Yes 127 No 187 DeSoto (8 of 10 wards reporting) Exceed revenue limits by $280,000 for 2000-2001 for the fund balance? Yes 211 No 267 Johnson Creek (With all wards reporting) Spend $1.1 million for repairs and renovations at the district's schools? Yes 362 No 246 Exceed revenue limits by Yes 303 No 301 Mauston (With all wards reporting) Exceed revenue limits by $700,000 starting in 2000 for operations? Yes 843 No 806 Palmyra-Eagle (With all wards reporting) Spend $18.5 million for a high school and other building improvements? Yes 1,054 No 1,494 Exceed revenue limits by $500,000 starting in 2001 for operations? Yes 861 No 1,628 Pecatonlca (With 8 or 1 3 wards reporting) Exceed revenue limits by $200,000 starting in 2000 for operations? Yes 421 No 404 i 5 CRAIG SCHREINEFWSJ photo A large flag beckons voters at Peace Lutheran Church on Century Avenue in Waunakee, one of the city's two polling places. No 1,908 No 1,756 No 2,263 Exceed revenue limits by $482,000 Waunakee beginning in 2001 for 5-6 school? Yes 2,114 No 1,894 (18 of 22 wards reporting) Spend up to $38 million for a high school and other improvements? Grant retail license to sell liquor Yes ...113 No 351 Exceed limits by $290,000 starting in 2000 for instructional technology? Yes 2,381 No 1,811 Spend up to $2.8 million to build and equip a high school auditorium? Yes 2,075 No ....2,101 Yes 1 292 Exceed revenue limits by $300,000 No until 2010 for capital maintenance? DANE SCHOOL REFERENDUMS Results are unofficial. DeForest (All wards reporting) Spend up to $24.9 million for a 5-6 school and building improvements? Yes 2,533 No 1,654 Exceed revenue cap by $695,000 for new 5-6 building and high school? Yes 2,277 Yes 2,251 No 1,728 Verona Oregon Spend up to $3.5 million to build a high school swimming pool? Yes 1,033 No 1,805 Exceed cap by $500,000 starting in 2002 if high school or pool approved? Yes 1,143 No ..1,706 (All wards reporting) (All wards reporting) Spend up to $11.9 million to build and Exceed revenue limits by $890,000 equip a 5-6 school? starting in 2000 for operations? Yes 2,245 Yes 2,360 Thompson's brother is Tomah mayor Associated Press TOMAH Ed Thompson, the governor's younger brother and an advocate of legalizing video gambling in taverns, ousted incumbent Bud Johnson on Tuesday and will become mayor of this city of 8,000 people. "I'm the Poynette Watching democracy in action (3 of 8 wards reporting) Exceed revenue limits by $200,000 starting In 2000 for operations? Yes ......146 No 196 Norquist wins 4th term as Milwaukee mavor I mm i up u- TP mmt- 1 Rubicon mayors brother now," Gov.

Tommy Thompson quipped when interviewed in Madison. "I'm very pleased with his showing and looking forward to working with Associated Press MILWAUKEE Mayor John Norquist won a fourth four-year term Tuesday, defeating downtown businessman George Watts, who targeted Norquist's record on crime, taxes and keeping jobs in the city. Milwaukee County Executive F. Thomas Ament also easily won another term. 'X.

elected on the promise to shake (With all wards reporting) things up, and I'll continue to Spend $630,000 to expand and reno- shake things up for the next four vate the district's K-8 school? years." Yes 157 Watts largely played to the No 131 right of Norquist, questioning the mjlon 8mJ anfliT InSiT disWct'8 SCh00' 8dd nesses and law enforcement. Watts challenged Norquist's as- gym and locker rooms? sertion that crime in Milwaukee is Jy going down and called for the ouster of Police Chief Arthur Jones. Conceding defeat, Watts said he hopes some of his ideas will be adopted by Norquist. 1 V'. With all precincts reporting, Norquist had 52,847 votes, or 56 percent, according to unofficial returns.

Watts had 41,582 votes, or 44 percent. DANE CITY REFERENDUMS Thompson him," The turnout of 52 percent of Tomah's registered voters was the largest in a spring election in at least a dozen years. "Hey, we won big," Ed Thomp- son, 55, told his 58-year-old brother in a telephone conversation from a victory party at the supper club he owns. About 200 people crammed into his Mr. Ed's Tee Pee, wearing yellow "Ed Thompson for mayor" stickers on their chests.

A line of people congratulated the winner, some leaning over the bar to give him kisses and hugs. At one point, Police Chief Eric Johnson pushed his way through the revelers and handed Ed Thompson a mock bench warrant stating he was guilty of impersonating a politician and sentencing him to serve two years as Tomah's mayor. Tomah is about 80 miles northwest of Madison. Results are unofficial. "Losing is tough, but we've learned some things," Watts said.

"Mayor Norquist is going to have to change his ways or this city will be in even deeper trouble." Ament, a former chairman of the Milwaukee County Board, easily won a third term as county executive. With 97 percent of precincts reporting, Ament had 121,795 votes, or 80 percent Challenger Dave Schall received 31,096 votes, or 20 percent. CRAIG SCHREINERWSJ photo Norquist Norquist, elected in 1988, is the longest-serving mayor of a U.S. city with more than 500,000 residents. "I'm proud to be your mayor," Norquist told supporters at the Irish Cultural' Center.

"I was Monona (All wards reporting) Expand the Monona library at a cost of up to $2.95 million? Yes 1,735 No 674 One-year-old Jacob Love and his sister, Sarah, 5, scan the polling scene at Peace Lutheran Church In Waunakee while their mother, Carolyn, votes on Tuesday. "Si i.