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One Incumbent Ousted From County Board: Six Newcomers Join Three Veteran Members

Posted on: Wednesday, 5 April 2006, 03:01 CDT

By Don Behm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Apr. 5--One of four incumbent Washington County supervisors facing an opponent in Tuesday's spring election was defeated.

Roy Justman easily ousted Thomas Smith in the 1st District, representing the northwest side of West Bend. Justman received 65% of votes cast.

Incumbents Mary Krumbiegel of the Town of Jackson, James Spindler of Germantown and Harold Groth of the Town of Polk held on to their seats.

Krumbiegel turned back a challenge from Germantown Trustee Bill Steitz, while Spindler turned away Germantown Trustee Peter Sorce. Groth defeated challenger Joe Walter.

Among newcomers gaining a seat on the County Board was Gerald Schulz, Town of Wayne treasurer, who will represent the 9th District in the northwestern corner of the county. He will be joined novice Rick Gundrum in the 16th District, representing portions of Slinger and Polk.

Germantown Trustee Mel Ewert won election to the County Board in his second attempt for the office.

In other contested races featuring only newcomers, Leslie Borman defeated Thomas Petri and will represent the 30th District. Dan Knodl defeated Jerry Grosenick to take the 29th District. The 29th and 30th districts each are located in Germantown

The County Board's 30 members meet April 18 to begin a new two-year term.

County municipal races: Richfield voters gave incumbent town Supervisor John Jeffords another two-year term in office. In choosing between two political novices to fill one other seat, voters selected Greg Galinsky a margin of only 11 votes over John Bogues.

Slinger Village Trustee Steve Van Maldegiam lost his seat after one term to David Otte.

Incumbent Jackson Town Supervisor Robert Hartwig won re-election. But the top vote-getter in the town Tuesday might have been write-in candidate Dan Kufahl. An unexpected surge of 321 ballots with write-ins were still being counted at press time.

School board races: Kewaskum voters again rejected Neal Weare. Bruce Braidigan, who led the charge to recall Weare in December, and newcomer Stephen Jensen won the board's two empty seats.

Slinger voters re-elected Ken Strupp. Newcomer Kim Ramos outpolled incumbent Larry Hejlik.

Richfield's top vote-getter was newcomer Michael Shea. Incumbents Gaye Lynn Kiel and Tom Touchett won the other two seats.

Katharine Goodloe and Lawrence Sussman of the Journal Sentinel staff contributed to this report.

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Source: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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