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22nd district primary vote held tomorrow
14-year incumbent seeks higher office, vacates position
By Kevin Lessmiller
“I believe public service can make a difference in peoples’ lives” – Dan Kohl, 22nd district state assembly candidate
The primary elections for 22nd district state Assembly will be held tomorrow, after the incumbent representative of 14 years decided to run for state Senate.
The race features a total of five candidates – four Democrats and a lone Republican. The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee is located in Wisconsin’s 22nd district.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recently endorsed Sandra Pasch of Whitefish Bay. Pasch is a veteran health care professional who recently coordinated Milwaukee’s Crisis Intervention Team.
Andy Feldman will also be on the ballot as a Democrat. Feldman graduated from Whitefish Bay High School and went on to become a staff economist on the White House Council of Economic Advisors during the Clinton Administration.
Feldman has a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University and served as a public management instructor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, according to his website.
Also running as a Democrat is Guy Johnson, President of the Shorewood Village Board. Johnson is also currently the Director of the Executive Masters of Business Administration (MBA) Program at UWM’s Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business.
Johnson received an engineering degree at Marquette University and his MBA from UWM.
The only Republican candidate that will be on tomorrow’s ballot is Yash Wadhwa. Wadhwa is the Director of Operations for the Strand Associates, Inc. Milwaukee office. Before that, he was owner of Larsen Engineers, S.C. for 21 years.
Wadhwa came to the United States in 1969 for graduate school in Pittsburgh after receiving a bachelor’s degree at the University of Delhi in India.
According to Wadhwa’s website, then-Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist declared August 25, 1988 as “Yash P. Wadhwa Day” in his honor.
The fourth Democratic candidate, Dan Kohl, former assistant general manager of the Milwaukee Bucks, gave his thoughts on the primary race.
“I believe public service can make a difference in peoples’ lives,” said Kohl, who obtained his Master’s Degree in History from UWM. “I’m running for this office because I am dedicated to the city of Milwaukee.”
Kohl, also the SEED Foundation’s Wisconsin director of new schools development, cited various concerns such as education, health care, and poverty, as key issues for constituents in the 22nd district.
Following tomorrow’s primary vote, the general election for the 22nd District Wisconsin State Assembly race is Nov. 4.
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