Dane Dems

Spring Endorsements, Round 1 – Vote on 2/5!

NOTE: All candidates who were recommended for endorsement at this meeting received an endorsement via vote by the membership.

In addtion, Martha Siravo, candidate for MMSD Seat 3, received an endorsement from the floor.

At our February Membership Meeting, we’ll hear from State Superintendent of Schools candidate Jeff Wright.

Dane Dems members will also have the opportunity to vote on our first round of endorsement recommendations, listed below.

You must have an active membership before the time voting begins to vote on endorsements.  Join today or renew your membership now by clicking here!

This will be a hybrid meeting.  Zoom registration: https://tinyurl.com/DaneDemsFeb2025

Please note that there will be a second round of endorsements to vote on at the March 12 meeting.  Given the number of endorsement requests we received there was no possibility that we could render a decison on all of them in the 9 days between the time questionnaires were due and the time we needed to have endorsement recommendations posted for the February meeting.  Also, our governing documents prohibit us from making an endorsement in a primary where 2+ Democrats are running and fewer seats are available than the number of Democrats running, so we cannot make endorsements in those races by February 5.

Candidates recommended for endorsement

Madison Common Council

John Duncan — District 1
Will Ochowicz — District 2

Derek Field — District 3

Eli Tsarovsky — District 4
Mike Verveer — District 4
Regina Vidaver — District 5
Badri Lankella — District 7

MGR Govindarajan — District 8

Tag Evers — District 13
Noah Lieberman — District 14
Ryan Koglin — District 15 

Sean O’Brien — District 16 

Sabrina Madison — District 17

John Guequierre — District 19

 

Madison School Board

Ali Muldrow — Seat 4

Nichelle Nichols — Seat 5

Cottage Grove Village Board

Cynthia Kelm-Nelson — President

Fitchburg City Council

Bill Jetzer — District 2, Seat 3


McFarland Village Board

Carolyn Clow — President

Waunakee School Board

Heather Murray


Waunakee Village Board

Sam Kaufmann — Trustee
Robert McPherson — President

Not recommended for endorsement: Bret Wagner, Madison School Board — Seat 3