Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch reports:

Wisconsin’s spring non-partisan primary is today, and turnout state wide is predicted to be lower than normal. There is only one state wide race on the ballot – the Superintendent of Public Instruction, where five candidates are running and two will move on to the April 7 general election.

Local districts including counties, cities and towns have various offices that require primaries as well.

There are 10 Green Party candidates running for office in Wisconsin this spring so far, five of whom have primaries today:

• Todd Price – Superintendent of Public Instruction. Todd Price has demonstrated that he is not only the “progressive” in the race but also a viable candidate. He has been endorsed by the Wisconsin Green Party, Progressive Dane, Educator Roundtable, Green Change, and has gotten some very favorable write ups in the Racine Post , Cap Times and today at Fighting Bob. While Tony Evers is the likely winner today, the second place candidate is up in the air.
• Brenda Konkel – Madison Common Council. Brenda is running for a fourth term on the Council, and this time she has opponents, four of them. Brenda introduced Malik Rahim at the 2008 Green Party Convention in Chicago.
• Katrina Flores – Madison Common Council. Flores is a new candidate, endorsed just recently by the Four Lakes Green Party. She is one of four candidates seeking an open seat in the most predominantly student district in Madison. Katrina is a co-founder of the MultiCultural Student Coalition, founder of the Youth Engaged through Language Project, performer and chair of the Women of the Scarred Earth Rising Tide Performance & Popular Education Project and former member of the 2005 Madison Adult National Slam Team.
• Tony Palmeri – Oshkosh Common Council. Palmeri is seeking a second term on the council. All seven Council members are elected at large, voters vote for three. There are seven candidates on the ballot, and six will move on to the general election. Tony has been called both a “progressive” and a “cobblestoner”, he is a professor but with a blue collar identity. He has broad support throughout the city, and a few dozen people who despise him.
• Bob Poeschl – Oshkosh Common Council. Poeschl has run for the Council before, but never with the enthusiasm and determination that he has this time. Neighborhood empowerment is one of his main themes. He has developed wider support than previous campaigns and is in a good position to be one of the six candidates that move on to the general election. Note: Poeschl and Palmeri are running in the same race. The top three candidates on April 7 will be seated.

Other Wisconsin Green Party candidates running this spring that do not have primaries include Satya Rhodes-Conway (Madison), Marsha Rummel (Madison), Bruce Hinkforth (Oconomowoc), and JoEllen Gramling (Clerk, Town of Schleswig). Pete Karas is running in a special election for Mayor of Racine. This race will have a Primary on April 7, and a “general election” on May 5.

In early results (emailed by a source who asked to remain unidentified)…

Todd Price, a Green, lost in his bid for Superintendent of Schools. It was a non-partisan race. 5 candidates were in a run-off/primary today, with the top two going forward. Todd was not in the top two.

MADISON, Wis. — Deputy state superintendent Tony Evers and virtual schools advocate Rose Fernandez emerged from a field of five candidates to advance in the state superintendent race Tuesday.Evers was the top vote-getter Tuesday with 37 percent, based on early results. Fernandez had 30 percent, with 38 percent of precincts reporting.They will face each other in the April 7 general election.They finished ahead of three other candidates who were eliminated. They were Concordia University professor Van Mobley, National-Louis University professor Todd Price and Beloit schools superintendent Lowell Holtz.The nonpartisan post is largely administrative with little real power but the ability to use the post as a bully pulpit to push for education initiatives.

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