Candidates for various offices revealed

Nomination papers for those seeking elected various positions in the spring election have been filed and the list of candidates is as follows:

OSHKOSH COMMON COUNCIL (3 seats available, there will be a primary)

Michelle Bogden
Michael Domke
Paul Esslinger (incumbent)
Mark Madison
Dennis McHugh
Mary Meyst
Kent Monte
Brian Poeschl
Burk Tower (incumbent)


OSHKOSH SCHOOL BOARD (3 seats available, there will be a primary)
Dan Becker (incumbent)
John Daggett
Larry Didlo
Dennis Kavanaugh (incumbent)
Michelle Monte
Wayne Traska
Amy Weinsheim (incumbent)
Lee Wilson


WINNEBAGO COUNTY BOARD (all 38 seats available, 5 of which are open at this time)

District 12 (includes part of the city of Oshkosh and part of the Town of Oshkosh)
Kenneth Anderson will run uncontested for a seat vacated by Tom Pech Jr.

District 14 (includes part of the City of Oshkosh)
Donna Lohry will challenge incumbent Harold Steineke.

District 17 (includes part of the City of Oshkosh)
Jef Hall will challenge incumbent Paul Sundquist.

District 22 (includes part of the City of Oshkosh)
Barbara Spanbauer will run uncontested for the seat vacated by Frank Tower

District 23 (includes part of the City of Oshkosh and part of the Town of Algoma)
Dennis Rumlow plans to challenge incumbent Ken Robl.

District 27 (includes part of the Town of Menasha and part of the City of Menasha)
Paul Eisen will run uncontested to fill a seat vacated by Herb Kramer.

District 5 (includes part of the City of Neenah)
Shiloh Ramos plans to challenge incumbent Phil Scoville.

District 33 (includes part of the Town of Algoma)
Isaac Pabst will challenge Jeanette Diakoff

Branch I of the Winnebago County Circuit Court, currently presided over by Judge Thomas J. Gritton
Thomas J. Gritton (incumbent)
Caroline Carver

Branch IV of the Winnebago County Circuit Court, bench being vacated by retiring Judge Robert Hawley (there will be a primary here)

Len Kachinsky, currently a criminal defense attorney and Town of Menasha municipal judge
William Lennon, currently the Winnebago County DA
Karen Seifert, currently a court commissioner in Winnebago County

It is encouraging and refreshing to see so many candidates running for public office and they are all to be congratulated for taking this first step.

We will begin taping shows with those candidates for whom there will be a February 21 primary election as soon as possible. Because some of the fields of candidates are so large, we will only be able to spend about 13 minutes with each candidate in this first round of interviews. But following the primary election, we will focus on interviewing all candidates who will be on the ballot in the general election on April 4. The time we can spend with these candidates will be longer so we can have more in-depth discussions with them about their candidacy.

In the meantime, if you have questions for any or all of the candidates, please feel free to send them to us at hosts@eyeonoshkosh.com. We will ask them of the individual candidates when they appear.

We also invite candidates, if they choose, to provide us with a summary of their qualifications and a statement as to why they're running. Candidates may submit these items via email and we will post them or they can be posted directly by the candidates themselves. Good luck to all!

- Cheryl Hentz