{"id":1421537,"date":"2022-04-06T09:14:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T13:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421537"},"modified":"2022-04-06T09:14:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T13:14:42","slug":"kenosha-elects-republican-executive-after-decades-of-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kenosha-elects-republican-executive-after-decades-of-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenosha Elects Republican Executive After Decades of Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkenosha-elects-republican-executive-after-decades-of-democrats%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421537&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The county of Kenosha, Wisconsin, elected a Republican executive on Tuesday after decades of electing Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSamantha Kerkman defeated Rebecca Matoska-Mentink in Tuesday\u2019s Spring Election to become the next Kenosha County executive,\u201d announced <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenoshanews.com\/news\/local\/breaking-samantha-kerkman-winner-of-kenosha-county-executive-race\/article_ea2d77b6-b552-11ec-bdf3-67f76be8e612.html\">Kenosha News<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0\u201cIn unofficial results, Kerkman, of Salem Lakes, received 14,693 votes, or 51.32% of the vote. Matoska-Mentink, of Pleasant Prairie, received 13,886, or 48.5% of the vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The 47-year-old Kerkman (pictured) will be the first woman and fifth county executive in Kenosha County. She will replace current County Executive Jim Kreuser, who has held the office since 2008.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING NEWS:<br \/>The Republicans have just flipped the Kenosha County Executive after years of Democrat dominance<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Real Political Data (@RealPData) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealPData\/status\/1511527198905225221?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After two years in the headlines for various forms of violence, Kenosha has elected a Republican executive for the first time in decades. This is a key light-red swing county in Wisconsin. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M4bgvdtmeV\">https:\/\/t.co\/M4bgvdtmeV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RRH Elections (@RRHElections) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RRHElections\/status\/1511543358707179521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cI want to thank all my supporters and everyone who came out to vote,\u201d Kerkman said late Tuesday. \u201cBecky called and I appreciate that. In the new role, we\u2019ll work very closely together. I look forward to working with the County Board, and all the county offices.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>Kerkman credited her experience for the victory.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>\u201cI think it was the experience that I bring from Madison,\u201d Kerkman said. \u201cI have been working with the county executive for years on issues that impact the county.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though the race is \u201cnon-partisan,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox6now.com\/news\/kenosha-county-executive-election\">FOX6<\/a> reports that both candidates previously \u201cran as members of major political parties \u2013 Clerk of Courts Matoska-Mentink a Democrat, State Rep. Kerkman a Republican.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats back Matoska-Mentink and Republicans back Kerkman,\u201d the report said. \u201cIt is a swing county in the swing state. In 2016, former President Donald Trump won it by 238 votes \u2013 becoming the first Republican to win the county since Richard Nixon. In 2020, Trump won by 2,700.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kenosha attracted considerable attention in 2020 and 2021 due to the Black Lives Matter riots following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, which culminated in the trial and eventual acquittal of 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse for killing two rioters in self-defense.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The county of Kenosha, Wisconsin, elected a Republican executive on Tuesday after decades of electing Democrats. \u201cSamantha Kerkman defeated Rebecca Matoska-Mentink in Tuesday\u2019s Spring Election to become the next Kenosha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}