By Blake Jackson
The Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation’s political action committee, Volunteers for Agriculture (VFA), has announced its endorsements for candidates running for the Wisconsin State Senate and Assembly ahead of the November 3 general election.
The VFA Committee consists of 18 farmers from communities across Wisconsin. The endorsement process is based on input from local county Farm Bureau organizations, candidate interviews, voting records, and positions on important agricultural issues. Through this process, Wisconsin farmers have a direct role in identifying candidates they believe understand and support agriculture and rural communities.
State Senate Endorsements
VFA endorsed 10 candidates for the State Senate:
- Nic Cravillion (R) – 1st Senate District
- Amy Binsfeld (R) – 9th Senate District
- Ellen Schutt (R) – 11th Senate District
- John Jagler (R) – 13th Senate District
- Howard Marklein (R) – 17th Senate District
- Rachael Cabral-Guevara (R) – 19th Senate District
- Romaine Quinn (R) – 23rd Senate District
- Erik Severson (R) – 25th Senate District
- Dianne Hesselbein (D) – 27th Senate District
- Cory Tomczyk (R) – 29th Senate District
State Assembly Endorsements
The organization also endorsed 57 candidates for the State Assembly:
- Joel Kitchens (R) – 1st District
- Shae Sortwell (R) – 2nd District
- David Steffen (R) – 4th District
- Joy Goeben (R) – 5th District
- Elijah Behnke (R) – 6th District
- Darrin Madison (D) – 10th District
- Adam Neylon (R) – 15th District
- Margaret Arney (D) – 18th District
- Paul Melotik (R) – 22nd District
- Dan Knodl (R) – 24th District
- Paul Tittl (R) – 25th District
- Lindee Brill (R) – 27th District
- Rob Kreibrich (R) – 28th District
- Treig Pronschinske (R) – 29th District
- Shannon Zimmerman (R) – 30th District
- Tyler August (R) – 31st District
- Amanda Nedweski (R) – 32nd District
- Steve Wicklund (R) – 33rd District
- Rob Swearingen (R) – 34th District
- Calvin Callahan (R) – 35th District
- Jeff Mursau (R) – 36th District
- Mark Born (R) – 37th District
- Will Penterman (R) – 38th District
- Alex Dallman (R) – 39th District
- Karen DeSanto (D) – 40th District
- Tony Kurtz (R) – 41st District
- Maureen McCarville (D) – 42nd District
- Ann Roe (D) – 44th District
- Clinton Anderson (D) – 45th District
- Joan Fitzgerald (D) – 46th District
- Travis Tranel (R) – 49th District
- Bill Oemichen (D) – 50th District
- Todd Novak (R) – 51st District
- Nate Gustafson (R) – 55th District
- Kevin Krentz (R) – 57th District
- Bernie Newman (R) – 58th District
- Bradley Peterson (R) – 59th District
- Marty Ryan (R) – 60th District
- Robert Wittke (R) – 63rd District
- Tip McGuire (D) – 64th District
- David Armstrong (R) – 67th District
- Rob Summerfield (R) – 68th District
- Karen Hurd (R) – 69th District
- Nancy VanderMeer (R) – 70th District
- Scott Krug (R) – 72nd District
- Chanz Green (R) – 74th District
- Duke Tucker (R) – 75th District
- Mike Bare (D) – 80th District
- Dave Maxey (R) – 83rd District
- Patrick Snyder (R) – 85th District
- John Spiros (R) – 86th District
- Brent Jacobson (R) – 87th District
- Benjamin Franklin (R) – 88th District
- Clint Moses (R) – 92nd District
- Cedric Schnitzler (R) – 95th District
- Cindi Duchow (R) – 97th District
- Barbara Dittrich (R) – 99th District
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