Possible WI Senate candidate Eric Hovde has missed voting in 17 of last 30 elections

Bice: Possible Senate candidate Eric Hovde has missed voting in 17 of last 30 elections


https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/investigations/daniel-bice/2023/10/16/possible-senate-candidate-eric-hovde-has-poor-voting-record-since-2012/71121418007/


Daniel Bice
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Madison mogul Eric Hovde will want you to cast your ballot for him if he decides to take on Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin next year.

But records show Hovde has often done a poor job getting to the polls himself in the past decade.

Of the last 15 contests since the 2018 general election, Hovde has voted in only six of them.

Hovde, a banker and property manager, is one of several Republicans considering taking on Baldwin, who is in her second term in Washington, D.C. Others considering a bid include Franklin businessman Scott Mayer and former Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr.

In 2019, for instance, Hovde didn't vote in the hotly contested spring contest between conservative Brian Hagedorn and liberal Lisa Neubauer for the state Supreme Court, an election Hagedorn won by only about 6,000 votes. There's no record that Hovde requested an absentee ballot to vote in this race.

Hovde also skipped the spring election in April 2022. The Facebook page for one of his California banks shows he was in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, on a luxury sportfisher on an "annual bond trip" the day before the election.
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