Summerfield re-elected to 67th Assembly District and Kind re-elected to 3rd U.S. Congressional District
By LeAnn R. Ralph
COLFAX — Incumbent state Representative Rob Summerfield (67th Assembly District) and incumbent United States Congressman Ron Kind (Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District) won re-election November 3.
Rep. Summerfield (R-Bloomer) faced Dr. Chris Kapsner (D-Boyceville) for representative of the 67th Assembly District.
According to unofficial election results, Summerfield received 21,180 votes (64 percent), while Kapsner received 11,921 votes (36 percent).
The 67th Assembly District includes in Dunn County the Towns of Colfax, Elk Mound, Grant, Hay River, Otter Creek, Red Cedar, Sand Creek, Sheridan, Sherman, Spring Brook, Tainter and Wilson; the Villages of Colfax, Elk Mound, Ridgeland and Wheeler; and parts of Barron County and Chippewa County.
Rep. Summerfield, who was running for his third term in the Wisconsin Assembly, works at the family businesses, Two Acres Supper Club and Chippewa Valley Land Title.
Summerfield first ran for representative of the 67th Assembly District when Rep. Tom Larson (R-Colfax) decided not to run for re-election.
Dr. Kapsner, who owns a farm in the Town of Sheridan north of Boyceville, is an emergency room physician associated with Western Wisconsin Health in Baldwin and Abbot-Northwestern in Minneapolis.
Dr. Kapsner ran for the position of senator in the 23rd Senate District two years ago and lost to Republican Senator Kathy Bernier.
3rd Congressional
Congressman Kind faced challenger Derrick Van Orden.
According to unofficial election results, Kind (D-La Crosse) received 199,676 votes (51 percent), while Van Orden (R-Hager City) received 188,681 votes (49 percent).
The 3rd Congressional District includes the Counties of Adams, Buffalo, Chippewa, Crawford, Dunn, Eau Claire, Grant, Jackson, Juneau, La Crosse, Monroe, Pepin, Pierce, Portage, Richland, Trempealeau, Vernon and Wood.
Congressman Kind has represented the 3rd Congressional District since 1997. He is a native of La Crosse and graduated from La Crosse Logan High School. He earned a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard, a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a degree in law from the University of Minnesota.
Derrick Van Orden is a retired Navy SEAL. He and his wife, Mary Jane, have been married for nearly 30 years, and they live on a small hobby farm in Hager City.
After growing up in a rural area, Van Orden joined the Navy when he was 18 years old and served for 26 years. He retired as a Navy SEAL Senior Chief and had five combat deployments and several other deployments. His first combat deployment was to Bosnia Herzegovina, and he also served in combat tours to Afghanistan and Iraq. Van Orden has served in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South and Central America as well.
