Wisconsin 8th Assembly District Candidate Enrique Murguia (D) Collected 63 Elector Nomination Signatures From The 9th District, Filed Complaint Alleged

The manager for the JoAnna For Wisconsin campaign alleged that Democratic candidate Enrique Murguia actually obtained at least 63 elector nomination signatures to be placed on the ballot from the Wisconsin State Assembly District 9 and not from the 8th Assembly District, which he is running to fill the seat recently vacated by JoCasta Zamarripa (D) who decided not to run for reelection. Candidates need 200 valid elector nomination signatures to get on the August Partisan Primary Election ballot.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

June 5, 2020

Madison, Wisconsin - On Thursday, Jackson Weber, the campaign manager for the JoAnna for Wisconsin (Democratic candidate JoAnna Bautch) in the Wisconsin State Assembly 8th District filed a election complaint with the Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC) claiming that Enrique Murguia, Democratic candidate in the Wisconsin State Assembly 8th District collected at least 63 elector nomination signatures from the 9th Assembly District and not from the 8th Assembly District, thus making those signatures ineligible to place him on the ballot for the August 11, 2020 Partisan Primary Election. Weber also claimed that 13 other electors either failed to sign their complete names and to enter date when signed and in one case, an elector signed Murguia's nomination paper after Murguia, the circulator signed the nomination paper as the circulator.

Murguia turned in at least 253 nomination signatures to get on the ballot for the Partisan Primary Election in August. If Weber prevails in his complaint against Murguia and the WEC agrees with Weber, Murguia will not be on the ballot in August.

Candidate Bautch is State Representative Zamarripa's sister.

So far, the WEC approved the following candidates to be on the Partisan Primary Election ballot in the State Assembly 8th District, Sylvia Ortiz-Velez (D), JoAnna Bautch (D), Enrique Murguia (D), Angel J. Sanchez (R) and Ruben Velez (R). The highest vote getter in the Primary Election for each partisan political party will face off in the General Election in November. 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA) has also noticed that Republican MAGA (Make America Great Again/Keep America Great) candidate Ruben Velez submitted 382 nomination signatures, which 2/3's of the totaled elector signatures were collected by known MAGA enthusiast Mario Herrera, who is the former Hispanic Outreach Director for the Republican Party of Wisconsin and who in August 2019 helped create a fake Latino MAGA Facebook page with Dawn Maldonado, aka, "Damaris Perez" to target non-MAGA Latino community members in Milwaukee with Nazi propaganda and fake allegations.

In the 9th Wisconsin State Assembly District, the following candidates were approved to be in the August Partisan Election, Incumbent Marisabel Cabrera (D) and Christian Saldivar (D). Veronica Diaz, the only Republican on the ballot in the 9th Assembly District will face off the democrat that prevails in the Primary Election, in the November General Election.