{"id":2079,"date":"2008-11-17T12:08:30","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T18:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inside.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2008-11-17T12:08:30","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T18:08:30","slug":"auggie-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2008\/11\/17\/auggie-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Auggie election results"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/em>\"vote\"When the Minnesota Legislature reconvenes in early January, four Augsburg College alums–three in the House of Representatives and one in the Senate–will help determine just how the state deals with a budget deficit that will likely be more than $1 billion.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Augsburg alums Diane Loeffler ’75, Larry Hosch ’04, and Linda Slocum all won reelection to the house. Because Minnesota senators have four-year terms, Rod Skoe ’77 was not up for re-election and is entering the second two years of his term.<\/p>\n

Here’s a look at the four legislators with Augsburg ties:<\/p>\n

Diane Loeffler (DFL-Minneapolis)<\/p>\n

Loeffler represents District 59A in Northeast Minneapolis. She earned a BA in social sciences from Augsburg and is entering her third term. Loeffler won her race easily as she received just more than 75 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n

Larry Hosch (DFL-St. Joseph)<\/p>\n

Hosch represents District 14B in Stearns County. While he did his undergraduate work at St. John’s, he earned a master’s in Social Work from Augsburg. Hosch returns for his third term after winning more than 67 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n

Linda Slocum (DFL-Richfield)<\/p>\n

Slocum received 66 percent of the vote in District 63B, which includes part of Richfield and part of Bloomington. A teacher, Slocum was an undergraduate at Simpson College in Iowa and did graduate work in education at Augsburg.<\/p>\n

Rod Skoe (DFL-Clearbook)<\/p>\n

Skoe, who represents District 2 in Northwestern Minnesota, won’t be up for reelection until 2010. He received a BA from Augsburg. Skoe, a farmer, spent two terms in the House before being elected to the Senate for the first time in 2002.<\/p>\n

Three others with Augsburg ties were defeated in Minnesota House races. Sandy Wollschlager was the incumbent in District 28A but was defeated by Republican Tim Kelly in a close race. Sharon Lawrence, a DFLer, lost to Tom Hackbarth in District 48A. And current graduate student Eric Franzen lost to the current Speaker of the House, Margaret Anderson Kelliher, in District 60A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the Minnesota Legislature reconvenes in early January, four Augsburg College alums–three in the House of Representatives and one in the Senate–will help determine just how the state deals with a budget deficit that will likely be more than $1 billion. Earlier this month, Augsburg alums Diane Loeffler ’75, Larry Hosch ’04, and Linda Slocum …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[254,824,1647,1684],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-auggie-election","tag-diane-loeffler","tag-larry-hosch","tag-linda-slocum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}