Klink likely nominee
Rep. Ron Klink last night won the Democratic race to challenge Sen. Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican.
With 74 percent of precincts reporting, according to the Associated Press, Mr. Klink had 42 percent of the vote, while state Sen. Allyson Y. Schwartz had 25 percent and former state Labor Secretary Thomas P. Foley had 24 percent. Three other candidates shared 9 percent.
Mr. Klink, Mr. Foley and Miss Schwartz largely refrained from attacking each other, choosing instead to take shots at Mr. Santorum, a major foe of partial-birth abortion who drew no Republican opposition.
Wisconsin voters also went to the polls yesterday, and Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist won a fourth four-year term.
Mr. Norquist had 55 percent of the vote to downtown businessman George Watts’ 45 percent.
Mr. Watts ran to the right of the Democratic mayor on the city’s business climate and law enforcement.
In the small Wisconsin town of Tomah, Ed Thompson, the younger brother of Gov. Tommy Thompson, beat incumbent Mayor Bud Johnson 1,179 to 909.
Ed Thompson has been a Las Vegas poker professional, a prison cook, a snowplow driver, and a “Toughman” fighter.
Meanwhile, in the formalities that are the presidential primaries now, Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush yesterday easily won Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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