Wausau Daily Herald

Type	Daily
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Gannett
Founded	1907
Headquarters	Wausau, WI
ISSN	0887-4271
Official website	www.wausaudailyherald.com

The Wausau Daily Herald is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Wausau, Wisconsin. It is the primary newspaper in Wausau and is distributed throughout Marathon and Lincoln counties. The Daily Herald is owned by the Gannett Company, which owns ten other newspapers in Wisconsin.

External links[link]

	Wisconsin portal
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The Daily Herald may refer to:

• Daily Herald (UK newspaper), a defunct top circulation British newspaper
• Daily Herald (Arlington Heights), a newspaper in suburban Chicago
• Daily Herald (Roanoke Rapids), a newspaper in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina
• Daily Herald (Utah), a newspaper in Utah County
• Daily Herald (Columbia, Tennessee), a newspaper in Columbia, Tennessee owned by Stephens Media

See also[link]

• Daily Herald Press, an American journalism cooperative
• Herald (disambiguation)

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Sean Duffy
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin's 7th district
Incumbent
Assumed office January 8, 2011
Preceded by	Dave Obey
Ashland County District Attorney
In office August 1, 2002 – July 9, 2010
Governor	Scott McCallum Jim Doyle
Preceded by	Michael Gableman
Succeeded by	Kelly McKnight
Personal details
Born	Sean Duffy (1971-10-03) October 3, 1971 (age 40) Hayward, Wisconsin
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Rachel Campos-Duffy (married 1999; 6 children)
Residence	Weston, Wisconsin
Alma mater	St. Mary's University William Mitchell College of Law
Profession	Prosecutor
Religion	Roman Catholic[1]

Sean Duffy^[2] (born October 3, 1971) is an American politician, prosecutor, former sports commentator and reality television personality. He first entered public life as a cast member on The Real World: Boston and 2002's Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons, before going on to serve as district attorney of Ashland County, Wisconsin^[3] and the U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 7th congressional district. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Early life and education[link]

Sean Duffy was born in Hayward, Wisconsin,^[4] on October 3, 1971, the tenth of 11 children of Carol Ann (née Yackel) and Thomas Walter Duffy. He is of Irish, English, German, and Norwegian descent.^[5] Duffy has a marketing degree from St. Mary's University, and a law degree from William Mitchell College of Law.^[6]

Duffy started log rolling at age 5 and speed climbing (sprinting up 60 and 90 foot poles) at 13. He holds two speed-climbing titles.^[7]

Television career[link]

Duffy has been an ESPN color commentator for televised competitions and in 2003 appeared as both a competitor and commentator on ESPN's Great Outdoor Games.^[6] He was named Badger State Games Honorary Athlete of the 2004 Winter Games.^[6]

In 1997, Duffy appeared on The Real World: Boston, the sixth season of the MTV reality television show, and on Road Rules: All Stars in 1998, where he met his future wife Rachel. Duffy later appeared on Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons, which aired in 2002. Both appeared in a filmed segment on 2008's The Real World Awards Bash, while Duffy served as district attorney.^[8]

Early political career[link]

Duffy, a Republican,^[9] was appointed to the district attorney's post in 2002^[10] by then Gov. Scott McCallum, and was elected unopposed in 2002,^[10] 2004,^[11] 2006^[12] and 2008. Upon assuming the office of district attorney, he succeeded Michael Gableman, a current justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Duffy was on the Republican slate of the 10 Wisconsin electors for the 2008 Presidential Election.^[13]

U.S. House of Representatives[link]

Elections[link]

2010

On July 8, 2009, Duffy announced his campaign for Congress in Wisconsin's seventh congressional district. Duffy was considered an underdog in the race until May 2010 when 15-term incumbent Democrat Representative Dave Obey announced that he would not seek re-election.^[14] Following Obey's announcement, Democratic State Senator Julie Lassa joined the race.

On June 4, 2010, Duffy announced his resignation from the position of District Attorney of Ashland County to focus on the congressional race. The resignation was effective three weeks later and Duffy returned to work in his father's law practice.^[15]

He won the race on November 2, 2010, in a nationwide wave of Republicans being elected to Congress.^[16] Different sources attribute his victory to his ten month head start on Lassa's campaign, his grassroots organization and fundraising, his experience as a district attorney, and voter discontent with the economy.^[17]

Tenure[link]

Duffy has voted with his party 91% of the time.^[18] On March 17, 2011, Duffy was one of only seven Republicans who voted "No" on a House bill that would strip all government funding from National Public Radio.^[19] He also voted against the repeal of the Davis-Bacon Act.^[20] The first piece of legislation he sponsored was the RESET Act, which called for using unspent money in Obama's economic stimulus plan to pay down the debt. The idea was later incorporated into a spending bill. He also introduced a resolution to ban earmarks. One of his sponsored legislation, to reform the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, passed the U.S. House but hasn't passed the U.S. Senate.^[20] The bill created a bipartisan commission made up of five members of Congress to replace the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director. The bill also gave the committee more room to get rid of polices that Duffy believes jeopardize the safety of the US banking system.^[21]

In March 2011, Duffy caused controversy when a video published by the Polk County Republicans, showing a public town hall-style meeting in his district, was removed after critics attacked the video. In the video, made in the wake of the passage of a controversial state bill which would have effectively frozen the salaries of state employees, Duffy was asked about whether he would be willing to cut his own $174,000 salary. Duffy responded that he would only be willing to do so as part of a general round of salary cuts for government employees, and insisted that he was "struggling" to get by, despite his salary being nearly three times the average for Wisconsin residents.^[22] The video has since been published in other locations.^{[23][24][25][26][27]}

From February to October 2011, Duffy voted yes on three different bills to approve limits on funding for Abortion. The bills were: 1) Amends Federal Health Care Law to Prohibit Abortion Coverage; 2) Prohibiting Taxpayer Funding of Abortion; 3) Prohibiting Use of Federal Funds For Planned Parenthood.^[28] Duffy cosponsored the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act and the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act.^[29] While the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act is presented by pro-life advocates as a straightforward bill intending to stop federal dollars from going to fund abortions, pro-choice advocates say that federal funding of abortion is already prohibited, and the bill's true intent is to restrict insurance coverage for and decrease access to abortions.^[30]

On December 22, 2011, Duffy and fellow GOP House freshman Rick Crawford (Arkansas), published an open letter to Speaker Boehner, urging the leader to allow the House to vote on the Senate's 2-month tax cut extension compromise.^[31]

Committee assignments[link]

Duffy serves on the Committee on Financial Services, in particular the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit and the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.^[32]

Electoral history[link]

• 2010 Race for U.S. House of Representatives — 7th District
  • Sean Duffy (R), 52%
  • Julie Lassa (D), 44%
• 2008 Race for District Attorney of Ashland County, Wisconsin
  • Sean Duffy (R) (inc.)
  • unopposed
• 2006 Race for District Attorney of Ashland County, Wisconsin
  • Sean Duffy (R) (inc.)
  • unopposed
• 2004 Race for District Attorney of Ashland County, Wisconsin
  • Sean Duffy (R) (inc.)
  • unopposed
• 2002 Race for District Attorney of Ashland County, Wisconsin
  • Sean Duffy (R) (inc.)
  • unopposed

Personal life[link]

Duffy is married to Rachel Campos-Duffy, an alumna of The Real World: San Francisco.^[33][34][35] They live in Ashland, Wisconsin.^[36] They have six children: Evita Pilar, Xavier Jack, Lucia-Belen, John-Paul, Paloma Pilar and MariaVictoria Margarita.^[37][38]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official House of Representatives website
• Sean Duffy for Congress campaign website
• Biography at WhoRunsGov.com at The Washington Post
• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Voting record maintained by The Washington Post
• Biography, voting record, and interest group ratings at Project Vote Smart
• Congressional profile at GovTrack
• Congressional profile at OpenCongress
• Issue positions and quotes at On the Issues
• Financial information at OpenSecrets.org
• Staff salaries, trips and personal finance at LegiStorm.com
• Campaign finance reports and data at the Federal Election Commission
• Appearances on C-SPAN programs
• Appearances at the Internet Movie Database