Help Dick Skare WIN!
1st District Wisconsin Assembly
Biography
I am running on my 30-year record of service to the 1st District that exemplifies my willingness to work hard, keep the promises I make and be fiscally responsible. People know me as a no nonsense kind of person. I am dismayed by our legislators who have forgotten that these are the traditional Wisconsin values we all cherish.
My campaign theme is “No Nonsense Leadership.” My first priority will be to represent you in Madison, not special interests. My wife Carol and I built our family business by providing uncompromising, dependable service to our customers and a quality work environment for our employees. With your support I will do the same for our District. We must do a better job of bringing people together to get things done. The issues before the Assembly are too important to continue the kind of nonsense we've been hearing from Madison since 1992..
All my life I’ve worked to bring people together to solve the problems they face. This is no time for ineffective, do-nothing, put-the-party-before-everything-else, business-as-usual politics. You deserve a legislator who will work for you, not for the special interests.
We’ve been debating health care reform for 20 years but many people are still more worried about losing their health insurance than losing their job. We’re forced to fund essential services for our schools and students by raiding transportation funds. The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we farm are all under attack… Too many familys are facing uncertain futures.
I firmly believe that, working together, using good common sense, we can restore our government’s effectiveness and get our state moving forward once again. Groups likethe National Governors' Association and the Pew Center on the States do not put WIsconsin high on their lists of states doing things right.
Extended biography:
This is some of what I have accomplished while living and working in the First District:
Professional Experience
Owner of The Cookery Restaurant in Fish Creek, WI 1977 - present
Community Involvement
Sunshine House: Sturgeon Bay, WI (A sheltered workshop for developmentally disabled citizens.) Board Member, 2004 – Present - Chairman, 2006 - Present
Town Board: Town of Gibraltar, WI
Supervisor, 1989 – 1997, 2003 – Present, Town Chairman, 1997 – 2001
Door County YMCA: Sturgeon Bay and Fish Creek, WI
Board Member, 1991 – 2004 - Chairman, 1996 – 1998
Door Community Auditorium: Fish Creek, WI
Board Member , 1989 – 1995 - Chairman, 1993 – 1994
Fish Creek Winter Games: Fish Creek, WI
Founding Member/Volunteer, 1986 – 1996
Wisconsin Restaurant Association
Board Member, 1982 – 1986
Baylake Bank: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Regional Advisory Board Member, 1996 – 2000
Fish Creek Sanitary District #1: Fish Creek, WI
Founding Member/First President, 1981 – 1986
Door County Marketing Coalition: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Active Member, 2006 – Present
Door County Visitor Bureau: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Board Member, 2006 – 2008
Door County Tourism Zone Commission: Sister Bay, WI
Commissioner, January 2008 – Appointed to a one year term.
Education
Bachelor of Science degree, Mankato State College: Mankato, MN
(Now Minnesota State University)
Major: Economics through the School of Business Administration
Minors: Mathematics, Political Science
