Cheryl Hancock

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  www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2008/10/15/news/00lead - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/15/2008    Last Visited: 10/15/2008  

  Huebsch and Hancock squared off in a debate at the University of Wisconsin-
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  But Hancock played well to the room of mostly college students, many of whom scoffed at Huebsch's support of nuclear power and concealed carry firearms legislation.
  
  Hancock immediately went on the offensive with the
  
  14- year incumbent, who she attempted to paint as someone who puts party and politics above people.
  
  "He has been more concerned about the needs of special-interest groups than the needs of the voters," she said.
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  Hancock, the executive director of American Red Cross Scenic Bluffs Chapter, favored restructuring the state's K-12 education funding formula, arguing the current revenue limits leave districts strapped for cash in trying to meet rising personnel and health care costs.
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  wilywom wrote on Oct 15, 2008 9:24 AM:" With great glee, I will vote for Cheryl Hancock on election day.

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  Published on: 1/1/2008    Last Visited: 7/20/2008  

  Hancock launches Assembly run on platform of change
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  In talking with people over the past year about the possibility of running for state Assembly, Cheryl Hancock heard one thing over and over: the political atmosphere in Madison is poisonous, and it needs to change.
  
  "I was struck by the frustration at the tone in Madison, the seeming unwillingness to cross over the aisle to find common ground and the blocking of bills from even being heard and debated," Hancock said May 29 in announcing she will run as a Democrat against longtime Republican Rep.
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  Hancock said she would take a different approach.
  
  "My No. 1 job wouldn't be preserving my job," she said."My No. 1 job would be getting the people's work done."
  
  Although Huebsch presided over the Assembly as speaker last year during an interminable budget stalemate, Hancock hesitated to lay the whole blame for the divisive tone in Madison at Huebsch's feet.
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  "Is he responsible for it himself, no, but he is the leader of the Assembly," said Hancock, who was first elected to the Holmen School Board in 1996.She has served as board president since 2005, and she also serves as executive director of the Scenic Bluffs Chapter of the American Red Cross.
  
  More of the blame can be placed on Huebsch for bills not coming before the Assembly for a vote, Hancock said.
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  The way it worked out, Hancock said, Holmen and most other La Crosse County school districts lost money because Huebsch refused to bring the bill to the Assembly floor for a vote.
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  Hancock's announced her candidacy three times in one day, first with a press conference at Viking Field in Holmen, a baseball field renovated through a concerted community effort.
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  In her statement, Hancock cited the baseball field as an example of what can be done by working together.She also cited family members and community members as inspirational examples of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.Some of the inspirations she cited included volunteer extraordinaire Lloyd Dresen, former Onalaska Town Chairman Dave Paudler, Holmen school Superintendent Fred Frick and former state Rep.Virgil Roberts, who lives about the distance of a Barry Bonds home run away from where Hancock was speaking.
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  Hancock, who graduated from Cashton High School, also made her announcement in Melvina, where she grew up and where her parents had a small supper club, Running's Club.Melvina is part of a small portion of western Monroe County that is included in the 94th Assembly District.
  
  And Hancock made it again at the Mulder Health Care Facility in West Salem, where her mother, Lucille Running, has been getting care for at least six weeks.
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  "That was for my mother," said Hancock, who has two grown children, Brian and Jessica, with her husband, Victor.
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  "Money can buy you lots of ads, lots of brochures, lots of things, but for me it goes back to ordinary people getting out there and doing the work," Hancock said."I don't even presume to think I'm going to be able to raise more money than he will. ...My treasury is going to be my people."
  
  She pointed to her weekend of doorknocking as an example.Hancock said she and a small band of volunteers knocked on doors over the weekend and collected well over the 200 signatures required to get on the ballot as an assembly candidate.
  
  Hancock said she knows there have been concerns expressed about her running for office while running the Red Cross chapter.One thing she has done is to turn the chapter's spokesperson role over to Jeneen Ablan, who chairs the chapter's board of directors.
  
  By doing that, Hancock will avoid any appearance of using her position to get extra positive press during the campaign.
  
  "It's important that I keep the campaign separate from my Red Cross work," she said.
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  Cheryl Hancock
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  Cheryl Hancock's candidacy statement

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  Published on: 1/1/2008    Last Visited: 4/3/2008  

  Cheryl Hancock of Holmen has filed papers with the state to run for the 94th District state Assembly seat against state Rep.
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  Hancock, a Democrat, is the president of the Holmen School Board and executive director of the Scenic Bluffs Chapter of the American Red Cross.
  
  Hancock said she has not officially decided whether to run, but filed papers with the Wisconsin State Elections Board to form a campaign committee because people have approached her about challenging Huebsch.
  
  "I'm not ready to announce," Hancock said Friday in a phone interview from Baltimore, Md., where her Red Cross chapter is receiving an award.She said she's focusing on the search for a new Holmen schools superintendent, getting re-elected to the school board Tuesday and family matters.
  
  Hancock said she'll become a grandmother in April and decide after that whether to run.

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  Published on: 10/30/2008    Last Visited: 10/30/2008  

  Johnson and Kapanke, as well as 94th District Assembly candidate Cheryl Hancock and 95th District Assembly candidate Jennifer Shilling, who is running unopposed, participated in an afternoon forum sponsored by the La Crosse County Poverty Task Force and the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families.
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  The three other hopefuls agreed with Hancock, president of the Holmen School Board, that education is the best hope for pulling people out of poverty. Hancock is running against incumbent Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch.
  
  "Education is the great equalizer," Hancock said more than once, with Shilling joining her in advocating major rebuilding.

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  Published on: 1/1/2008    Last Visited: 10/27/2008  

  It will feature incumbent Mike Huebsch, R-West Salem, and challenger Cheryl Hancock, D-Holmen.
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  Hancock, a 12-year member of the Holmen School Board, is the executive director of American Red Cross Scenic Bluffs Chapter. .

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  Hancock takes leave from Red Cross to campaign
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  American Red Cross Scenic Bluffs Chapter Director Cheryl Hancock will begin a leave of absence Monday to focus on her campaign for the 94th Wisconsin Assembly seat.
  
  Hancock, a Democrat from Holmen, is challenging Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch, R-West Salem, on the Nov. 4 ballot.
  
  Red Cross officials announced the formal leave today, assuring her absence wouldn't result in any interruption of services.
  
  "Cheryl has developed a strong team at the chapter and during this time the board is ready to work with the staff to continue to provide the services needed by residents in our chapter's delivery area," according to a press release.

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  Published on: 9/16/2007    Last Visited: 9/16/2007  

  The American Red Cross has given nearly $1 million to flood victims in western Wisconsin and Minnesota, according to Cheryl Hancock, director of the Scenic Bluffs Chapter.
  
  It has taken a national effort to help people in the 11 Wisconsin and Minnesota counties affected by last month's floods, Hancock said.
  
  The Red Cross has given flood victims more than $954,000 in direct support, she said.It has served 56,000 meals and distributed 125,000 snacks and bottles of water.
  
  To help with the cleanup, Red Cross workers gave out 661 comfort kits, nearly 6,000 cleanup kits, and more than 28,000 items such as shovels, rubber gloves and boots.
  
  Red Cross teams that include a driver, case worker and mental health specialist have visited 3,000 destroyed or damaged homes, Hancock said, and they are still meeting with people to see what kind of help they need.
  
  "It's not just money we're out there delivering, and a lot of people need more than just money," Hancock said."It's really getting a kind word, putting an arm around them and giving them comfort so they know theyre not alone and that many of their friends and neighbors are experiencing the same thing."
  
  Hancock spoke about Red Cross efforts Friday after receiving a $10,000 donation from Xcel Energy.

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  Published on: 7/9/2008    Last Visited: 7/13/2008  

  Cheryl Hancock, Holmen (D)

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  Published on: 9/11/2008    Last Visited: 9/11/2008  

  Jennifer Shilling, D-La Crosse, and Cheryl Hancock, Holmen School Board president and the Democratic candidate for District 94 state Assembly seat.

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  www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2008/06/14/news/01fund - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/14/2008    Last Visited: 6/14/2008  

  A total of ,91,316 had been dropped off by the time collection sites closed at 6 p.m. at the La Crosse Center and Nelson Agri-Center in Viroqua, said Cheryl Hancock, executive director of the Red Cross Scenic Bluffs Chapter.
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  This total also does not include some credit card payments and checks dropped off at the local Red Cross office, said Hancock.

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