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Delavan attorney seeks Assembly seat

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Dan Necci

DELAVAN — Dan Necci believes state lawmakers have a responsibility to help the state and its residents grow and prosper.

“We’re facing some hard times right now,” he said. “We’ve lost 167,000 jobs. We’ve got 8.7 percent unemployment. We have fewer businesses than we did only a few years ago, while surrounding states and the nation as a whole have more.”

Necci, 30, an attorney who lives in Delavan and recently opened his own practice in Lake Geneva, is running for the 32nd Assembly District seat held by Rep. Tom Lothian, R-Williams Bay.

Necci is running as a Republican.

Lothian has not yet filed a declaration of candidacy for the race, according to the state Government Accountability Board.

Doug Harrod, 64, a health teacher at Badger High School in Lake Geneva, also has filed a declaration. He ran as a Democrat for the seat in 2008.

Necci said he is running not because he is disappointed with the incumbent but because he is upset that the governor and the Legislature have their priorities wrong.

“The No. 1 issues facing this state is the economy and how jobs and taxes play into that,” he said.

Necci said the first step state government must take to mend the economy is to stop spending money on expensive pet projects and interests.

“We have to stop the bleeding,” he said.

He said the Clean Jobs Act might create “green” jobs but also will cost the state tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs as businesses struggle with rising energy bills. He said a proposed high-speed rail system would be a perpetual expense in the state budget and could raise taxes.

Necci believes, too, that state government must do more to attract new businesses and support existing businesses, including freeing them from oppressive taxation and regulation.