On June 22, Wisconsin Assemblymember Bob Ziegelbauer announced he was leaving the Democratic Party and becoming an independent.  He is running for re-election this year as an independent.  He will have a Republican and a Democratic opponent this November.

Ziegelbauer was first elected to the legislature in 1992.  He was re-elected unanimously in November 2006.  He left the Democratic Party after the Assembly Democratic leadership removed him from being Chair of the Ways and Means Committee.