Tingstad pulls off election shocker

By RALPH ANSAMI

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HURLEY — Iron County voters elected a District Attorney Tuesday who doesn’t have a license to practice law in the state. In fact, he doesn’t live in Wisconsin.

After the dust settled around midnight in a real shocker, Matt Tingstad, 40, of Bessemer, had defeated Tony Stella Jr., 57, of Kimball, 1,709 to 1,696.

Town of Mercer votes didn’t come in until around 11 p.m. and they were initially incorrect, as both Stella and Tingstad had 100 votes too many.

A total of 1,008 votes were cast in Mercer and the original numbers emailed to the county clerk’s off...