July 8th, 2009
AND THE WINNING COUPLE IN THE ONLINE VOTING IS: Laura Gibbs and Joe Sosnowski with 62 percent of the 762,405 votes cast. Congrats, and we’ll see you Saturday night at the Burpee for the real competition, where audience applause determines the winner.
- Kimberly Nelson (WQRF-39 anchor) and Dave Syverson, state senator 251,742 33% of all votes
- Alice Barr, WIFR-23 reporter, and Joe Bruscato, Winnebago County states attorney 40,404 5% of all votes
- Laura Gibbs, 13 News Today anchor, and Joe Sosnowski, Rockford first-ward alderman 470,259 62% of all votes
Total Votes: 762,405
(The following ran in this space before voting ended at 5 p.m. July 16.)
Vote for your favorite couple in Dancing with the TV Divas, Rockford’s Original Charity Dance Contest.
The competition is part of the Bone Soiree — A Continental Evening at Burpee July 18. The event is a fundraiser at and for the Burpee Museum of Natural History. Online voting is just for fun.
See Sen. Dave Syverson/Kimberly Nelson dance.
See State’s Attorney Joe Bruscato/Alice Barr dance.
See Alderman Joe Sosnowski/Laura Gibbs dance.
January 27th, 2009
Of those responding to a question at AOL.com about Obama picking an Arab network to air his first format TV interview, 52 percent said they were bothered by that vs. 36 percent who said it was fine by them.
July 15th, 2008
The vote is now closed, as of 5 p.m. Friday, July 18.
And the winner is ….
Kimberly Nelson, WQRF-39 anchor and WTVO-17 reporter, and State Senator Dave Syverson, R-Rockford, are the winners of the just-for-fun “Dancing with the TV Divas” vote at the Ask Geo blog at http://blogs.e-rockford.com/askgeo/.
They captured 49 percent (23,528) of the 48,337 votes cast since the poll opened Tuesday. Voting stopped at 5 p.m. Friday.
Alice Barr, WIFR-23 reporter, and Rockford Ald. Doug Mark, R-3, finished second of the three couples, with 35 percent, or 16,918 votes. Laura Gibbs, WREX-13 reporter, and State Rep. Dave Winters, finished third, with 16 percent, or 7,891 votes.
The number of votes cast was a record or near-record for any rrstar.com poll.
While this vote was just for the heck of it, the real winners will be chosen by audience applause Saturday at the dance competition at the Bone Soiree fundraiser at the Burpee Museum of Natural History, 737 N. Main St., Rockford. Tickets at $90 are available in advance and at the door. For more information, call 815-965-3433 or go to burpee.org.
Check out below a rehearsal video of the three teams.
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For more information about the Burpee fundraiser and other dancing in the Rockford area, read this column.
