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.
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EVERYBODY HERE IN CALIFORNIA IS VOTING FOR YOU.
LOVE DAD
I\’m not so sure these votes are accurate – because in a really short time, Kim Nelson’s votes took a huge jump. But the real competition is who’s the best dancer – it will be Laura Gibbs all the way!! Best morning show anchor in Rockford!!! Good luck Laura
HI KIM,
I SEE ALL OUR RELATIVES IN SWEDEN ARE VOTING FOR YOU.
LOVE DAD
Love you and miss you kimbo. i wish you and Sen. Syverson the best of luck. hope to see the actual performance.
This is silly. Who the heck is Laura Gibbs? How can she have nearly 40,000 fans when I’ve never even heard of her? The other votes seem crazy high, too, but I’ve at least heard their names before.
Alice Barr was great to watch. She was graceful and entertaining and Joe Bruscato was definitely the better Joe. I think they deserve to win. Also, I believe the other contestants are cheating with their votes.
Kimberly you were awesome- are you engaged yet? Some hot man should swoop you up and marry you
So you\’re honestly telling me the number of votes for this contest exceeds the population of Rockford? hahaha
Gibbs and Nelson must have bots voting for them.
You go girl!
Karen’s friend from Byron.
You go Joe.
Alice you were robbed last year but with a new partner and some higher heels nothing can stop you in 2009.
With 1667 votes per hour, I would say WREX has some sort of automation voting.
Sorry it took so long to get these comments posted. I was on vacation and our system didn’t allow these to be posted until I got through to them today. Geo
you go Alice…….
Alice bar, the others must be cheating..NO WAY they are beating you by that much…this is rigged
In response to the ‘bot’ comment, I know I voted for Kim as many times as my arms could handle. Her family, friends and co-workers all worked together on the 14th to try and catch up to Laura and did! But even with that many people, we could only tabulate about 50,000 votes in an entire day. Imagine all of our surprise when Laura added 200,000 votes from 12am-6am. How is that even possible?
Then it dawned on me: Doesn’t Channel 13 have a partnership with WREX? How could you POSSIBLY get that many votes in? Maybe a webmaster manually changed the totals? I find it funny how her voting stopped whenever she was ahead, as if something triggered the votes the minute anyone else got close. It isn’t possible to tabulate 200,000 votes just on effort alone, not in only 6 hours. Kim may have had lots of people voting for her and often, but at least it was clean.
Edit: I meant Channel 13 having a partnership with the Register Star.
I think Joe Sosnowski looks like a fool! Shouldn’t he be trying to fix all the problems he’s created for our city like the Multi Million dollar deficits year after year since he rolled into town? Shouldn’t he be trying to get the billboards back in Rockford that cost our city millions in revenue loss. I think it’s silly that he’s dancing. Maybe he should leave Rockford and take up professional dancing. We all know how Joe Sosnowski dances around the facts and reality!
Thank you,
Brian Jenkins Leggero