- Dan Cody of Left on the Lake is reporting Milwaukee County Supervisor Chris Larson may be close to making a decision to challenge incumbent State Sen. Jeff Plale:
Rumors are flying that Milwaukee County Supervisor Chris Larson could be running against incumbent State Senator Jeff Plale in the upcoming election.
Sen. Plale is no stranger to challengers – he faced one in 2008 before the candidate dropped out – from within the Democratic party. The 7th Senate district runs from Oak Creek on the south to near UWM on the north. Although he’s only been on the Milwaukee County Board for two years, Supervisor Larson has made a name for himself rather quickly as a progressive and energetic elected official and has quite a few supporters in and around Milwaukee County.
Personally, I’d like to see a serious challenge to Sen. Plale, and having had a chance to meet and interact with Supervisor Larson, I think he’d do a great job of representing the 7th district in the State Senate.
- In other news, State Rep. Pedro Colon announced today he won’t seek reelection to the State Assembly after six terms:
After serving the people of City of Milwaukee’s south side for 6 terms in the Wisconsin Assembly, I have decided not to seek reelection. I will dedicate more time to my legal career and my family. I was most gratified to be a voice for the working people in the City of Milwaukee and in particular for Latino students that continue to endure a lack of proper funding, particularly in the City of Milwaukee, but also around the State.
It’ll be interesting to see who decides to step into the race to succeed Rep. Colon, and I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see at least one City of Milwaukee alderman and at least one County Supervisor step into the race.
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