Tag: Lee Holloway

This is completely unsurprising… A little more than a month ago, three County Board members held a well-attended press conference to explain why they were trying to oust Chairwoman Marina Dimitrijevic as their leader. This week the threesome found out the price they would pay for their failed coup. As part…

In his last few weeks on the job, retiring Milwaukee County Board Chairman Lee Holloway certainly hasn’t stopped being a bully. First he fired the only legislative staffer for Supervisor Nikiya Harris after said staffer supposedly disrespected Holloway. While Holloway has yet to articulate a specific reason behind his termination…

It’s just too bad the County Board had the votes to override a veto, because I would have liked to have seen this plan scrapped. Abele had previously returned the preliminary plan unsigned. In his message to the board about the final plan, he wrote, “The intent of the process…

On Wednesday Milwaukee County Supervisor Joe Rice filed a motion in court seeking an injunction to stop the County Board from giving final approval to a redistricting plan that eliminates Rice’s North Shore district. In seeking the injunction, Rice has alleged the County Board violated the state open meetings law…

I can’t wait to see how the usual suspects on the right justify this… For years, LaMonte Harris was the right-hand man to Milwaukee Ald. Michael McGee Jr., rallying support and proclaiming the innocence of the now-incarcerated politician. Harris, who has also spent time behind bars, says he lent a…

Must be nice to be a millionaire… Philanthropist Chris Abele added $450,000 from his own pocket to his campaign for the Milwaukee County executive race, raising his self-funded total to $700,000, according to Abele’s campaign report filed Wednesday. He also picked up more than $90,000 in outside donations, for a…

\"We don’t pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes…,\" Leona Helmsley This story from JSOnline is interesting, and it follows this related story from the 2010 election. Chris Abele, the millionaire running for Milwaukee County executive, has made a name for himself over the past 15 years by giving…

Yesterday acting Milwaukee County Executive Lee Holloway appointed former acting Milwaukee Mayor Marvin Pratt to serve as interim Milwaukee County Executive until after the April 5 election. Holloway said Pratt would carry out County Board policy, and Pratt suggested his role would be more a caretaker than someone who would…

Last week Friday the five candidates running for Milwaukee County Executive came together at Eckstein Hall, home of the Marquette University Law School, for a candidate forum co-sponsored by the Law School and the Milwaukee Press Club. Thanks to Milwaukee Public Television, here’s video of the forum: Having watched the…

Another day, another story about the kind of person Lee Holloway really is… On Thursday, a security guard employed by the county exec was arrested and booked into the county jail on two counts of endangering safety with a dangerous weapon, disorderly conduct and bail-jumping. A charging conference is scheduled…