Perhaps the most surprising of all last night’s results – at least to me – came from Milwaukee’s Sixth Aldermanic District, where incumbent Michael McGee fought off eight challengers to garner 32% of the vote in last night’s primary. Finishing a close second was Milele Coggs, setting up a showdown between the two on April 1st. My quote of the night comes from Dorothy Carter, a McGee supporter:
I think he’s a nice person, and I think he’s been railroaded. I don’t think he can do as good of a job in prison. But I think if he’d been a white man, he’d already been out of jail.
That’s the only explanation I can come up with as to why McGee got 32% of the vote from behind bars: folks in his district believe he’s been railroaded and will ultimately be exonerated. Despite his “strong” showing yesterday, I don’t see McGee winning on April 1st, because I see all those folks whose votes were split by the eight challengers to McGee will start to coalesce behind Milele Coggs.
In many respects, Michael McGee is like a bad rash that won’t go away, but hopefully on April 1st the citizens of the Sixth Aldermanic District will finally put some ointment on that rash.
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