Cavalier Johnson Is First African American Elected Mayor of Milwaukee:

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has declared Acting Mayor Cavalier Johnson as the first African American Elected Mayor of Milwaukee by 68% to 32% with 97 precincts reporting. Cavalier Johnson made history Tuesday — and brought a new generation to political power at City Hall — becoming the first African American…

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Bob Donovan Should Just Simply Withdraw From The Milwaukee Mayoral Election:

Why??? Because of this article: Bob Donovan says he would probably move back to Greenfield if he loses the Milwaukee mayoral race. This is behind a fire wall so you might not be able to get at it…but here’s the gist. Former Ald. Bob Donovan is running to be the…

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Our Most Popular Post Last Week? It’s from 2012 but apropos to the conservative candidate in the Milwaukee Mayoral race!

Wonder what it is? Well Zach wrote it just short of ten years ago: Let’s discuss Bob Donovan’s 1992 citation for disorderly conduct. Normally I’d let sleeping dogs lie but this has pulled phenomenal interest: 953 views last week…550 more than a more current but second most popular item…so some…

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Bob Donovan’s Repeat Attempt To Smear Cavalier Johnson.

We recently discussed Milwaukee Mayoral Candidate Bob Donovan’s attempt to smear Acting Mayor Cavalier Johnson on social media…a social media thread that his campaign apparently deleted after thinking about it a bit more. But apparently the former alderman isn’t one to easily give up on a favorite line of disinformation….

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Wait, wait, wait. Milwaukee Mayoral Candidate Bob Donovan Is Campaigning In…West Allis?

I hope he doesn’t think that West Allis is part of Milwaukee…there are a lot of West Allis residents who would take umbrage with that…but given some of his other miscues, I wouldn’t be totally surprised. But yes, on Sunday, Milwaukee Mayoral candidate Bob Donovan made an obvious campaign appearance…

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Bob Donovan’s Attempt To Smear Cavalier Johnson

Now the social media truism, if there aren’t pictures it didn’t happen. Well there aren’t any pictures…my bad. But it did happen but because I don’t have screen grabs here I will do my best to paraphrase the event from memory. SO…most of our regulars know that former Alderman Bob…

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A Map of the North Shore Districts adjacent to Milwaukee

Instead of breaking up MPS, let’s merge!

Dear Senator Alberta Darling, It’s good to hear from you. I was getting worried; it’s been a couple of election cycles since you’ve popped up with any anti-Milwaukee nonsense (I don’t think I have written you since 2016!), but here you are, just in time to distract the GOP base…

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So Just How Conservative Is Milwaukee Mayoral Candidate Bob Donovan?

Conservative. This has always been an adjective added to former Milwaukee Alderman Bob Donovan’s name in any media discussing his time on the Common Council or his attempts to run for Mayor of Milwaukee. And now with no incumbent in the race to replace former Mayor Tom Barrett, Bob Donovan…

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Eat your Heart Out, Milwaukee

Politico is reporting that India Walton, an unabashed socialist, is poised to become mayor of Buffalo after upsetting four term incumbent Mayor Byron Brown in last night’s Democratic primary. Politico notes that there hasn’t been a socialist mayor of a major American city since Milwaukee’s Frank Zeidler left office in…

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So Who Is The Milwaukee Chief Of Police?

From Daniel Bice’s year end winners and losers article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: And does anybody know who the police chief is right now? Certainly not the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission, which we can all agree doesn’t have a clue. Too bad there’s not an experienced hand at City…

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