“People are expecting me to go down there and act like a nut… But I think totally outside the box. Everything I do is unconventional to people who are within that box. But for people who think outside the box, they’re like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s how it should be: creative.’”
Marlene Johnson-Odom
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Mike D’Amato, Mike McGee Jr. for 3rd and 6th District Aldermen
Voters have already spoken in the 3rd District race, and we agree with them. Based on his majority take in the five-way primary race, it looks like Ald. Mike D’Amato will continue to serve as alderman for the newly redistricted 3rd District after the April 6 election…
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March Election Briefs
Acting Mayor Marvin Pratt is facing former Congressman Tom Barrett in the April 6 election for Mayor. Both candidates have drafted a version a “Clean Campaign Pledge.” …
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6th District Aldermanic Race: Marlene Johnson-Odom
A life-long resident of Milwaukee and successor of her first husband, Ben Johnson, to the Sixth District aldermanic council position, Marlene Johnson-Odom has seen much change in the city and has been part of city government for 24 years.
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Journal Sentinel Out of Touch with Milwaukee Neighborhoods, Politics
by George F. Sanders
The recent aldermanic endorsement of every single incumbent by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel indicates how out of touch the big paper is about what is really going on in Milwaukee. Most egregious was its endorsement of the12th Ward incumbent even though terming him “a big disappointment . . . in the hope that he will ascend the learning curve more rapidly in a second term.”