Tom Schellinger, a Waukesha County supervisor and former Brookfield alderman, has filed to run against Paul Farrow for the 98th Assembly seat in the Republican side of the primary ticket. Democrat Victor Weers has also filed. Here’s the final report from the elections board. Rich Zipperer and Tim Dietrich are the only two to file [...]
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Schellinger enters 98th Assembly race
July 16th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Brookfield · Waukesha County · Wisconsin
About Brookfield’s mayoral race
January 5th, 2010 · 26 Comments
(We’re also going to talk about the aldermanic races and Waukesha County supervisors spots.) Today’s the filing deadline, so the races are pretty much set. We’re at four: Jeff Speaker, incumbent Steve Ponto – current alderman, former Common Council President David (Dave) Marcello – former alderman, former school board member Tom Schellinger – current county [...]
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Brookfield’s Drinan headed for greener pastures
December 30th, 2009 · No Comments
Don’t let it be lost on you that a position is open at City Hall that should remain EMPTY and be removed from the heirarchy. Anyway… The City of Brookfield’s Economic Development Coordinator Patrick Drinan is off to head Sheboygan County’s Economic Development effort according to the Sheboygan Press. Patrick Drinan, 38, who has been [...]
Tags: Brookfield · local gov
Mutt and Jeff greet taxpayers at Brookfield City Hall
December 29th, 2009 · 26 Comments
Jeff Speaker has company this year glad-handing taxpayers who line up to pay their bill. David (Dave) Marcello is joining him for the annual love-your-politician handshake. You have to wonder how that’s playing out. Here’s my interpretation: But wait! There’s more. (I haven’t mentioned it in a couple of weeks or so, but I LOVE [...]
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The ever-changing ballot
December 29th, 2009 · 3 Comments
It looks like Bielinski, the most unknown of the Brookfield mayoral candidates, is withdrawing from the race. From the MJS: In Brookfield, the former police officer-turned-Mayor Jeff Speaker is facing four possible challengers so far in his bid for a third, four-year term – the most competition since the last incumbent mayor, Kate Bloomberg, did [...]
Tags: Brookfield · Elmbrook · local gov
Keeping up with VK in Florida
December 28th, 2009 · No Comments
Things aren’t good as this December 5th article from the Naple News explains: While it’s a tough time for developers, V.K. Development, based in Wisconsin, is not in foreclosure at Treviso Bay and it’s in near constant talks with its lenders, said Sanjay Kuttemperoor, the company’s president. “Everyone says it’s going to be a slow [...]
Tags: Brookfield · development
Signs of the times
December 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments
Dave (David) Marcello and Mayor Jeff Speaker have been busy plopping signs all over Brookfield just in time to ruin Christmas. I’m personally amused to think it’s someone besides me digging into the frozen ground. For all you other guys, don’t be dissuaded. Most of the places I’ve seen with their signs will let you [...]
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A few predictions
December 18th, 2009 · 21 Comments
For those of you just stopping by, I’ll mention this blog goes dormant on January 12. There are a few things to get to before that day! One is a few predictions. I won’t be online when it all comes to pass, but I thought I’d give it a go anyway. — I believe the [...]
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pontoformayor.com is up and running
December 16th, 2009 · 9 Comments
You can check it out here. No schellingerformayor.com yet. No word of a Speaker version, either. Of course, marcelloformayor.com has been around for a few weeks. Quick trivia question. Just who in the world started this “formayor.com” phenomenon? Imagine that kind of leadership in a community four years ago instead of just getting around to [...]
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And so it begins…
December 14th, 2009 · No Comments
The site just took a hit for “Dave Marcello liberal.” I see the rumors have started already. No, I can’t say Dave Marcello is a liberal. He’s not necessarily my favorite brand of conservative, but he’s not a liberal. (PS Jeff. Try something else this time. Your real opponent is Ponto. What can you make [...]
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