No surprise here, but Ken Lumpkin is officially running against Jim Kaplan for a seat on the City Council.
It'll be a rematch of the 2008 race that Kaplan won by about 50 votes. There's no love lost between these candidates, who ran two campaigns against each other two years ago. Kaplan won them both, taking Lumpkin's County Board seat by a single vote.
The only other contested race, so far, is Donald Dwyer taking on Dennis Wiser for the City Council's now vacant 10th District seat. Incumbent Kelli Stein is declining to run for re-election. Dwyer and Wiser both applied for the open seat in August when the City Council picked Stein.
With a week to go before the filing deadline for City Council, Aldermen Sandy Weidner, Aron Wisneski, Ron Hart and newcomer Eric Marcus are running uncontested.
Where are all the conservatives? Looks like it's going to be business as usual in this city, again. Taxpayers getting screwed, money continuing to be wasted on stupid unnecessay crap like recycle bins that 90% of the people don't want, no effective effort being spent to curb crime and a continued anti-business atmosphere making it even more impossible to bring some REAL jobs to the city.
ReplyDeleteSomeone PLEASE run against Sandy Weidner! Everyone knows she's still running to Becker for advice and talking to him about everything going on in the city. She needs to go.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't matter who is on the city council. The dumbell city is run by and for the elite corporate few. They run the city like they run the school board. Ignore the masses and provide art, theatre, and good times downtown for the elites.
ReplyDeleteKaplin is a great guy. He should win.
ReplyDeleteYes I too think many on the Council are lap dogs of the Mayor such as Helding, others like Cole are starting to understand that the Mayor and his ten year plan just is business as usual.
Kaplan is a bumbling fool who thinks he is a Pastor instead of a legislator. I watched the lap dogs you talk about kill the Mayor's precious splash pad this year. Who the heck is Cole?
ReplyDeleteKenneth Cole I thinks he's like a NYC fashion guy.
ReplyDeleteTime to vote for the Socialist Party again. We need to usher in the New Age. Distroy all means of capitalism and pay uneducated slakies to sit at home and collect checks of Obama money. Don't ya just love it?
ReplyDeleteVote for the conservatives and pay educated dunderheads to sit on their buts in Waxtrash offices dreaming up ways to spend their loot and keep the little guy down.
ReplyDeleteKaplan and his dirty, underhanded, private parking spaces (city signs) outside his home near Janes School.....Ya, he's a "great guy"....until he got called out, then the signs were taken down by his buddies at DPW ASAP.
ReplyDeleteArgue this, and I will copy and paste the articles from the JT.
Anon 7:54, if you had a brain you'd be dangerous. Get a grip! What do we have now, if it isn't, in your own words, "pay(ing) educated dunderheads to sit on their buts in Waxtrash offices dreaming up ways to spend their loot and keep the little guy down."? Only here they are sitting on the city council. They're spending taxpayer dollars on things that the people of this city don't want to waste money on just so their relatives and friends can pocket your, and everyone else’s, tax dollars. But then, based on almost every response you publish, you're probably in favor of forcing the recycle bins down our throats, wasting over $300,000.00 on a stupid splash pad, continued money losing real estate deals by our pseudo-mayor, and doing nothing to bring REAL businesses to this city.
ReplyDeleteIt’s been stated on this site that your vendetta against Johnson’s is rooted in your inability to perform properly and being fired. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but it is obvious that your continued hate speech about them and your idiotic notion that just because a person is a conservative automatically makes them one of Johnson’s lackeys. Get a life! Or better yet, get out of town.
For all of the loud mouth complaining tht conservatives do around town, they certainly seem to lack the balls when it comes time to actually do something and run for office. Pathetic. All talk and no action.
ReplyDeleteNobody is asking that they quit their day job. City council is part time.
There's just no excuse or explanation.
Conservatives don't exist in Racine. We just have talkatives.
...and name calling pinkos.
ReplyDelete9:19 Conservatives have real jobs that often times include Saturday's, long weekday evening hours and even some Sundays.We are not like liberals who have limited hours, limited type jobs and limited brains.
ReplyDeleteTrust me folks.....you're mayor sucks and is draining your gem of a city. Dickert is the most unqualified, shady, backstabbing mayor you all could of elected! Nice job! Things will only get worse with this baffoon in office! Glad I left when I did!
ReplyDeleteThings are looking petty grim. Time for Dickert to hold another re-election fundraiser.
ReplyDeleteI voted for Dickert and have been disappointed thus far with his performance. The only plus I can give him is at least I can understand what he says rather than his opponent. I can't understand a word that guy says.
ReplyDeleteWhere is all this opposition the city counvil members were going to face? Outside of three bloggers who continually call for expensive recalls and claim the incumbents will be thrown out of office, it looks like the community is satisfiedl If not, every seat would be contested.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe that anyone should be voted to serve on both the City Council and the County Board.
ReplyDeleteShakoor and Kaplan have enough to do on the City Council.
As taxpayers we get double wammied by these two totally out of touch representatives.
I do not live in a district that is up for re-election otherwise I would run. What's everyone elses excuse?
ANON 5:11 is right!
ReplyDeleteWeidner still hangs out with Becker. I am disgusted that NO ONE living in that district is running against her.
Sandy, if you are reading this, thank god I don't live in that district because my campaign would be filled with photographs of you helping Becker work on that Kingston Ave. house months ago. You are sick!! I am quite sure your constituents would be appalled and disgusted if they knew!!!
I hope Kaplin loses too. He needs a wake-up call. He has let it go right to his head; LITERALLY Gods gift to mankind.
ReplyDeleteRacine Insider 2:40 - don't fool yourself into believing that just because an elected official doesn't have opposition that the "community is satisfied".
ReplyDeleteThere are many reasons why a person would not want to run for office, but in no way should anyone assume it is because they are satisfied with the current leadership.
Your attitude Racine Insider, makes me want to vomit. Good thing I didn't have anything to eat before I read your post.
If you don't like who is in office take the step and run for the office. I think if most people who vote went to their government meetings at all levels they would be shocked by some of the behavior and lack of preparation by many elected officials. Many people who are active in their community don't translate into effective elected officials because they don't know how to use the process.
ReplyDeleteSome elected officials who regularly get re-elected actually fall asleep in meetings, others are over heard asking the elected official next to them how they voted and vote the same. Some elected officials have to be regularly reminded to vote because they aren't even paying attention to the discussion. These are the officials that seem to never get a challenge come election day. They understand the process to get elected but when you watch them in meetings you have to ask why they get elected.
The elected officials that get challenges for re-election and beat up in the blogs are the ones who actually talk in meetings, take stands, recommend change and are engaged in the process.
If you look at the records of both these candidates they aren't out in front on issues. Both men are very involved in their community and do good things, but both seem to struggle on how to use their elected office effectively.
Blogging is easy, running for office or being a government official that is hard work. If you think you can do the work run for office there are plenty of seats open right now, some just have people still sleeping in them unless you run.