Election Day is Tuesday, and intriguing races for mayor, city clerk and South Milwaukee School Board are among the items you’ll see on the ballot.
- Mayor Tom Zepecki, seeking his third term, is being challenged by former Alderman Richard Raduenz, who lost handily to Zepecki in 2008. Learn more in this Journal Sentinel story on the race. Neither candidate has a website, as best I can tell.
- In a race that promises to be tight, Alderman Jim Shelenske is challenging incumbent City Clerk Kathleen Lisowski for her seat. Learn more about Jim at his campaign site at www.shelenske.com. I don’t believe Kathy has a website.
- Another interesting race is for School Board. You’ll recall that Theresa C. Travia was the only declared candidate for two seats after fellow incumbent Kristin Grenier-Drenzek decided not to run for re-election. Three write-in candidates have since declared their intentions to run: Nick Szablewski, Carol Dufek and Joseph Weirich. Want to learn more about this race? Visit www.southmilwaukee.org, Shelenske’s community website. It features questionnaires from all three candidates.
City Treasurer Karen Skowronski, City Attorney Joseph Murphy and Municipal Judge William Fenger are all running unopposed this spring.
Also, don’t forget about the changes to polling places. We’ve reduced the number of places to four, and all 4th District residents will now vote at Rawson Elementary.
I support this change, as it reduces potential confusion among voters, who previously had to know their ward number to know where they should vote.
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