Well, you can’t call South Milwaukee’s 3rd District politically inactive.
Six candidates — including former Alderman Richard Raduenz, former school board member Tom Arend and former Cudahy City Clerk Joseph Bukowski — want to replace Jim Shelenske as the district’s next alderman.
The number of interested candidates is a bit surprising to me given that this is the same district that fielded no competition for Jim or Lisa Pieper in the 2009 general election.
In fact, three of the city’s four districts had no competition for the incumbents last year. I was part of the only contested race.
You can see the full Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story here.
The City Council will interview the six candidates, all men, at a special meeting starting at 5:30 p.m. Monday. The chosen candidate will then serve out the remainder of Jim’s term, meaning he will be up for re-election next April.
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