It took 24 rounds of voting, but Patricia Jursik’s bid to become the next Milwaukee County Board chairperson fell short on Monday.
But the chairmanship will stay in the South Shore, with 30-year-old Bay View Supervisor Marina Dimitrijevic winning the post.
Check out the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story here. From it:
She replaces outgoing board Chairman Lee Holloway, who retired after 20 years on the board.
She was locked in a three-way tie during earlier rounds of balloting, in which Dimitrijevic, Supervisor Theo Lipscomb Sr. and Supervisor Patricia Jursik each had five votes. The deadlock broke after Supervisor Willie Johnson Jr. ended his bid for chairman and switched his support for Dimitrijevic.
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I fear this will not be good for the County’s taxpayers as Dimitrijevic is an ultra-liberal. She hasn’t met a government program she didn’t want to spend other people’s money on.
I look forward to seeing if she can represent the entire county’s interests. I recall that during the recent battle over county-wide EMS funding, she proposed reallocating money away from the suburbs and increasing the amount that the City of Milwaukee received.