The Milwaukee County Exec. race is down to the final two candidates. Jeff Stone and Chris Abele.
Jeff Stone is a Republican and Chris Abele is a Democrat.
Truth be told I'm not a fan of either one of these guys, Abele is the son of a Billionaire and head of his families philanthropic organization. Seriously this guy has never held a a real job in his life and now he wants to be County Exec.
Stone is a career politician who does not have a leadership bone in his body. From what I have seen so far he follows whatever hes been told to do by the party. That could just be my early take since he was pretty mch laying low the whole campaign.
Abele spent something like 700 thousand dollars just to get through the primary. Stone spent I think it was a buck fifty he found in the cup holder of his car and still ran away with the primary.
Stone is in the mold of former Exec. ad current Gov. Scott Walker, fiscally conservative dead sent against taxes. If he shows some backbone in this Liberal city we may actually progress.
I dont know what the hell Abele thinks hes doing, if not for cash this guy wouldnt have had a chance in the race. Then again he was running against Holloway who biggest accomplishment lately was managing to get multiple court dates for his slum housing and having one of his security guards attack one of his tenants. Ieshuh Griffin a paralegal was running with no money, no platform, no ideas and no votes to go along with her candidacy I think she managed a total of 400 votes in the primary. Former Sen. Jim Sullivan ran but he was on fewer peoples radar than Kirstie Alleys career.
So I guess no big surprise Abele advanced especially since with all of the money he was spending he was on TV more often than the Egyptian protests.
If I had to pick one Stone is the easy choice, hes got proven Conservative credentials and not a new idea in his head at least not that I have heard so far. The other side of the coin though is Abele who hasnt done anything his whole life except give away his parents money. I did hear he might know where to score the primo weed so that might sway a few votes.
Be happy though we could have had a slum lord who thought his interm appointment to the County Exec. spot was akin to being named Supreme Ruler of the Universe, complete with a 34 person transition committe for a job he didnt even have and multiple press conferences for a temp job he held for 30 days or Ieshuh Griffin who famously tried to have the synopsis on her ballot read "Not The White-man's Bitch"
Id like to see a viable Indy or Libertarian run here....no really I mean it
Ieshuh received far more than 400 votes. Though she was one of several who did not win, she was the best of the bunch.
ReplyDeleteIeshuh Griffin, finished with less than 2% of the vote.
ReplyDeleteIs that better? That is taken directly from Milwaukee County reported election results. I was half jesting obviously in the blog but she didnt finish with much,in reality less than 2 %. In fact I think she came in dead last out of the 5.