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April’s elections were mixed for Progressive Dane.
We retained Alders Marsha Rummel, Satya Rhodes-Conway, and Mike Verveer who all ran unopposed.
President Arlene Silveira, who did had an opponent, also retained her seat on the Madison Metropolitan School Board.
Progressive Dane would like to thank Arnold Harris for running in the Town of Cross Plains and seeking our endorsement. He ran a spirited race and came up a little bit short for a seat on the Town Board.
Of course, the closest race, and the one we put the most energy into, was to retain Brenda Konkel on the Madison Common Council. We lost that one, 962 votes to 900.
Notwithstanding Scott Milfred’s genteel gloating in the Wisconsin State Journal about how positivism would now replace conflict, it was Brenda who ran the positive campaign in this race. She concentrated on the issues facing District 2 and the city, offered solutions, and recounted how she’d been working for those solutions in her eight years on the Council.
Her opponent, Alder Bridget Maniaci, took advantage of years of attacks on Brenda, largely by the State Journal. Maniaci had little to say about issues, and in the end was correct in believing that attacking Brenda’s “style” would be enough. May she be a better Alder than her campaign suggested she’d be.
Brenda will not disappear. She’ll have more time, as she said, “to do the things I love to do.” As Executive Director of the Tenant Resource Center, she’ll be busy, as she likes to be.
Progressive Dane, and Madison, owe Brenda Konkel a huge debt of gratitude for her years of unstinting, selfless work in city government.
Posted by prodane at April 26, 2009 09:50 PM
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