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What can bring together the Milwaukee mayor, the DA, and virtually the entire City legislative caucus in a divisive election season?
Pedro Colón running for City Attorney. Reads the Shepard-Express endorsement:
(Mu)ltiple conversations with Colon, and really listening to his plans for the office, have won us over. We enthusiastically support state Rep. Pedro Colon for city attorney on April 1. We also understand why District Attorney John Chisholm strongly supports Colon. ...
Colon’s ideas would take the city attorney’s office into the 21st century by working with other levels of government, especially on reducing crime and nuisance properties; training police officers to respect the rights of citizens while making arrests; fighting to fix the school choice funding flaw, which currently penalizes city taxpayers; finding fair solutions for residents who have had their driver’s licenses taken away; and personally advocating for the city when important lawsuits arise.
Unity and action are playing well this election season, though a small number of naysayers still insist the key to better public policy resides in sitting on their duffs.
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Count me out.
He's based his entire campaign -- like a would-be Supreme Court justice I know -- on the false premise that a big part of the job is fighting crime.
Maybe that's because he has no experience, background or training in municipal law -- which is what the job actually IS about.
If Colon wins, it will be because he successfully convinced the Democrats that this is a partisan race, and fooled people about what the job entails. Colon could win, because incumbent Grant Langley has run an anemic campaign.
If that happpens, we'll see what on the job training really looks like, unless the ambitious Colon goes directly to his campaign for whatever office is next on his agenda.