Is anyone paying attention? Friday was the deadline for current alders to announce they are not running and here’s how it is shaping up as of about 4:30 on Friday!
The following alders have filed at least some papers to run in the spring:
District 2 – Konkel (only needs nomination papers)
District 3 – Cnare (only filed the income statment)
District 4 – Verveer (only filed the Registration statment)
District 6 – Marsha (only needs to file nomination papers)
District 12 – Rhodes-Conway (All paper work filed)
District 13 – Kerr (only needs nomination papers)
District 14 – Bruer (All paper work filed)
District 16 – Compton (only needs nomimnation papers)
District 17 – Clausius (All paper work filed)
District 18 – Schumacher (All paper work filed)
District 19 – Clear (All paper work filed)
District 20 – Thuy (Only needs nomination papers)
The following alders haven’t filed anything yet. If they fail to file papers, the deadline will be extended for people to file in their districts.
District 1 – Sanborn
District 9 – Skidmore
District 10 – Solomon
District 15 – Palm
The only races so far this spring are as follows:
District 2 – Konkel, Dennis DeNure, Adam Walsh
District 7 – OPEN SEAT Steve King, Aric Vande Werff
District 8 – OPEN SEAT Brian Eagon, Jacob Schmidt, Marf Woulf
The following people may walk into their new seats unchallenged:
District 5 – OPEN SEAT Shiva Bidar-Sielaff
District 11 – OPEN SEAT Chris Schmidt
So far, I’m the only current alder who has a challenge, the only other races will be in open seats. Two people may walk into open seats. Seems very, very, very quiet this spring – a bad sign for local democracy. Some might try to spin it as people are happy with local government, somehow, I just don’t think that is the case.
