February 21, 2008...6:53 am
6th DISTRICT HAS NO SHAME
Ordinarily, I’d say the voters of Milwaukee’s 6th Aldermanic District should be ashamed of themselves, but clearly the people who reside in the upholstered cesspool have no shame.
They did what I predicted they’d do: not only did Junior McGee survive the primary, he was also the leading vote-getter while residing in the Crowbar Hotel and facing multiple state and federal felony charges.
Campaigning from behind bars, a defiant Milwaukee Ald. Michael McGee led eight challengers to survive Tuesday’s primary election.
The first-term incumbent will face attorney Milele Coggs on the April 1 ballot for his north side seat on the Common Council.
The outspoken McGee has rallied support in his largely African-American 6th District while antagonizing the city’s power structure. He survived a recall last year, avoiding a runoff by amassing more votes than his seven challengers combined.
Less than two months later, however, McGee was under arrest, facing charges of shaking down business owners for bribes, of conspiring to have a man beaten and of buying votes in the recall campaign. He is being held without bail, a move that helped solidify support among backers who see him as a martyr.
That’s why this part of Milwaukee is beyond hope. A complete craphole. Here’s a sample of the people who voted for The Alderthug:
Typical of those voters was Dorothy Carter, 76, who said: “I think he’s a nice person, and I think he’s been railroaded. I don’t think he can do as good of a job in prison. But I think if he’d been a white man, he’d already been out of jail.”
Of course, the choice facing voters is either Junior McGee or yet another member of the Coggs Crime Family. Wonderful. A turd sandwich … or a turd sandwich.
There’s some credence to the theory that the McGee Crime Family planted many of the candidates in the primary, much like they did in the recall election last year: namely, to keep the opposition to McGee from uniting behind one candidate.
And now the only candidate they can unify behind is a crony of the McGees.
So in the end, the McGees win either way.
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