Politically, the year 2006 was a hard one for me. Both spring and fall elections went to candidates I did not support. (Exceptions: Lisa Mellone, Jerry Mellone, and Bill Carnell were the only bright spots that year.)
Think of what life would be like now if a different Brookfield Mayor had been elected and an incumbent Wisconsin State Senator was reelected.
Today we would not have a neighborhood with 4 of its homes crushed by pending eminent domain. I would wager we would not be moving fire station #3 either.
We also would have at least one State Senator (Reynolds) with the back bone to oppose UN-Healthy Wisconsin and the horrendously expensive state budget.
But life does go on.
I do wonder how many people still think of Mayor Speaker as a "Nice guy".
P.S. I did not mean to ignore the governor's race! But between the governor's campaign donations and budget, there are not enough hours in the day to address that.
