Aldermanic races

The filing deadline was Tuesday and the lineups are set for the Madison aldermanic races.  From The Capital Times, Election Matters: Mayor won't back Konkel foe, and the Wisconsin State Journal, Mayor tried to recruit candidates to oppose Konkel on City Council.

Besides the Konkel story, there are very few notes of interest  pertaining to the filings:

• Larry Palm will face Will Sandstrom, the turbulent and often confused candidate who made his mark in the 2003 mayoral primary. Palm gets my sympathy, but the race will bring a smile to more than one face.
• Brenda Konkel with her four challengers will have to rate behind Palm in the most interesting opponents category. She gets perennial candidate Dennis Denure who actually comes up with some decent proposals (The Museum Mile).
• Districts 10  5* and 11 will compete for the most interesting traditional competitive campaigns.

The political landscape will not change much after the April elections unless the campus districts produce alders who are in lock step with Progressive Dane or only mildly supportive.

*Erik - thanks for the comment. My mind is frozen to the time when a portion of the district was the 10th.

Comments

[Erik Paulson]

Do you mean D5, and not D10? D10 is Brian Solomon, who has no challengers.

D5 is Robbie Webber's seat, who is retiring and has two challengers.