It’s minor, but revealing. The Waukesha Freeman reported today on an exchange between Waukesha Alderman Duane Paulson and Waukesha Mayor Jeff Scrima. In the e-mail exchange, Scrima told Paulson that he publicly released a letter to Waukesha Water Utility General Manager Dan Duchniak after an open records request by the Waukesha Freeman.
However, in [...]

Publication: Waukesha Freeman (Conley);
Date: Apr 8, 2010;
Section: Opinion;
Page: 10A

Winds of change sweep through City Hall
Several factors worked against Nelson
(James Wigderson is a blogger publishing at http://www.wigderson.com and a Waukesha resident. His column runs Thursdays in The Freeman.) (Editor’s note: Regarding the alleged hanging up on a reporter, Scrima has claimed the disconnection was involuntary due [...]

For the first time in twenty years, I may be voting for a Democrat. I’m hoping it will be another twenty years before I have to make such an awful choice again.
If you’re looking for a prediction, I think Jeff Scrima will win. I think the anti-Democratic, anti-incumbent mood, coupled with a general tiredness [...]

Or how about this whopper: Scrima announced Tuesday night that he would work with the city attorney to prevent any more sex offenders from moving into the city.

I whispered to state Rep. Bill Kramer sitting in front of me, “Well, your job is done.”

If a mayor and the city attorney could stop sex offenders from moving into Waukesha, it would have happened by now. Cities are able to impose reasonable restrictions (as Waukesha has) but ultimately the state and the courts determine in which city the sex offender lives.

Scrima either doesn’t understand the issue, or he’s just trying to shamelessly pander again.

At Monday night’s Waukesha mayoral candidate forum, Jeff Scrima attacked the integrity of the city assessor’s office, claiming they had overvalued the Clarke Hotel, something he learned in a “one-on-one” meeting with Paul Klauck, the City Assessor.
Mayor Larry Nelson was outraged, as the Waukesha Freeman reports,
“I can’t sit here and let my opponent attack our [...]

The nine people and events in 2009 that most shaped Waukesha and Wisconsin.
Wisconsin

Governor Jim Doyle’s announcement that he will not seek re-election.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett getting attacked outside State Fair turns him into a hero.
State Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson wins re-election.
Passage of a state budget built largely upon deferred expenses, raids on segregated [...]

Take heart. If the nomination papers are circulating, spring cannot be too far behind.
Steve Edlund, candidate for Waukesha school board, just stopped by the house for a couple of signatures on his nomination papers. He said he was working the Phoenix Hts neighborhood. He has a pretty simple campaign theme – the school board [...]

Jeff at Five Points has been a proponent of building the stadium at Frame Park, and offers what I think is some thoughtful commentary right before the vote. He’s still wrong on most points, but one point is especially worth examining.
Opponents in the Soundoff have used this controversy to attack Mayor Nelson’s support for [...]