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Race for Milwaukee Mayor: Johnson, Donovan advance to general election
Acting Mayor Cavalier Johnson and former Alderman Bob Donovan have advanced to the spring general election in the race for Milwaukee's next mayor.
As returns began to roll in the evening of Tuesday, February 15, 2022. Johnson and Donovan were the early leaders. Johnson declared victory before 10 p.m. Tuesday. "With so much of what we are facing, it's racial injustice that's left us in a worse place. Our health care outcomes are worse for Black and brown people. Our educational achievement is worse for Black and brown folks in Milwaukee. Our wages are worse for Black and brown folks here in Milwaukee," Johnson said. "By building a safe, strong prosperous city for all, that's how we make
owner Michael Sampson and community activist Ieshuh Griffin.
Lucas announced Tuesday night he would not run for sheriff again in the fall.
"I think in the Black community, we have to deal with homeownership, entrepreneurship and access to opportunity. If we want to fix public safety, we've got to dig into the root to do it. You're not going to be able to police or mass-incarcerate your way out. You're going to be Acting Mayor Cavalier Johnson and close to the status quo with former Alderman Bob Donovan. the people that you have in the primary," Sen. Taylor said Milwaukee a shining city on "I'm very pleased with the Tuesday night. a hill. It is not racial equity or results tonight. Now the big economic strength, it's pros- challenge comes," Donovan Shortly after 9 p.m., Lucas perity because we include said to WISN-TV 12 at 10 thanked his supporters. everyone. That's the vision, p.m. "We need to move our that's the goal." city forward, and I believe "The people have spoken I'm the guy to get that done." tonight," he said. During a speech Tuesday night, Donovan said he was Also running were State Lucas said he called Johnrunning for mayor for three Sen. Lena Taylor, Alder- son and Donovan to conmajor reasons: safer streets, woman Marina Dimitrijevic, gratulate them, even though better schools and good jobs. Milwaukee County Sher- not all the results were in. iff Earnell Lucas, business
Dimitrijevic sent out a statement late Tuesday saying, in part, "Milwaukee’s never elected a woman to lead it, much less a mom. While we didn’t manage to break that particular glass ceiling this time around, we did show Milwaukee, and all of its women and young girls, that a woman could run a campaign that could be taken seriously." The more than 23,000 absentee votes were added into the count just before 11 p.m., confirming Johnson and Donovan as the unofficial winners. The spring election is April 5, 2022. The race will fill the seat left by former Mayor Tom Barrett, who is now the U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg.
Wauwatosa voters poised to elect first Essential Prenatal Care, LLC hosts Black woman to common council 'Women's Empowerment Brunch'
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Margaret Arney (pictured above) is shattering a centuries-old glass ceiling in Wauwatosa this election season. The District 2 candidate for alderperson is running unopposed, making her poised to become the first Black person on Wauwatosa's Common Council in its 100-year history. She is a proud graduate of Rufus King High School and Harvard University. Arney said growing up as a biracial woman in Milwaukee opened her eyes to some of the same racial disparities that exist today. "I grew up crossing the color line on the bus," she said. "The bus would start off all white in my EastAn HTGroup, LLC Publication
side neighborhood, go all Black to my school, then go back to all white. It wasn't until I went to college... it was a whole different world. I was like 'wow other places don't have this color line'." Arney said that's when the seed of service was planted. "I wanted to be part of my hometown growing past and leaving behind the color line," she said. "I want my daughter in my descendant's world not to have a color line. We don't need it, we never needed it and we need to say goodbye to it." Arney has been heavily involved in the community for years. She's served as President of the Wauwatosa Neighborhood (Continued on pg. 2)
On Sunday, January 30, 2022, Essential Prenatal Care, LLC and Bloom Prenatal Care, LLC presented the "Women's Empowerment Vision Board Brunch," at 2703 N. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. The leadership team at Essentials Prenatal Care wanted to bring clients in for an in-person activity. The event was hosted by Nita Farrow, auditor for Milwaukee Public Schools. There was guest speaker Jacarrie Carr, owner of Jacarrie's Kicks 4 Kids, and others who shared their experiences and information about their business, how they started and how the stayed the course when times got tough. The participants then created vision boards as a way to put their personal goals on paper and communicating those visions to others. www.milwaukeetimesnews.com