I’m recommending challenger Dimity Grabowski over incumbent Jeff Plale. As alderwoman in Oak Creek, Grabowski somehow got both mayor Dick Bolender and tax-and-spender alderman Al Foeckler (whose district I’m thankfully leaving Wednesday) to agree to a no-levy-increase budget (even though they’re tapping half of a $6 million reserve fund). It sure seems there are two Plales; the moderate pro-life, pro-school-choice Plale that existed before he became state Senator, and the liberal partisan hack that thinks taxes aren’t high enough. The Dems tried to kill the moderate Plale, and even though their candidate Donovan “Vote Twice Like a ‘Rat” Riley was forced to drop out of the race because of double-voting, the 25% he still got will probably be enough to kill the moderate Plale if he’s returned to the state Senate.