This will be revised and extended as further numbers come in. The time-stamp will be updated to reflect this. As of 11:04 pm, however, I’m done updating. One last update since the New Berlin numbers came in.
Also, a correction; I should know better than to depend on DayWatch to provide accurate information; the Mukwonago land grab scheme passed handily.
Further revisions/extensions (12:28 pm 4/4/2007) – It was wishful thinking on the Goron who ran the Journtinel’s vote tabulator last night. The townsfolks in Mukwonago did NOT, repeat, did NOT approve the land grab scheme, though the DayWatch article I depended on originally had the wrong numbers.
Good news – As I type, Annette Ziegler is leading Lieberal Linda Clifford 57%-43% with 51% in. AP has declared Ziegler the winner. Make that margin 58%-42% with 84% in.
Bad news – Fred Dooley got waxed 362 votes to 226 votes.
Good news – Mark Verhalen is my new alderman, winning 401 votes to 386 votes.
Bad news – Junior McGee-Jackson intimidated enough voters in his district to survive his recall without having to go through a run-off.
Good news – The largest tax increase referendum in the history of Wisconsin (Elmbrook School District’s attempt to borrow $99.3 on the big question to remodel the high schools to Taj Mahal standards and another $10 million to build marble-lined field-houses at those schools) went down in flames to the tune of 61%-39% on the big question, 64%-36% on the not-as-big question.
Bad news – The second-largest tax increase referendum in the history of Wisconsin (New Richmond School District’s attempt to borrow $92.9 million new high school/new elementary school/remodeled future middle school/remodeled elementary school) passed 2,370 votes to 1,818 votes. The relatively-good news is a 5-year “non-recurring” $500,000 cap-buster for the new elementary school fell 2,122 votes to 2,047 votes.
Good news – The third-largest tax increase referendum in the state (Franklin’s attempt to borrow $75.9 million to build a Taj Mahal high school) also went down in flames 60%-40%, with the related $1.18 million recurring cap-buster falling 62%-38%.
Bad news – Ryan McCue will continue Cudahy’s descent into the 9th ring of Tax Hell unabated as he won the mayoral race there 60%-40%.
Good news – Bill McReynolds won another term as Racine County Executive 54%-46%.
Bad news – Brown Deer voters continue the trend of turning northern Milwaukee County into a lieberal tax-hell bastion, voting themselves a $4.1 million tax increase so their school district could overspend on science classrooms without having to make any cuts in Cadillac benefits.
Good news – Delafield’s $20.15 million plan to build a pair of Taj Mahals for the cops and firefighters fell 56%-44%.
Bad news – Despite no more potential for growth, the Greendale School District suckered the taxpayers into taxing themselves an additional $14.6 million for “adding to, improving and renovating” their schools.
Good news – The Washington County land-grab scheme fell 63%-37%.
Bad news – The Mukwonago School District got a pair of victories to spend an additional $23 million so they could continue to offer Rolls-Royce benefits while catching up on intentionally-delayed repairs and continuing to offer the same level of education.
Good news (I hope this is final; the initial call from JSOnline’s DayWatch had the correct result, but incorrect numbers, while JSOnline’s running vote totals had the incorrect result but the right if transposed numbers) – The townsfolk in Mukwonago rejected their town board’s land-grab scheme 64%-36%. While the board said it would respect the voters’ decision in this advisory referendum, it remains to be seen whether they follow through.
The ultimate bad news – Every school official reached by the Journtinel from the districts that were slapped down, plus the Gorons that are ruinin…er, running Delafield, promised to not listen to the voters that said to practice fiscal restraint and to come back again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again until they sucker the voters like the Brown Deer, Greendale and the Mukwonago School Boards successfully did.
