Milwaukee County has a Republican pretending to be a Democrat running for County Supervisor
At least that's the assertion being made on the Cognitive Dissidence blog...
http://cognidissidence.blogspot.com/2012/03/dirty-politics-in-district-four.html
Dirty Politics in District Four
Her opponent, Bill Buresh, has run a questionable campaign. He has made some silly mistakes, such as misspelling Dimitrijevic's name, to more "What is he thinking?" types of mistakes, such as campaigning that the county shouldn't be paying down it's debts. He also has a website that appears good at first glance, but if you go to move beyond the homepage, you may have problems because of a lot of insecure javascript.
Another unfathomable issue is who he associates with. One of his campaign planks is that he feels Dimitrijevic doesn't work with enough with Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele. While Abele has done some commendable things, such as passing domestic benefits, he has also made some unfortunate choices, such as pushing for an emergency fiscal manager comptroller, which is neither needed or affordable.
Another questionable associate is one of his main supporters, Aaron Rodriguez. Rodriguez has written some gushing pieces about Buresh, which should raise red flags. Rodriguez is a stalwart conservative and a big fan of Scott Walker's and has some knowledge of what was happening in Walker's office which led to Walkergate, while Buresh is supposedly a Democrat (like Abele and David Clarke are supposedly Democrats).
The article includes additional information about Buresh's supporters and their lack of Democratic credentials.
The article also reports on the "real" Democrat, incumbent Marina Dimitrijevic, portraying her as a worthy candidate.
Dimitrijevic is a tireless, progressive dynamo that, by all appearances, has a big future ahead of her. She has been repeatedly voted the "best supervisor" in the county and made the cover of Wisconsin Woman. She has, for the most part, served Milwaukee County well, and has introduced such things as a sustainability program known as Green Print, which not only helped the environment, but saved the taxpayers a bundle. She also introduced a new level of transparency to Milwaukee County government by making both the legislative process and campaign financing more accessible to the public. On top of all this, and most importantly, she is very open and accessible to her constituents, having held more than 125 town hall meetings at which she tells her constituents about what's going on as well as listens to their concerns.
We all need to do a better job of weeding out these infiltrators.
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