{"id":1597,"date":"2010-12-07T13:03:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T19:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2010-12-07T13:44:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T19:44:14","slug":"madison-mayors-race-heats-up-eastside-is-groundzero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/madison-mayors-race-heats-up-eastside-is-groundzero\/","title":{"rendered":"Madison Mayor’s Race Heats Up: Eastside is Groundzero"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the incumbent announced his bid for re-election on the steps of city hall yesterday<\/a>….<\/p>\n

….A challenger will announce his candidacy <\/a>from an emerging center of innovation & ingenuity —\u00a0Sector67<\/a> — based right here in my ‘hood, the Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahara neighborhood. The event is today, Tuesday, 3:15 p.m., at Sector67, 2100 Winnebago St., Madison, WI.<\/p>\n

I’m not endorsing anyone here, but I’d just like to point out that defenders of the status quo are predicting an easy path to victory for the incumbent<\/a> — i.e., the candidate-of-the-status quo. They forget that in 2003 the Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahara neighborhood led the way in overthrowing the thinking of the past.* This neighborhood turned out so many people to the polls then that not only was the incumbent defeated, but the old bull, dominator-of-all-things-Madison-political, Paul Soglin, had his lunch eaten. No neighborhood in the city delivered more votes, and a greater margin for victory for either candidate than this neighborhood.<\/p>\n

I believe that lesson was not lost on Radomski.**<\/p>\n

*Ok, ok, all I can say is, at least we got 2-3 years of progressive thinking & action out of David J. Cieslewicz before he lurched rightward — right back to the status quo ante!<\/p>\n

**Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I believe I was the first to call his candidacy, back in the summer of Aught 9.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Radomski is Really Running. Mayor Pave hears footsteps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[887,1324,29,376,902,581],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-madison-politics","category-places-that-dont-suck","tag-david-j-cieslewicz","tag-madison-politics","tag-mayor-pave","tag-noel-radomski","tag-paul-soglin","tag-schenk-atwood-starkweather-yahara-neighborhood-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}