Oak Creek - The two top vote-getters in Tuesday's primary for city clerk were LeAnn Launstein and Catherine Roeske, beating out Suzette Emmer, and they now will advance to the April 3 general election.
Launstein came in first in the three-way primary.
"I think I was successful in getting the message out," she said.
Voter turnout in Oak Creek was 18 percent.
Unofficial results are:
LeAnn Launstein 1,369
Catherine Roeske 1,142
Suzette Emmer 763
Election results remain unofficial until they are certified by the board of canvassers.
The position, a three-year term, was vacant after former City Clerk Pam Bauer retired late last year. Christa Miller has been serving as acting clerk for the city.
Launstein, 57, was a Milwaukee County supervisor from 1992 to 2002, and she was the director of Interfaith Older Adult Program-Neighborhood Outreach.
Roeske, 44, served as an election commission official in Illinois and worked at American Express Co. for 18 years.
Emmer, 56, is the deputy administrator for the Milwaukee County Election Commission.
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1 COMMENTS
vocal local - Feb 24 at 12:15 AM - Report Abuse
See if you can track down Pam Bauer and see if she will talk. Pam is not a fighter, she left, she didn’t simply retire from an elected post. As keeper of the official legal records we certainly can’t vote in a known person of zero integrity such as Launstein.
The corrupt are running America from the US Congress down to our back yard. I laugh at the typical every four year presidential voter who doesn’t realize that if they can’t control local politics and don’t vote in local elections they shouldn’t vote at all.
THE SILENT MAJORITY NEEDS TO VOTE IN APRIL. WE NEED TO TAKE BACK CITY GOVERNMENT BEFORE THE DEBT IS 175 MILLION (The current debt limit) or when your easy chairs wear out you won’t be able to buy a new one or stay in OC and pay escalating property taxes to pay acquired debt.
We need an honest city clerk who will not look the other way, who will finish the term and not allow others to falsify the record. Who will insist events occur in ordered succession instead of the sloppy mix match current practice, over use of closed session and planned presentations to the public including public voting schemes so that persons like Scaffidi are not exposed for manipulation and self service at the resident’s current and future expense. Folks are not paying attention to the voting records of the candidates. Scaffidi's in particular.
You also need a public forum which the mucky mucks don't want and didn't offer as their afraid to support Launstein publically. She'll probably decline any challenge.