Municipal court judge candidate Jeff Norman is forging ahead with a write-in campaign after being dropped from the Feb 20 primary ballot. Norman, a detective with the Milwaukee Police Department, has been spotted around town handing out stickers bearing his name that can be affixed to the ballot as well as continuing to attend politically-mandatory events. According to the Milwaukee Election Commission, ballots with affixed candidate sticks/stamps in the write-in section are permissible.
Norman was dropped from the ballot after failing to file a Statement of Economic Interest with the State Ethics Board.
Historically, write-in candidates have a very low success rate however in such a crowded field of announced candidates, 5 total, it won’t take many votes in the primary to finish in the top two and advance to the general election on April 3rd.
This race has drawn some interest in the news because of Jeff’s removal from the ballot as well as a politically savvy attempt by candidate Jay Unora to question whether or not candidates should have filed statements with the city as well as the state. No formal challenge was lodged by Unora, who filed statements with both the city and state just to be sure, but give him political points for trying to eliminate some of all of his competition.
Other announced candidates for the race are Phil Chavez, Bill Baldon, Robert Rondini and Jennifer Havas.
