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How about this gem from another TBOC former alderman Rush Wilkens “I don’t know how that Nazi literature was found at my house” And the rest of us are the racists?
Maybe DOJ should look into that one?

Voice and Intrigued - you're idiots.

Mayor Chiovatero proposed tax increases in each of his 5 years as Mayor (with no controls on spending).

Mayor Chiovatero covered up budget shortfalls and is not communicating additional taxes and fees coming our way.

Mayor Chiovatero is beholden to a Liberal group expecting favors (projects, appointments and contracts) in order to keep his $125,000 package (including his taxpayer SUV).

Mayor Chiovatero’s tax & spend Liberal ways has been blocked repeatedly by Hopkins, Seidl, Ament, (Harenda and Wysocki).

Mayor Chiovatero needs a Complicit Council (4 votes) to do his - and the Take Care / Machine - bidding.

Mayor Chiovatero's Liberal Machine hand-picked the “new” Council candidates.

Mayor Chiovatero has said, "tax because we can”, “should have taxed you more in the good years" and "2010 will be a worse year for taxes."

Mayor Chiovatero = Barrett, Doyle and Obama

Mayor Chiovatero’s campaign advisors (led by former / rejected officials, led by former Mayor Gatzke) brought us the City Center, dumping it on the current Council – with MAYOR Chiovatero clearly abdicating responsibility. How can a Council be responsible, but not the Mayor, who is being “managed and financed” by the people who forced the project on NB? By the way, anyone investigate who owns, or manages, or seeks to profit, especially from new (and potentially changed) City Center development desires?

Glad to see the forum is on-line. Now the 'armchair quarterbacks', such as HTC & JB, can finally chime in.

The forum makes it crystal clear the incumbents understand the issues, know the facts, etc. and their opponents obviously do not.

A mom: "I made up my mind about each candidate not based on their opening statements or their campaign flyers, but on what they said in response to questions.

Seems to me that's a pretty good way to assess candidates for office. And of course, we assess the incumbents based on what they do. I support the incumbents in these districts both for what they've done on the Council, and on how they answered questions at the forum."

Kudos to you for placing these values on how you will vote.

A Mom ... "I made up my mind about each candidate not based on their opening statements or their campaign flyers, but on what they said in response to questions."

Talk is cheap. A better tact in selecting your candidate of choice would be to look at voting records. How did they vote? Did their vote represent your point of view? Did the vote by Wysocki, Harenda and Ament that caused the church to successfully sue the city resulting in the expense of hundreds of thousands of dollars represent your point of view? Or how about that wonderfully designed and quaint city center of ours? How's that working for you? The people in office now are accountable for the city center's failure and continuing failure. Check your facts. Check the voting records.

I think you and others will find that while the contenders are less experienced, they are a fresh breath of air to NB politics. Not serving special interest groups or a ignorant viewpoint.

Time for a change. Time for the voters to kick the 'lifers' off the council. The good ole boy's need to run along.

I'm a third of the way through this forum. It is horribly painful to watch. These are all bad public speakers. I'd be bad too though. I can't fault them for being bad at public speaking. This is not what most of us do on a regular basis. Being a good public speaker also does not necessarily make your ideas good. As a public we do tend to fall for the presentation though...as opposed to the content. It really is going to simply come down to this....re-elect what we have if you want to live in a world here in New Berlin where taxes are kept artificially low while things like roads, parks, police, fire, paramedic service are left to go or be cut back....or face the fact that you can't keep taxes flat if you don't want everything to decay. During the good times our incumbents wanted to keep taxes flat...and during the bad times...because now times are bad...we must keep taxes flat. Well....all this flatness has a cost. Maintenance is being neglected...and you can see this in our roads. Our roads suck. That's how we have kept taxes low. We let our roads go. Now they want to pretend they are taking care of the problem.....bull....they suck...and these clowns need to go because they have been less then honest all along. Heck...I've got weeds growing through all the cracks in my road during the summer and big chunks on the side are falling off into the ditch. These jokers are doing the same thing the School District did...they let things go to keep taxes artificially low and then they have emergencies popping up where they have to waste money fixing things in "emergency mode"...like the boilers at the school...and the sewage waste treatment issue...and the maintenance equipment issue and the computer/technology issue. Get these guys out of here please and replace them with people that realize....cost go up...they don't stay flat year...after year...after year. A wonderful fantasy that would be....but it's not reality.

I found a link to the Voters Forum http://nbps.mediasite.com/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=7c8b705592d54c5ca6a38e217a630eb4

@HTC: Regarding roads - as I learned at the forum, NB has 250 miles of roads, and road repair takes place every year. However, as I'm sure we all know, potholes constantly show up in late winter / early spring, in random places, and they can't all be fxed immediately.

As far as conservatives being cruel ... what??? It seems to me that my observations were not the least bit cruel. No name-calling, nothing untruthful, no ridiculous accusations. I'm sure the challengers in Districts 1 and 7 are nice people, good neighbors, probably good at their jobs. But in my opinion, based on what they said at the forum, they just aren't as qualified for common council. Period.

Isn't it OK to asess the quality of candidates' ideas? How else are we to make decisions as voters? Trust me, if you'd seen the forum, you would have seen and heard the same things I did.

And for the record, again, I'm not a "hoynie" or "richterite"; I'd never met Ralph Heun until he introduced himsef after the forum, I don't belong to NBCRG and never did, and while listening to the forum, I didn't know which candidate was sponsored by which organization. Frankly, I hadn't paid attention to the names listed by Ralph on this post, since prior to the forum I was only paying attention to my own district, the 5th. I never was involved in NB city politics before, other than voting in my own aldermanic races and for mayor.

I made up my mind about each candidate not based on their opening statements or their campaign flyers, but on what they said in response to questions.

Seems to me that's a pretty good way to assess candidates for office. And of course, we assess the incumbents based on what they do. I support the incumbents in these districts both for what they've done on the Council, and on how they answered questions at the forum.

Taxed too Much, according to The Rotary Club's home page the Voter Forum will be televised on Channel 25 at 6 P.M. on April 1, 1 P.M. on April 2, and 6 P.M. on April 3. I hope that you didn't lose too much money on that bet.