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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am voting for Bowser.  The city is well-run and she is pro-police.  She has been tough on Racine, who has been soft on the prosecution of criminals.  Racine endorses Robert White.

Throughout the pandemic, Bowser has done a great job with getting vaccines out, rapid tests, PCR testing.  And now with each ward having a COVID center, it's been impressive.

I also like that she was tough on the WTU when they wanted to keep schools closed for a longer period of time, which we now know, and many of us knew then, is a disastrous thing to do to kids.

Bowser has my vote.[/quote]

Did a great job getting vaccines out?  It was a SH*TSHOW. I drove up to Pennsylvania to get mine after waiting weeks and not being allowed to sign up since I was in Ward 3. [/quote]

She could have done better but she did a good job. People like you were not going to be happy unless you were first in line. It seemed like ages, but it actually only took weeks before everyone had access. I am also impressed by the fire station testing she set up, and now the covid centers. Anyway, it was the progressives that insisted that vaccines should be allocated based on factors other that eagerness to be first in line. If we left it to progressives like R White claims to be, Ward 3 would have had to wait longer.

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Yes, I agree that nothing under Bowser has been perfect. And the covid response was still pretty good. When I compared our access to vaccines, PCR tests, rapid tests to some adjoining counties, we were actually way ahead! I can be pissed now that schools were closed so long, but I admit that at the time I didn't want to send my kids. I was scared of covid! My teenager didn't want to go at all, and my elementary kid was learning online ok.

Bowser is not perfect by any means, but we don't have any better candidates. [/quote]

On schools, Bowser tried to open in Nov and I give her credit for that. Then she continued to push for Feb by getting teachers vaccine access. One of the most interesting political things she did on schools was give principals a lot of individual discretion in reopening. This meant that schools could be flexible based on what the immediate community would accept. The downside to that was that some principals were too conservative; but in places where parents wanted their kids in school, it happened. Given the failure in Nov, I think this was the best way to get kids back & demonstrate it was OK and safe. [/quote]

Yes it was the best way to go about it. The November plan would have been a disaster[/quote]

I really like that Bowser didn't support the principals with things like COVID coordinators even though she promised them.  More work for the principals is a good thing, right?  I mean, it's not like they had other challenges to work on this year.  Way to go, half-ass Bowser![/quote]

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