Ted Grintjes evidently doesn't read Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columns or see the video they posted, or listen to talk radio.
What a botched job. Horrendous and expensive - - and this debacle comes from a member of the Franklin Citizens for Responsible Government (Grintjes was the group's spokesman in 2003).
Ah, the Franklin Citizens for Responsible Government. Here's a little background on that group from the 12/17/06 Journal Sentinel:
Franklin Citizens for Responsible Leadership emerged in March 2003, saying it intended to recall [Basil] Ryan and anyone else members saw as blocking the city's economic development efforts. Over the next year, the group replaced four of the six sitting aldermen with one of its founding members - Ald. Steve Olson - and three others sympathetic to its agenda. Olson later distanced himself from the group.
The group made what turned out to be false or exaggerated claims against opponents in fliers, claiming in one case that the candidate knew a sex-offender home was being planned for Franklin and that the candidate did nothing to fight a landfill expansion whose height would "exceed the Empire State Building."
"It was 'take the office at all costs.' That was the tactic they used," said former Ald. Don Dorsan, who lost to Olson and complained to the district attorney's office that the group had knowingly distributed false information about him.
Sounds like a great bunch of fellas.
From The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Regional News Briefs section.
Group awaits feedback on 'Boomgaard' name
Franklin - A controversial plan to christen the area along S. 27th St. in Franklin and Oak Creek as the Boomgaard District is on hold while the committee that chose the moniker gets more feedback from local residents and businesses.
Ted Grintjes, who chairs the S. 27th St. Steering Committee, said Wednesday that a final decision on the name could take 120 days or more.
"We've heard from only one side, the blogger community and the people who comment on the blogs," Grintjes said of the negative reception the name has received since it was announced. "And we'd really like to hear from the business community and residents."
The name Boomgaard, which is Dutch for orchard, plays on the city's environmental and cultural history, but it has been pilloried by critics as pretentious and a bad fit for the two communities.
The committee decided to suspend action on the name Tuesday night after the mayors of Oak Creek and Franklin sent it back for reconsideration.
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