Kenosha County goes red after destructive BLM riots, elects Republican for first time in decades

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In a possible precursor of an upcoming red wave, Republican state representative Samantha Kerkman won the election on Tuesday for the office of Kenosha County, Wisconsin, executive.

A Democrat has held the position in the swing county for at least 25 years.

Jim Kreuser, the current executive, served in the position since 2008, but announced last May that he was retiring.

The self-described conservative defeated Democrat court official Rebecca Matoska-Mentink by a margin of approximately 51 percent to 48 percent of the vote for the job that has a four-year term in what is described as a non-partisan contest. The party affiliations of the candidates weren’t, however, a secret.

Kerkman, 47, thus becomes the first female executive for the county, which is located about 6o miles from Chicago and 40 miles from Milwaukee, and only the fifth person to hold that position.

“I think it was the experience that I bring from [the legislature in] Madison,” the taxpayer-friendly, business-friendly Kerkman told the Kenosha News. “I have been working with the county executive for years on issues that impact the county.”

In the run-up to the election, Kerkman told Fox 6 Milwaukee that “Over the last 10 years, violent crime in Kenosha County has increased over 30%. And public safety is one of those things I hear about all the time. As county executive, I’d like to work together with our community partners to try to combat it.”

While campaigning, Kerkman characterized herself as having developed “a reputation of being eagle-eyed in saving money for Wisconsin taxpayers.”

According to the Kenosha County website, “The county executive is responsible for most administrative and management functions of county government,” including preparing the all-important annual budget for the board of supervisors. “The county executive also appoints and supervises county department heads.”

Headline-making riots erupted in Kenosha, the county seat, after the officer-involved shooting of  Jacob Blake in August 2020.

“The fallout from the rioting left the city looking like ‘a war zone,’ according to business owners at the time, and the damage topped $50 million,” Fox News reported.

Kenosha was the site of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, where a jury ultimately found the teen not guilty of fatally shooting two men during the unrest.

In a separate Wisconsin election, conservative Waukesha County Judge Maria Lazar defeated Judge Lori Kornblum for a seat on the Wisconsin court of appeals. Kornblum was the incumbent in the Waukesha-based court district.

“Lazar’s win was the second time in two years a conservative-backed challenger defeated an incumbent appellate judge appointed by Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat. Last year, Shelley Grogan, a law clerk to conservative Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley, beat Jeffrey Davis, who represented corporate clients at a major law firm and had served on the Court of Appeals for nearly two years,” the Stevens Point Journal recalled.

Evers himself is seeking reelection this year in what could be another possible flip for the GOP.

“Republican-backed candidates in local school board races came out as big winners in the Milwaukee suburbs that are critical for the Wisconsin GOP in statewide elections,” the Associated Press added.

On a national level, many political prognosticators on both sides of the aisle seem to anticipate that Republicans will regain both houses of the U.S. Congress in November.

It also remains to be seen how mail-in balloting, ballot harvesting, voter ID or lack thereof, recounts, and other techniques, depending upon the jurisdiction, will affect the congressional outcome.

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17 thoughts on “Kenosha County goes red after destructive BLM riots, elects Republican for first time in decades

  1. Don’t celebrate too soon – you KNOW how “votes” just “SOMETIMES APPEAR”!! Good for her AND Kenosha!

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  3. ANTIFA is a 1920s Communist Jewish Bolshevik revolutionary group now active in United States funded by Communist Jewish Specter! Communist Jew ERIC MANN trained Communist Patrisse Cullors in California and she trained Cori Bush (squad et al). Black Lives Matter is “Black Brigade” being used to terrorize people of the United States as “Black Brigade ” terrorize Cuban people. Queer Communist Harry Hay trained Queer Communist Harvey Milk who created the Queer Communist Flag 🌈 Yes! That’s the QUEER COMMUNIST FLAG displayed openly and protected by Clandestine Communist Jewish Specter and that Queer Communist Flag made it’s way to the U.S. Embassies in Afghanistan along with Soviet Negro Republic Black Lives Matter flag hanging outside South Korean Embassy.

  4. But is he a real Republican or another Menshevik Communist Rockefeller Republican like Larry Hogan et al?

  5. When the average, intelligent person, discovers or realizes what a Liberal, racist Demorat Communist or (RINO) Fake Republican, in ANY position, believes or does, they will hopefully and rightfully, turn against them.

  6. Funny how getting your aassss kicked and town destroyed will snap you out of a funk. Kenosha county is blue collar with a goodly number of blacks. Both of which realize their safty trumps their desire to look the other way anymore, when viewing what the democrat party has become. The red tsunami is real and will soon be at your door.

  7. THE RED WAVE is quickly becoming a TSUNAMI like the world has never seen ! The people of this country are FED UP with the CORRUPTION, LYING, CHEATING AND STEALING of these AZZHOLES that call themselves “demorats ” !!

  8. Sounds like those folks have had enough of that nonsense that the idiot demonrats dish out. I suspect a lot more communities will do the same. Anyone with any sense has to admit that the demonrats have lost all sense of reality and decency

  9. Great to see this. Now give Kyle Rittenhouse a medal for defending your city.

  10. Clear evidence that even families who’ve been voting Dem for literally generations can and have reached the limits of their tolerance for woke.

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