THIS WEEKS MEETING - RIVER BARN PARK

This week’s program: Lobsterfest Update

An in depth discussion on where we stand and what we need to make happen before the event?

Ticket sale update (Alice), Sponsorship update (Bobby), Volunteer update (Chuck), Auction update (Cindy), Public Relations update (Lisa); and then I’d like to have a slide show showcasing past LF’s that plays during breakfast. 

Voter turnout high in North Shore 
By Jeff Rumage

Whitefish Bay — Local primary elections in local elections are notorious for low participation, but in the North Shore, voters doubled the statewide voter turnout prediction.

Statewide voter turnout was predicted to be 15 percent, which every North Shore community beat. North Shore communities in Milwaukee County doubled the statewide voter turnout prediction.

Mordecai Lee, a former state legislator and political science professor at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, said Tuesday's turnout results are in keeping with a strong voting tradition in the North Shore. He said the propensity to vote is in relationship to higher income, age and level of education.

It doesn't hurt that there were contested primaries in the 10th Assembly District in Shorewood and the 6th Congressional District, which includes Mequon, Thiensville and River Hills. State Sen. Glenn Grothmann won the three-way Republican primary to represent the 6th Congressional District.

"A congressional race is a marquee race. A vacant congressional seat comes around once in a generation sometimes," he said.

Here's the voter turnout percentage of each local community:

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