Friday, December 7, 2012
The Greendale State Representative announces chairmanship for 2013 – 2014 Legislative
Committees.
State Representative Jeff Stone, who represents Greendale and Greenfield, was named this week Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Small Business Development and Vice Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Health. “I am honored to be serving as Chair of the Assembly Committee on Small Business Development," Stone said in a release. "Being a small business owner for over 25 years, I know first-hand how challenging, but also how rewarding, starting and growing a small business can be. Small businesses have historically been the backbone of our economy. I look forward to working on important issues such as ways to encourage more start-up opportunities and entrepreneurship in our state." Dr. Erik Severson (R – Star Prairie) will take Stone…
Friday, November 9, 2012
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at the Layton Avenue entrance ramp to celebrate the completion of the project.
A four-year long interstate project that may have given southside drivers a headache has been completed a month ahead of schedule. Officials from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, state legislators and community members gathered at the newly opened Layton Avenue entrance for a ribbon cutting ceremony Friday. The Mitchell Interchange project was completed ahead of schedule and under budget. “This is a beautiful new piece of Wisconsin’s infrastructure,” said State Rep. Mark Honadel, who represents Oak Creek. “We look at this particular interchange as a gateway to our state, the front door to our state (for) all our air travelers that come in here people from the south of Illinois that come through here.” The project constructed a …
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Mitt Romney and Tommy Thompson won the vote in Greendale but ultimately fell in the presidential and U.S. Senate elections. Romney garnered 54 percent of the vote in Greendale with a village-wide turnout of 82 percent.
Even though President Barack Obama won the national election, Romney garnered 54 percent of the vote in Greendale with a village-wide turnout of 82 percent. According to unofficial results from Village Clerk Kathy Kasza, Republicans Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan garnered 4,854 votes in Greendale while Democrats Obama and Biden received 3,972. Obama, however, carried Wisconsin and several other key swing states on his way to win a second term in the White House. Greendale has trended towards Republican candidates for partisan offices, according to Kasza. In 2000 and 2004, The Bush-Cheney ticket got 58 percent of the vote in Greendale. In 2008, McCain-Palin carried the village with 54 percent. In a hotly contested race for the state's open U.S. …
Friday, November 2, 2012
Due to printer's error, campaign material incorrectly conveys Republican's position on Act 10, the collective bargaining law.
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Friday, November 2, 2012
State Rep. Jeff Stone, who is seeking re-election in the 82nd Assembly District, issued this statement Friday afternoon regarding a campaign mailing piece that included extraneous words prefacing a quote from Bill Smith of the Wisconsin National Federation for Independent Business. I know that at this point of the election cycle, printers and mail houses are working around the clock to meet the needs of their customers who are in the political business. As a printer myself, I understand that errors can be made working in such a time sensitive environment. Unfortunately, the vendor I use made one of these mistakes and put out a campaign lit piece which inaccurately includes the extraneous phrase “Wants to Repeal Act 10”. To be clear: I …
A Democratic teacher is taking on veteran Republican incumbent Jeff Stone.
For 12 years, state Rep. Jeff Stone has not had a Democratic opponent. But now he’s being challenged by a Greendale native with a background in teaching. While Stone defends Gov. Scott Walker’s collective bargaining initiatives and budgeting, his opponent thinks they went too far, were too divisive, and were too unfair to educators. "When the state was divided in half, I became tired of the fighting. I wanted to be part of the solution," said challenger Kathleen Wied Vincent. "The real reason I did this is because I don't want our children and grandchildren to inherit a mess. I wanted to make a difference in a community where people knew our family, where there are good people, and where people care about neighbors, family and friends." …
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Greendale State Rep. Jeff Stone and state Sen. Chris Larson took part in Oak Creek High School's first-ever "Great Presidential Debate" Wednesday at the Oak Creek Community Center.
Though the presidential debates are in the rearviewmirror, Oak Creek High School put on its own version Wednesday afternoon. State Sen. Chris Larson and Greendale State Rep. Jeff Stone played the roles of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in the school's "Great Presidential Debate" at the Oak Creek Community Center. It was the first time Oak Creek High School has put on such a debate, which was a joint effort between the Young Democrats and Young Republicans. Unlike the real presidential debates, civility ruled the day and personal attacks were nonexistent. With the nation polarized over the campaign, Wednesday's event provided a welcome reprieve. "We have to give people credit — they can hear opposing viewpoints," event coordinator Dave …
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Greendale State Rep. Jeff Stone is concerned that the $3.3 million cut will affect services in Milwaukee County suburbs.
County Executive Chris Abele announced on Monday a proposal to cut the County Sheriff’s budget by $3.3 million and pay the City of Milwaukee just half that amount to take over county park patrols and a portion of the county's 911 calls, according to JSOnline. This cut would mean the layoff of 23 department employees, 21 of them deputies. Part of the plan sends lakefront and park patrols, plus some county 911 calls to Milwaukee police. Abele said this move would provide budget savings. Greendale State Representative Jeff Stone thinks it's not a real solution. "The County Executive's recent proposal to eliminate 23 Sheriff's Deputy positions and to give $1.6 Million to the City of Milwaukee is flawed," Stone said in a release. "It has been …
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Here are the latest updates from the campaign trail in the race to be the next U.S. senator from Wisconsin.
Leading up to the Aug. 14 primary, Patch will regularly bring you the latest news from the campaigns for Wisconsin's U.S. Senate seat in play this election cycle. WISN cancels debate WISN-TV (Channel 12) on Tuesday cancelled a debate planned with GOP candidates due to scheduling issues between the station and Eric Hovde's campaign. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, representatives of the station were able to get commitments from the Tommy Thompson, Mark Neumann and Jeff Fitzgerald campaigns, but they did not come to a consensus with Hovde. The debate was set to take place at the Marquette University Law School on July 31, Aug. 2 or Aug. 7. A debate is still planned for the winner of the Aug. 14 primary and Democratic candidate …
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
State Representatives Jeff Stone and Jon Richards debated about whether Wisconsin is taking a risk by not creating health insurance exchanges.
Greendale State Rep. Jeff Stone supports the governor’s decision to hold off on creating health insurance exchanges till after the presidential election. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act in June, in which every state is required to create an insurance exchange, a place where you must go to buy your health insurance. Gov. Scott Walker said the state will not take any action to implement the provisions of the federal law. "I am hopeful that political changes in Washington, D.C., later this year ultimately end the implementation of this law at the federal level," the Republican governor said back in June. Stone told WISN in an interview that he believes people in Wisconsin will be paying more for health insurance and …
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Kathleen Wied Vincent, who lives in Brookfield, plans to move back into Greendale, where she graduated high school and later taught, so she can run for the 82nd Assembly seat long held by state Rep. Jeff Stone.
Editors note: While Patch will report on all candidates' backgrounds and stances on the issues before the November election, this story focuses on state Rep. Jeff Stone's first Democratic opponent in a dozen years. ___________________________________ A Brookfield woman plans to return to Greendale — where she grew up, graduated high school and later taught — so she can make a run for the state Assembly seat held by Rep. Jeff Stone. Kathleen Wied Vincent says she is a teacher, not a politician, but feels compelled to run because she wants to help heal the divided state and forge bipartisan solutions. "I have seen family and friends completely torn apart from politics," she said. "People can not agree and they can't get along. There's a …
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10:37 am on Saturday, December 8, 2012
Maybe he can show them how to start up a company in their father in laws house and then how to ignore local zoning laws. What a poor choice. more ›