Wisconsin State Senator Lena C. Taylor (D-Milw) Circulating Nomination Papers For City of Milwaukee Mayor 2022

Taylor to circulate her nomination papers to get 1,500 signatures in order to be placed on the February 2022 Primary Ballot for the Mayoral race in Milwaukee.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

December 25, 2021

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Saturday, Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA) learned that Wisconsin State Senator Lena C. Taylor (D-Milw) will begin to circulate her nomination papers to get her required 1,500 signatures needed to get on the February 15, 2022, Primary Ballot for the City of Milwaukee Mayoral race. Sen. Taylor ran against incumbent Mayor Tom Barrett in 2020 and today, Taylor is the 8th candidate to announce that she is a candidate for Mayor.

Taylor has been on the current news fighting for Black and Latino majority redistricting districts in the State legislature and for the Milwaukee Latino community to gain a third Aldermanic majority district while Governor Tony Evers (D) has been doing the opposite, which Evers has openly favored and continues to promote the People's Maps Commission redistricting maps that dilute both Black and Latino majority voting-age populations in the State Senate and Assembly districts located in Milwaukee.

The two high vote getters in the February Primary Election in 2022 will face off in the April General Election.

Taylor, if elected Mayor in the City of Milwaukee on April 5, 2022, the General Election, she will become the first Black woman to be elected as Mayor in Milwaukee.

Mayor Barrett resigned as Mayor on December 22, 2021 to become the next U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg under the Biden administration.

Milwaukee Common Council President Cavalier Johnson was sworn-in as acting City of Milwaukee Mayor. Johnson who is also a candidate for Mayor is now facing a federal lawsuit filed on December 15, 2021 by the Original Black Panthers and the Brown Berets who claimed that Johnson used Milwaukee police officers on October 16, 2021 to deny both groups access to an open Town Hall meeting at the Redemption Lutheran Church in Milwaukee. Acting Mayor Johnson is certainly no friend to the Black and Latino communities and his decision to deny access to both the Original Black Panthers and the Brown Berets to attend a Town Hall meeting to address community issues affecting them only shows how Johnson is no friend to either communities.