Martinez defeated Zepnick by a 17 vote margin on Tuesday's election for Milwaukee County 12th District Supervisor.
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
April 8, 2022
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Friday, former State Representative Josh Zepnick, 54, confirmed to Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA) that he has conceded and accepted the defeat by Juan Miguel Martinez, 37, a self-proclaimed anti-cop socialist who won the Milwaukee County Supervisor 12th District race on Tuesday, April 5, 2022 by a margin of 17 votes.
Martinez received 1,780, 50.24% of the vote and Zepnick received 1,763, 49.76% of the vote on Tuesday.
Martinez ran on a platform to defund the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office and was endorsed by the Milwaukee Democratic Socialists of America, Citizen Action of Wisconsin, Voces de la Frontera Action, Milwaukee Teachers Education Association, Wisconsin Family Working Party, Milwaukee Area Service & Hospitality Workers Organization and the Black Leaders Organizing for Communities.
Martinez in April 2021 during an interview with Mr. Nice Guy confessed that when he was 20 years old, he and three other friends while in Mexico City assaulted a police officer in Mexico and his friend stole his badge and wore it all night while drinking at a bar.
He also posted on his Facebook (FB) account that the Republican Party should be aborted and called a police officer "pig". On March 23, 2021, Martinez posted, "...fuck the Democrats. Same bullshit as the Republicans" regarding to the temporary ICE processing facilities of undocumented immigrants under the Biden administration. In January 11, 2017, Martinez posted on FB, "Mexican word of the day: Fuck..."
Martinez also favors the Fidel Castro communist regime in Cuba.
Martinez will become the second Socialist on the Milwaukee County Board, the other known Socialist is Ryan Clancy who was reelected to the Milwaukee County Board in District 4.
During the Milwaukee County Supervisor Redistricting process, Supervisor Clancy opposed the creation of the majority Hispanic 12th County Supervisor District that Martinez won in and Voces de la Frontera never submitted or advocated support for the creation of the current 12th County Supervisor District because they supported Clancy at the time and didn't want to oppose him. Eventually, Milwaukee County Supervisor Sylvia Ortiz-Velez pushed for the creation of a majority Hispanic voting-age population for the District and Clancy later voted in favor with the unanimous vote by the Milwaukee County Board to approve the Milwaukee County Supervisor Redistricting maps, according to Milwaukee County Legistar records.
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