The general consensus through the 6th district is that we want change â?? and it is coming, Jordan said. This should be a premier district, not one that you run from.

Milwaukee Ald. Michael McGee, Jr., will finally learn his fate tomorrow as voters in his 6th district, which includes Riverwest residents, choose whether or not to recall him from office.

McGee has faced a rocky road on the way to tomorrows primary election. If no one receives more than 50 percent of the vote, the top two candidates will face off on May 1.

The candidates on the ballot tomorrow will include: McGee, Jearlean Bradley-Hootsell, Patricia Bridges, ViAnna Jordan, David D. King, Walter Love, Josephine Morris and Una Van Duvall.

Jordan was the head of the recall petition efforts that forced the election.

I feel pretty good that well make the primary. We know we are the peoples choice because the people realize that none of the other candidates helped us [in the recall efforts], she said.

Jordan said the district needs to be cleaned up and that it should have city services second to none. She called for more community-based policing and better relationships between residents and police. She said there also needs to be better job and economic development in the district.

The general consensus through the 6th district is that we want change “ and it is coming, Jordan said. This should be a premier district, not one that you run from.

Multiple phone calls made to McGees office have gone unreturned.

The Milwaukee Election Commission on Feb. 12 re-certified the recall petitions against McGee. That was the second time the commission certified a recall against McGee. The state Elections Board overruled the first certification after finding the commission had abused its discretion in making decisions about some signatures on recall petitions in closed session.

Before that, McGees recall was contested. McGee sought to invalidate some signatures on the recall petitions because he said people who signed the recall papers were deceived and that children were used to circulate petitions.

The 6th aldermanic district stretches from Hampton Avenue on the north to Juneau Avenue on the south and from the Milwaukee River on the east to 26th Street on the west. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee sits in the 3rd aldermanic district, which is immediately east of the 6th.

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