Who wants to be La Crosse’s mayor?

Just when it felt like we had put the big campaign season behind us, and had started to prepare for the holidays, there’s another political campaign to talk about…at La Crosse City Hall. Time for the next election for mayor, and we’ve just learned it’s going to be another open race. Our former WIZM co-worker, Mitch Reynolds, has decided not to seek a second term. We already had two announced candidates for mayor before hearing that news, and I expect more to come our way soon. La Crosse had 10 candidates in the 2021 mayor’s race. Looking at the city’s history, I don’t expect any future mayor to beat the 22-year tenure of Pat Zielke, from the 1970’s to the 90’s. We’ve had a couple of two-term mayors since Pat, in John Medinger and Tim Kabat. Will future mayors want to serve more than four years, and will the voters want a single mayor for that long? That future is a long way off. Right now, campaign season is back in La Crosse, and it could be quite a show. I’m Brad Williams, on WIZM.