Gwen Moore is North Shore's New Congresswoman
The Democratic congresswoman will serve her fifth term in the House of Representatives with a decisive win over Republican Dan Sebring. It's her first term in a new district, covering Milwaukee's North Shore.
Democratic Congresswoman Gwen Moore easily won a fifth term in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, despite seeing more Republican communities added to her 4th Congressional District this year. Moore received 72 percent of the vote in her victory over two-time Republican challenger Dan Sebring, a former member of the Navy who now runs a car repair business in Milwaukee. With 92 percent of precincts reporting, Sebring had 25 percent of the vote. "We have been through so much in the last two years," Moore said in her victory speech. "But we just dug in, clicked our jaws down like good Badgers and hung in there." The 4th Congressional District previously covered the City of Milwaukee, and has historically been the most Democratic …
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10:50 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012
Wow! This is disappointing. Gwen Moore is everything that's wrong with the system these days. People vote for candidates because they "look like them" in lieu of any sort of ability they might possess. I actually think I would have rather had "Not The White Man's Bitch" instead of Gwen Moore. At least she would have shown up for the votes. more ›