Good morning,
Whitewater’s forecast calls for a windy day with a high temperature of sixty-seven degrees.
The City of Whitewater’s Common Council will meet tonight at 6:30 p.m. The agenda for the meeting is available online.
The Wisconsin Historical Society recounts that on this day in 1977, Wisconsin’s first judicial recall election took place:
1977 – Wisconsin’s First Judicial Recall Election
On this date Wisconsin’s first judicial-recall election was held. Dane County citizens voted Judge Archie Simonson out of office. Simonson called rape a normal male reaction to provocative female attire and modern society’s permissive attitude toward sex. He made this statment while explaining why he sentenced a 15-year-old to only one year of probation for raping a 16-year-old girl. After the recall election, Simonson was replaced by Moria Krueger, the first woman judge elected in Dane County history. [Source: Initiative & Referendum Institute]
