Fitchburg Residents Defend and Clean Up the Park, Neighborhood

Fitchburg residents, Eric Podell, Dave Herbst and Alan Craig,
take an axe to old couch despoiling their neighborhood. On a
Saturday morning, they picked up garbage, trash and refuse
left on residents' and City property in an ongoing battle.

Update: Dave Herbst upsets five-term incumbent Ald Dorothy Krause - 375 votes - 323 votes.

Fitchburg, Wisconsin — In Fitchburg's Jamestown neighborhood, an enclave of beautiful homes with immaculate yards and gardens dot King James Blvd in this city bordering Madison.

The families love their homes and take the interested on tours around the neighborhood with obvious pride. Lovely homes and community though, have become a point of contention.

This is because a small, unorganized group of folks in the same neighborhood adamantly believe in their right to dump garbage, litter in these same lawns and leave old couches and other trash in a nearby park. Outcasts and hooligans, right? Wrong.
They have support from a sitting City Council member and other supporters who regard complaints about the garbage as per force racist is another illustration of how deranged identity politics have become. 

Neighborhood residents have had enough. One resident, Dave Herbst, is running for alder against the pro-garbage-in-your-lawn incumbent, Dorothy Krause.

On a beautiful Saturday morning, Herbst and three neighbors canvassed the neighborhood picking up litter, and breaking up an old, very heavy couch dumped in a neighborhood park next to a basketball court.

The residents expressed disgust with Alder Krause, seen as perpetually defending the vandalism and destruction of a neighborhood she was elected to defend.

Dave Herbst is no stranger to complex municipal policy questions, but he is making this simple fight for clean and safe neighborhood a major plank of his campaign.

Fed-up, these residents literally took an axe to an old couch, and broke it up for the City to pick up, after taking away the bulk.

The pictures and video below chronicle the events of Saturday morning and the larger fight to defend a neighborhood, homes and a way of life. 

 

A job well-done, and the fight continues as Dave enlists new help for the future: