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Understanding Madison's City Council Races
Opinion to Four Lakes Voices
Editor Four Lakes Voices & Mike Herl
March 31, 2025
Most folks never really get to know their local alder for their district who represents them in the Madison City Council, or have an idea about where they stand on local issues. In the development game, we as developers and real estate brokers, need to know where the alders stand on developments and redevelopments that fall inside the city limits of Madison. |  |
Outside of most of them being social justice warriors, we need to know if each member possesses any common sense what-so-ever. The following “suggestions” are NOT endorsements, they are the folks that I believe will be less harmful in the ways of bettering Madison.
| District 1 | John Duncan |
| District 2 | Julianna Bennett |
| District 3 | Derek Field |
| District 4 | Mike Verveer (but Elias Tsarovsky has some good points) |
| District 5 | Regina Vidaver |
| District 6 | Davy Mayer |
| District 7 | Badri Lankella |
| District 8 | MGR Govindarajan |
| District 9 | Nikki Conklin |
| District 10 | Yannette Figueroa Cole |
| District 11 | Bill Tischler |
| District 12 | Julia Matthews |
| District 13 | Flip a coin between Tag Evers and Robert Luther, I can’t make a recommendation here. |
| District 14 | Noah Lieberman |
| District 15 | Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford |
| District 16 | Jael Currie |
| District 17 | Sabrina Madison |
| District 18 | Both Charles Myadze and Carmella Glenn have good qualities |
| District 19 | John Gueguierre |
| District 20 | Flip a coin between Barbara McKinney and Sammy Khilji, I can’t make any recommendation here. |
I hope your candidates have been out knocking on doors lately so you can make your own determination. If not, the recommended names above should be helpful to you.
Get out and vote on Tuesday folks!
Mike Herl has been a life-long Republican and a member of the local Republican Party of Dane County (RPDC) for the past 30 years. He served as its chairman from 2008 through 2014. Mike has been in the commercial real estate and development business for the past 23 years and is the founding partner of Madison Commercial Real Estate LLC in Madison.