20 March 2019
By Mica Soellner
Appleton Post-Crescent
"Milwaukee was the birthplace of "sewer socialism," a
movement that sought to clean up neighborhoods and factories with new
sanitation systems, municipal water and power systems, local parks and
better public education systems.
The city has also
elected three socialist mayors in its history — Emil Seidel, Daniel Hoan
and Frank Zeidler— as well as Victor Berger to the House of
Representatives, making him the first socialist to serve in Congress in
1910. Zeidler ran for president in 1976 as the candidate for the
Socialist Party USA...."
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