Local Politics: Madison Mayor Dave Meets with MTI’s John Matthews & Former WEAC Director Mo Andrews

Jason Joyce’s useful look at Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’s weekly schedule often reveals a few nuggets of local political trivia. Today, the Mayor met with Madison Teachers, Inc. Executive Director John Matthews and former WEAC Executive Director Morris (Mo) Andrews.
Related links:

• City of Madison faces slower tax receipt growth
• Wisconsin state budget structural deficit: $1,682,000,000
• Madison School District’s 2008/2009 $367,806,712 budget (up from $217M in 1995, while enrollment has been flat the demographics have changed significantly)
• MTI has clashed in the past with WEAC
• Incoming Madison Superintendent Dan Nerad met with Mayor Dave in March.
• Retiring Superintendent Art Rainwater met with Dave in April.
• Madison Mayor proposes expansion of low income housing throughout Dane County.
• Morris Andrews searches: Clusty / Google / Live / WisPolitics
• Andrews previous efforts at reform of Wisconsin’s redistributed school tax dollars generated some controversy, as this letter from former Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist illustrates [WEAC press release]. Andrews is an interesting guy.
• 2001 “Morris Andrews Plan to replace shared revenues with a county sales tax increases.
• Mayor Dave’s campaign website.
• Jason Shephard: John Matthews has run Madison’s teachers union for 40 years. Is it time for a change?
• Wisconsin’s tax burden drops to 11th.

Might parents and taxpayers have a meeting?