Where’s Waldo? Superior’s Missing Council Votes—and the 4 Civil Rights Lawsuits That Aren’t Hiding Nearly as Well
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Superior’s Democracy: Now With 4 Civil Rights Lawsuits and Zero Voting Transparency
Welcome back to Superior, Wisconsin — the city that can find four separate ways to trigger civil rights lawsuits but can’t find one functional way to tell the public how their own council votes.
Trying to track council votes on the city’s website is like flipping through a Where’s Waldo book printed by a drunk Xerox machine. Except at least Waldo eventually shows up. City council votes? Not even in the background next to the random guy in scuba gear.
And now?
Four open civil rights lawsuits are dangling over City Hall like the Sword of Damocles if that sword were forged in the fires of bureaucratic incompetence and bad HR decisions. Transparency? Buddy, Superior is so allergic to transparency it should carry an EpiPen.
The Civil Rights Four-Pack: Not the Sampler Anyone Wanted
While the city keeps its voting records hidden like state secrets, it turns out they’ve been a little too visible in federal court. Four active civil rights lawsuits involving the city and its leadership.
Four. That’s not a coincidence — that’s a trend. Some cities collect awards. Others collect lawsuits like they’re Beanie Babies from 1997.
Mayor Jim Paine, Rebecca “It’s Chief of Staff, Stop Calling Me Secretary” Scherf, and the rest of the Waldo Council are now starring in their own legal miniseries, coming soon to absolutely no streaming service because the city will probably hide that too.
Democracy Can’t Work if the Receipts Are Missing
Founding Fathers weren’t perfect — shocker — but they were crystal clear about transparency and accountability. And if they saw Superior today, they’d slap the laptop out of Jim Paine’s hands and say, “What are you doing, son?”
Here are a few real quotes from our forefathers:
Abraham Lincoln:
“Let the people know the facts, and the country will be safe.
Thomas Jefferson:
“When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself public property.
A government that hides voting records but manages to rack up civil rights lawsuits has the same energy as a guy who swears he’s innocent but won’t let anyone check his trunk.
The Cast of Characters Who Can’t Seem to Leave a Paper Trail
Mayor Jim Paine
The man, the myth, the civil rights defendant (allegedly).
Waldo’s rebellious cousin who would rather build a grain elevator museum than show you a simple vote tally.
Rebecca Scherf
If gatekeeping information were an Olympic sport, she’d have more gold than Michael Phelps.
Ask for public records; she hands you a Sudoku puzzle.
Nicholas Ledin
Teacher by day, transparency escape artist by night.
Tylor Elm
Mayor Jim’s official political sidekick. If Jim voted to replace city hall with a Chuck E. Cheese, Tylor would ask, “Can I cut the ribbon?”
Sarah Anderson
Still trying to convince people she’s not secretly the mayor’s wife’s seat warmer.
Garner “Mandate” Moffat
Got elected with fewer people than a mid-’90s LAN party but still walks around like FDR.
Jack Sweeney
Lost his financial instincts the minute “free federal money for lead pipes” scared him.
Brent Fennessy
District 5’s human screensaver.
Rubber Stamp Ruth Ludwig
She doesn’t vote; she echoes.
Mike Herrick
Represents West Superior, according to the same website that can’t load basic voting data. So… consider that.
Mark Johnson
Verified alive. Working on verifying functional.
Lindsey “I Love Grain Elevators” Graskey
Violates open meetings laws with the casual ease of someone ordering Taco Bell at 2 AM.
Somehow city council president.
Somehow not surprised.
Superior’s Website: A Cold, Dead Tundra of Missing Info
Finding the voting record should be the easiest part of local government.
Instead, the city’s website is like a haunted GeoCities page built during the Macarena era. Nothing works, everything is broken, and the ghosts of deleted agendas whisper, “Try again later.”
Final Crossing Signal
Superior’s government isn’t just hiding votes — it’s hiding from accountability.
Four civil rights lawsuits. Zero voting transparency. A leadership team ducking responsibility like they’re starring in the world’s worst reboot of The Fugitive.
If democracy is a team sport, Superior’s playing dodgeball.
And they’re dodging you.
Mic Drop:
When your city has four civil rights lawsuits pending but still can’t put a voting chart online, you’re not dealing with a government… you’re dealing with a comedy troupe that doesn’t know it’s performing.
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