Local business owner Chris Leffler said he supports State Assembly candidate Bonnie Lee because she is asking businesses the questions that need to be asked.
Leffler owns Leff’s Lucky Town in Wauwatosa.
“I’m a small business owner and I support Bonnie Lee," Leffler said in a YouTube clip. "She’s out here in the front lines what’s going on, asking the businesses the questions that need to be asked, very conscientious and aware of public safety and what that means to our community, our families, our businesses."
Leffler said Lee is looking at the economic hardships that business owners are facing and trying to turn those hardships around.
"Understanding that not only that as a business owner I’m trying to keep my business alive but that that goes down to all my employees, to my hosts, to the dishwashers — every single person that works here. It’s so important that everybody’s able to survive through this pandemic," Leffler said.
Lee, a Republican, is running for State Assembly to represent District 14 against Democrat Robyn Vining.
Wauwatosa has suffered much civil unrest lately after a city police officer, Joseph Mensah, was cleared of all charges in the death of 17-year-old Alvin Cole.
Mensah, a black officer, shot Cole, who was also black, back in February. The teenager was armed.
"There is sufficient evidence that Officer Mensah had an actual subjective belief that deadly force was necessary and that belief was objectively reasonable," Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm said, Patch reported. "I do not believe that the State could disprove self-defense or defense of others in this case and therefore could not meet the burden required to charge Officer Mensah."
Earlier this month, the Milwaukee police chief said there was no reason Mensah should’ve been fired.
The Cole family’s attorney said Mensah was unfit and urged for him to be fired.
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