It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, but Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker cut the budget of his political ally, Sheriff David Clarke. 

Clarke's actions gave Walker the ammunition necessary to make the cut.  Clarke's actions showed he had enough resources in his department, enough to even duplicate the efforts of the City of Milwaukee Police [...]

This week, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke asked the County Board's Finance committee to restore the cuts to his departmental budget that County Executive Scott Walker presented to the board in his annual budget.
Clarke didn't stop there.  He then asked for an inflationary increase.

Is this the same David Clarke who is against tax increases (which [...]

Get ready to absorb some interesting stats in the upcoming Sheriff's race.  Many traditional democratic groups will be crossing over to vote for Republican candidate for Sheriff, Don Holt.
Says one union official, "(Sheriff David) Clarke comes in and tells us that we're working men who shouldn't have to pay for all of these high costs [...]

It's a sad commentary on race relations in Milwaukee but I've heard rumblings of how David Clarke won the Sheriff's election and it's not pretty.
The grapevine is all a buzz that the mostly African-American north side came out pretty strong for Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke while the mostly white south side came out for [...]

According to the results posted on jsonline.com, 5,631 more votes were cast in the Democratic primary for Milwaukee County Sheriff than in the Dem primary for Milwaukee County District Attorney.  Where did those votes go?

The explanations given so far by the city of Milwaukee about why the turnout numbers were higher than the votes counted [...]

The Journal Sentinel seems to think they may have. The daily is reporting that "some voters" came to the polls to vote for Sheriff David Clarke, then jump party lines to vote for either Paul Bucher or J.B. Van Hollen in the GOP primary for Attorney General. These voters were "confused and frustrated" that the [...]