Milwaukee Politics
In the spring of 1996, White was elected to his first four-year term on the County Board of Supervisors in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He served three terms on the Board, serving at times as First Vice Chairman of the Board, Chairman of General Mitchell International Airport, the Milwaukee County Transit System, and the Milwaukee County Highway Commission. He was the only incumbent Milwaukee County supervisor to lose his office to a challenger in the April 1, 2008 Milwaukee elections; his failure to collect enough petition signatures to appear on the election ballot may have cost him his seat. Some speculate that White expected to secure the Johnson Institute presidency prior to the nomination paper deadline and was to make a retirement announcement.
As 1st District Milwaukee County supervisor, White sponsored and secured passage the United States' first local legislation to prohibit post-hurricane rebuild contractors from doing business with local government until Federal authorities removed them from the list of companies who took money but failed to help rebuild New Orleans and other hurricane ravaged Gulf region communities.
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