Frank Joseph "Joe" Sensenbrenner Jr. (born 1948) is a retired American attorney, management consultant, and Democratic politician.
[2] Before his third year in law school, in the summer of 1972, Sensenbrenner went to work in the Wisconsin state government as an intern for the Health Policy and Planning Task Force.
[4] He served with Lucey until his resignation, and then returned to the Wisconsin Department of Justice as an Assistant Attorney General for local government issues.
[3] Sensenbrenner's campaign emphasized his experience in state government and management skills, and, in the crowded 8-person nonpartisan primary, he came in a close second to former alderman and past mayoral candidate Robert Reynolds.
He faced attacks throughout the race on the prioritization of the convention center, seen as a luxury pavilion for the city's elites, over the interests and services for working class downtown and near-downtown districts.
[11] Also on the April election ballot was a city referendum for raising property taxes to pay for Sensenbrenner's proposed convention center.
Outside of politics and business, Sensenbrenner became involved in several nonprofits, serving on the boards of the Grassroots Leadership College, the Bartell Community Theatre, and the Urban Open Space Foundation, which pushed the development of Madison's McPike Park in 1999.