Your new PIO Racine.

We told you about Racine's new Public Information Officer a few weeks ago. Mark Eickhorst is a long time associate of Mayor Dickert. You tell me, is this release promoting the City or promoting the Mayor?

Mayor John Dickert’s Efforts Providing Return on Investment

RACINE – Mayor John Dickert’s aggressive approach in Madison and Washington
D.C. has begun to payoff for the City of Racine.

The City of Racine has just announced an additional $1.2 million in NSP funds as a result of the Mayor’s aggressive approach to State and Federal funding.

“I promised the people of Racine that I would keep knocking on the doors of
government until I received the funds needed to rebuild our city and those efforts have paid off,” said Dickert.

The City’s work to coordinate their housing programs for efficiency and to create a target area is what helped win the award. That, coupled with the work being done by The Department of City Development is definitely producing a return on investment.

On Tuesday, the Mayor will announce details on additional funding as well as a new initiative to bring jobs back to Racine workers.

To this observer's view it looks like Mark Eickhorst is promoting Mayor Dickert, not the City of Racine. If this is going to be the tone of his press releases Eickhorst should be paid out of Mayor Dickert's campaign funds not out of taxpayer monies.