On February 22, 2024, Franklin Community News (FCN) published an article  entitled " Franklin Resident Alleges Mayor Nelson "Weaponized" Police Department as Political Payback" FCN has obtained video footage via an open records request from the February 22, 2024, Franklin Common Council Meeting that Mayor Nelson did indeed Weaponize the Franklin Police Department against Dr. Richard Busalacchi as Busalacchi had alleged.  The video received was  before the 6:30pm start time of the meeting from three different camera angles.  Video 1 shows Nelson approaching Officer Thompson at about 6:20pm before the Common Council meeting at 6:30pm.  Busalacchi walked in, the  Mayor said Hi Mr. Busalacchi, shook his hand, and made a comment similar to “I hope you are going to behave tonight”.  Busalacchi responded thinking the comments were intended to be funny “Maybe”.  Busalacch then went and took a seat in the audience as Busalacchi intended to make public comm...

  Franklin Community News Headlines Voters in Franklin Get a Three for One in Mayoral Election - Welcome "Rat Pack" "Rat Pack" Sends C lassless, Arrogant, Despicable Text to Olson and His Campaign Advisors on Election Night Voters in Franklin get a Three for One in Mayoral Election - Welcome "Rat Pack" The Tuesday, April 4th hotly contested mayoral election came to an end with absentee ballots 4500, still being counted at 10:30pm and the challenger John Nelson ahead of incumbent Steve Olson by 1000 votes.  Late in the evening when all the ballots were reported according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel " Nelson received 6,703 votes (56.59%) while Olson received 5,099 votes (43.05%). There were 43 write-in votes accounting for the remaining 0.36% of votes cast. Franklin had a 55.37% voter turnout." Franklin voters have cause to be worried and concerned.  Sometimes change is good and warranted for the right reasons.  However, in this particular in...

After indicating no such records exist, the Town of Waterford Police Department released 94 responsive open records pertaining to Franklin Mayor, John Nelson , who is also a Full-time Lieutenant for the Waterford Police Department. What information do the responsive records provided by the Waterford Police Department illustrate: Mayor Nelson of Franklin is using his Waterford Police Government email address for Franklin Public Business. Mayor Nelson is Cc: many of his Franklin emails to the Waterford Police Government email. Mayor Nelson and his Mayoral election campaign committee of County Supervisor Steve Taylor, Mike Zimmerman Rock CEO, and former Franklin Alderwoman Kristin Wilhelm appeared to be completing final edits on Nelson's campaign literature, and Nelson cc: email to his Waterfordpd email account. It appeared that on more than one occasion Alderwoman Eichmann would send Franklin business to the mayor's Waterford Police email. Many of the emails contained Nelson'...

 You just can't make this stuff up.   No matter what the critics believe, it's all true! The Town of Waterford Police Department may have been working with John Nelson, Mayor of Franklin, to intentionally and purposefully withhold responsive records under the Wisconsin Open Records Law.  John Nelson is a full-time Lieutenant for the Town of Waterford Police Department. FCN previously reported on April 3, 2024 , that Neilson   violated the Wisconsin Open  Records Law by not providing records to his personal ( John.1968Nelson@gmail.com )  email account and the ( jnelson@waterfordpd.com )  email account.  The Mayor denied having records as part of a request from Franklin Community News (FCN) when in fact he knowingly had the records. FCN had the records in its possession from a different request, the same records the Mayor denied having in his personal accounts in his official response. As  Franklin Community News reported on March 27, 2024...

  Within the last two days, Franklin Community News (FCN) has been removed and banned from a new start-up discussion group in addition to the Franklin Group to Rule Them All. This appears to be continued censorship as a result of FCN exposing the corruption of Franklin Mayor John Nelson and his ties to Mike Zimmerman, Owner/CEO of ROC Ventures, and Steve Taylor, Milwaukee County Supervisor and Executive Director of ROC Foundation. Certain members in this community want to believe FCN is all the work for former Mayor Steve Olson and is somehow tied to him, and he is the wizard behind the curtain. Not true False.....but good conspiracy theory. There are some in this community who continue to question the legitimacy of what FCN is providing and call it a lie.  However, whenever pressed about what is NOT Factual, NO ONE can provide a direct response and point out one piece of information that is not FACT.  All blogs are based on Open Records or first-hand sources. Some call t...