When Tim Bruer was first elected to the Madison Common Council in 1984, one of the council leaders told him he "had a district nobody else wanted." Alders came and went, in rapid succession, Bruer remembers. He took the comment as a challenge. Almost 30 years later, Bruer is still serving the south-side district, which he brags has seen unprecedented development and revitalization. "Now I have a district that everyone else should envy."
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