GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt lashed out at a trio of city council members during a recent Political Radar podcast, eluding that some aldermen may be dealing with mental health problems or broken home lives.
“If I hammer someone down and they speak over me or they make these, just terrible comments like a punk kid would on a playground, I just can’t believe he says those kinds of things,” Schmitt said. “But then sometimes I write it off to mental health cause I hear he’s got, you know, some of these guys have some issues, and then if you look at their personal lives, their broken…and not that I feel sorry for them, but that gives me a little bit of a framework and that’s how I can deal with it.”
Green Bay Alderman Chris Wery spoke with WTAQ’s Jerry Bader Thursday, saying that his wife broke down in tears after hearing what Schmitt had to say.
“When I played it for her, she broke down crying because she thought it meant her, that somehow she’s making our family broken. She really had a tough, tough time with it,” said Wery.
Wery has a message for Schmitt.
“We’re not broken. We’re strong in faith and family. Jim, I’m in politics…criticize my positions. Leave my family out of it.”
The city council will be holding a special meeting Monday at city hall to review a request for Schmitt’s removal from office over his conviction of campaign finance law violations.
In a court filing Thursday, the mayor asked a judge to stop that proceeding from happening.
