THOSE DETAILS WHEN WE GET THEM AS WELL. HANNAH HILYARD REPORTING LIVE IN MILWAUKEE. COMMITMENT 2024 COVERAGE NOW A LITTLE MORE THAN TWO MONTHS BEFORE THE SPRING PRIMARY, CONTROVERSY IN THE RACE FOR MILWAUKEE ALDERMAN. AS 12 NEWS CYREIA SANDLIN REPORTS, THE WIFE OF LONGTIME ALDERMAN BOB BAUMAN IS LIGHTING UP SOCIAL MEDIA WITH CONTROVERSIAL COMMENTS ON THE FACEBOOK PAGE OF HER HUSBAND’S POTENTIAL OPPONENT. A FACEBOOK ANNOUNCEMENT BY A POTENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR MILWAUKEE ALDERMAN TURNED INTO A FIRESTORM THIS WEEK. IT WAS JUST A BUNCH OF THINGS THAT WAS POSTED ON MY PAGE. RAINIO BOYNES WANTS TO UNSEAT ALDERMAN BOB BAUMAN, WHOSE DISTRICT COVERS DOWNTOWN AND THE WEST SIDE. HIS POST WAS FILLED WITH COMMENTS FROM BAUMAN’S WIFE, TAMMY BANSEMER, BOEING’S IS BLACK, BANSEMER IS WHITE. IN ONE POST, SHE SAID, QUOTE, I’M JUST BEING HONEST BECAUSE WHITE PEOPLE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD ARE AFRAID TO BE HONEST BECAUSE THEY FEAR BEING SHOT. SHE WENT ON TO SAY, QUOTE, BE THE NEW VOICE. CLEAN UP THIS NEIGHBORHOOD WITH YOUR AFRICAN-AMERICAN CONSTITUENT VOTES. BAUMANN SAYS HE WAS IN SHOCK. I DID GET A SCREENSHOT AND I WAS HORRIFIED AND I LITERALLY WOKE HER UP AND I SAID, WHAT IS THIS? TAKE THIS STUFF DOWN IMMEDIATELY. THIS IS ABSURD. AND I’VE LIVED IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD 26 YEARS. I’M HAPPY THERE. I FEEL SAFE THERE. I WOULDN’T BE LIVING THERE STILL IF I FELT UNSAFE. AND THEY’RE JUST NOT MY SENTIMENTS. AND I WAS LITERALLY HORRIFIED, BOYNE SAYS BAZEMORE’S STATEMENTS DON’T ALIGN WITH THE FEELINGS OF THE COMMUNITY. THEY DO COME OFF LIKE RACIALLY MOTIVATED UNDERTONES. BUT FROM WHAT I’M HEARING, SHE’S SAYING THAT’S NOT HOW SHE MEANT IT. WHAT I WILL SAY IS I DON’T BELIEVE THAT THAT IS THE THE THOUGHT PROCESS OF EVERYBODY THAT LIVES IN THE DISTRICT. WE ASKED BAUMAN ABOUT THOSE RACIAL UNDERTONES. DO YOU THINK YOUR WIFE WAS RACIST IN DOING THIS? I DON’T THINK SHE IS. I KNOW SHE’S NOT IN HER HEART, BUT I CAN SEE WHERE THOSE WORDS COME OFF THAT WAY IN BOYNE TOPS, TO PUT THIS BEHIND HIM TO WIN THE ELECTION. I DON’T WANT TO FOCUS TOO MUCH ON THAT, BUT FOCUS ON THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE IN THE FOURTH DISTRICT. AND CYREIA JOINS US NOW. CYREIA, WE HAVEN’T HEARD FROM TAMMY BANSEMER YET. PATRICK. WE DID REACH OUT TO HER VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. WE ASKED THE ALDERMAN FOR HER TO COMMENT. WE HAVE HAVE NOT HEARD BACK CYREIA SANDLIN IN THE NEWSROOM TONIGHT, BAUMAN HAS REPRESENTED MILWAUKEE’S FOURTH DISTRICT SINCE 2004. THE DISTRICT INCLUDES DOWNTOWN THE NEAR WEST SIDE BY MARQUETTE MILLER AND HARLEY AND THE LOWER EAST SIDE, INCLUDING PROSPECT