Here are the survey responses from the candidates running for Town of Menasha Board District 3.

Nick Gebert

Age: 33

Political experience: Town supervisor 2013-2015

Why are you running? For too long, residents have had little say in how their town is run. The establishment has for decades tried to figure out how to incorporate our town. They have now resorted to intimidation to get what they want. They are telling residents that the city of Menasha is going to annex our town. They are trying to use the expiration of our border agreement in 2018 as a reason to incorporate. They have lied to the residents that the city can just come over and take over our town. That could not be further from the truth.

What are the key issues? The state of Wisconsin does not allow cities to come in a just take over a town without residents' say. For this incorporation to work, we will have to divide our town in half, and the establishment has failed to tell the west side residents that they will have to subsidize the east side of town costs for this to be approved. The incorporation is a way to get complete budget control so they can spend even more on unnecessary projects, stormwater ponds and a park by the retired dump. Keep taxes low. Vote no!

Gregory Ziegler (incumbent)

Address: 662 La Quinta Court, Neenah

Age: 62

Political experience: Almost six years as Town of Menasha supervisor

Why are you running? Reasons for running include: continually working on keeping property taxes down while still providing  exceptional services to our businesses and residence. Hold the town accountable for its expenses and projects and diligently working on the incorporation efforts to prevent the never-ending annexations that are occurring regularly from other local municipalities. Incorporating into a village will finally prevent the loss of town properties being taken.

What are the key issues? The main issue for this election is the incorporation into the village of Fox Crossing. My opponent is claiming that the incorporation will cause taxes to increase substantially. The truth is the reason other local municipalities like Kimberly, Little Chute and Harrison incorporated was not to have their taxes increase — its was to keep their tax base from being annexed by other municipalities "to keep taxes low!"

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