Milwaukee Alderman McGee/JacksonNot the First Politician to be Someone Other than Who He Claimed

The story of Milwaukee's most notorious alderman gets more and more strange.

McGee asks court for name change
Alderman asks court to change his name — to McGee
The latest news about Ald. Mike McGee is that he's not Mike McGee. According to a notarized petition filed Wednesday in the county Clerk of Courts office, the man elected to office as Michael Imanu McGee - and who identifies himself on his voice mail message as Mike McGee Jr. - has really been Michael Imanu Jackson for his 36 years.

The name-change petition, which cost $158.50 to file, asks that the alderman's name become, legally, Michael Imanu McGee.

It is the latest unusual situation in what has been an extraordinary few weeks for the outspoken politician. He was arrested last week in a Milwaukee County courtroom, accused of threatening a woman who has a restraining order against him and who says she is pregnant by him. In April, while trying to obtain a restraining order against the woman, Kimley Rucker, McGee told a court commissioner under oath he had never had an e-mail address that his wife later testified he had used for
years.

Besides being weird, there is something not right here. He says he has no birth certificate listing his name as Michael Jackson. He says his driver's license and social security card refer to him as McGee.

So why the need for a name change?

There must be more to this story.

Stay tuned.