Coffee with the Candidates: Cavalier Johnson [Video]

12 News is getting coffee with the candidates running for Milwaukee Mayor and City Attorney in April’s spring election. In the race for mayor, incumbent Cavalier Johnson is facing challenger David King. 12 News anchor Gerron Jordan (GJ) talked with Johnson (CJ) about his vision for the city if he’s re-elected. GJ: Why do you want this job? CJ: I want this job because I care about Milwaukee. I really do. I mean, I started off as a 14-year-old kid volunteering in Milwaukee and trying to help seniors rake leaves and shovel snow and come to find out some years later, when I went off to the University of Wisconsin- Madison and became the first person in my family go to college, I found that I can go into a career in politics where I actually had an opportunity- a career where I got to wake up every day to …