State Rep. Pedro Colon says he will challenge Milwaukee City Atty. Grant Langley in the spring elections.

His announcement contained an interesting criticism of Langley, the long-time incumbent:

The City Attorney has the potential to be a partner to the District Attorney in the fight against crime. That starts with leadership. It means upholding the highest possible standards for integrity. Instead, the current City Attorney has been AWOL from the fight to stop paying police officers who are convicted of felonies.

There's very little the city attorney could do about this, aside from writing a letter to legislators or appearing at a legislative hearing.

You see, the law requiring the city to pay those fired cops is a state law. To get rid of it, the state legislature has to repeal it.

Pedro Colon is part of the Democratic leadership in the state Assembly, which, last we knew, was one house of the legislature.

Is Colon saying he's failed to get that law repealed because he didn't have a letter from Grant Langley?  Is he saying that if he's city attorney he can do more about that legislative issue than he can as a legislator?  Hard to swallow.