Janesville resident William Beil end his run for Janesville City Council to prevent a 1998 arrest he calls a personal “mistake” from upstaging “important” issues the city faces.
Beil announced his decision after the Gazette reported that revealed he was arrested in Clark County in 1998 for disorderly conduct tied to a domestic violence incident.
According to the criminal complaint Beil was charged in July 1998 in Abbotsford with recklessly causing bodily harm to a child and disorderly conduct.
In a letter to the editor printed in The Gazette today, Beil wrote he thinks the episode that led to the arrest would have no bearing on how he would perform as a council member.
But Beil wrote he decided to pull out of the council race to ensure “the attention remains on the important issues and not on me or on selling newspapers.”
