A New Stadium For The 2017 Season?

[martyconlonontherun]

I kind of hope they use this angle to get the county involved. Have the tax be more downtown district focused where part of the tax covers county land getting cleaned up and sold with profits going back to the county. I know it is just shuffling money but it makes it sound better than a stadium tax. The bucks get there arena in the journal building and the land north of the current BC becomes open for development. In two years, the BC would then be torn down and you suddenly have a very valuable piece of land in between the hottest buildings in town. This will spur the economy more than just an isolated stadium sitting on park east.

[Benny B]

I kind of hope they use this angle to get the county involved. Have the tax be more downtown district focused where part of the tax covers county land getting cleaned up and sold with profits going back to the county. I know it is just shuffling money but it makes it sound better than a stadium tax. The bucks get there arena in the journal building and the land north of the current BC becomes open for development. In two years, the BC would then be torn down and you suddenly have a very valuable piece of land in between the hottest buildings in town. This will spur the economy more than just an isolated stadium sitting on park east.

Serious question --- Presuming the City of Milwaukee is already 100% on-board with the arena project, what marginal value would Milwaukee County add?

[dgies9156]

That seems like a perfect opportunity for some good old fashioned graft/kickbacks to connected insiders. Wow, the city of Milwaukee is even bad at being corrupt.

Oops, we just heard from the Chicago crowd.

Graft and corruption in construction and public works projects? Who would have thought it?

C'mon, you can't hold Milwaukee to Chicago and Illinois standards. That's like taking a House Little Leaguer and comparing him or her to Barry Bonds.

[jficke13]

Oops, we just heard from the Chicago crowd.

Graft and corruption in construction and public works projects? Who would have thought it?

C'mon, you can't hold Milwaukee to Chicago and Illinois standards. That's like taking a House Little Leaguer and comparing him or her to Barry Bonds.

well how good are they really? Blago and Jesse Jackson Jr. both just got caught.

[dgies9156]

well how good are they really? Blago and Jesse Jackson Jr. both just got caught.

If you think that's the extent of corruption in Illinois, I have a tollway between Wisconsin and Indiana I can sell you on the cheap.

Half the Chicago City Council gets indicted over an extended period of time. Our Speaker of the House is a shakedown artist where more campaign money than God. Need I go on?

[Spotcheck Billy]

If you think that's the extent of corruption in Illinois, I have a tollway between Wisconsin and Indiana I can sell you on the cheap.

Half the Chicago City Council gets indicted over an extended period of time. Our Speaker of the House is a shakedown artist where more campaign money than God. Need I go on?

Please do - I love this stuff!

[MDMU04]

Please do - I love this stuff!

Mike Madigan does not approve of further discussion related to this topic. Nothing to see here, please move along.

[warriorchick]

Mike Madigan does not approve of further discussion related to this topic. Nothing to see here, please move along.

Agreed.  I'd drop the subject if I were you...unless you want a call from our Attorney General.  What's her name again?  Oh, yeah....Lisa Madigan.

[Benny B]

Agreed.  I'd drop the subject if I were you...unless you want a call from our Attorney General.  What's her name again?  Oh, yeah....Lisa Madigan.

In the mafia, legend goes that you have to be a full-blooded Italian (or Sicilian, I forget which) in order to be a made man.  I suppose they figured it to be a loyalty thing, i.e. a half-blooded Italian might be more inclined to betray his family.

Fun fact... Lisa Madigan was adopted.  Drawing the mafia parallel (which in this case is apropos analogy with Mike Madigan)... if the evidence was strong, some believe that Lisa, although she would recuse herself from the case, would vigorously cooperate with any indictment and prosecution of her father on state charges.  Not that anyone I've spoken to thinks that she'd throw her dad under the bus, but her ability to seek higher office in Illinois (and beyond) is, counter-intuitively, being hindered by her father's role as speaker.

[mu-rara]

In the mafia, legend goes that you have to be a full-blooded Italian (or Sicilian, I forget which) in order to be a made man.  I suppose they figured it to be a loyalty thing, i.e. a half-blooded Italian might be more inclined to betray his family.

Fun fact... Lisa Madigan was adopted.  Drawing the mafia parallel (which in this case is apropos analogy with Mike Madigan)... if the evidence was strong, some believe that Lisa, although she would recuse herself from the case, would vigorously cooperate with any indictment and prosecution of her father on state charges.  Not that anyone I've spoken to thinks that she'd throw her dad under the bus, but her ability to seek higher office in Illinois (and beyond) is, counter-intuitively, being hindered by her father's role as speaker.

Vote for Alicia Florrick, pure as the wind driven snow.

[jficke13]

Maybe this just means that our Milwaukee pols should do an externship down in the Windy city so we can get the corruption bus moving on this new stadium already.

[Dr. Blackheart]

Agreed.  I'd drop the subject if I were you...unless you want a call from our Attorney General.  What's her name again?  Oh, yeah....Lisa Madigan.

Keefe is her husband's biggest fan, so she's got that going for her.

[mu03eng]

Vote for Alicia Florrick, pure as the wind driven snow.

Oh so you are the one that CBS keeps creating all these NCIS spin offs for???

[Dawson Rental]

Keefe is her husband's biggest fan, so she's got that going for her.

My first thought, does he mean her father?  Then I did a little research and I immediately got the joke.  I hear that Pat Byrnes is also very popular in the United Arab Emirates....