Miller Park 2.0...
Years ago, The Milwaukee Brewers (a losing team) demanded from Milwaukee a new stadium, or they'd leave.
Even our then-governor, Tommy Thompson, got into the fray when he said about Milwaukee taxpayers objecting to them paying for the stadium, "Stick it to 'em!"
Well, County Stadium (where a lot of the movie "Major League" was filmed,) was torn down, and Miller Park was built.
And the Brewers are still a losing team.
Now another losing team is blackmailing Milwaukee.
And the principal players are so corrupt they stink on ice.
Walker, Abele Want To Build Arena On The Backs Of The Poor
When retired US Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI) sold the Milwaukee Bucks, the National Basketball Association (NBA) approved the deal contingent upon a new arena being built by 2017. Wihout the new arena, the NBA would by the team from the new owners and sell it to the highest bidder, which would mean the team would probably leave Milwaukee.
Even though three of the major owners combined are worth $5 billion dollars, they were only willing to put in $250 million of their own money, about half of the projected cost of the new arena.
The land developers, commercial realtors and business groups immediately started putting pressure on state and local officials to pay for the rest of the cost. With the eager cooperation of the corporate media, the message quickly went from should the public help pay for the arena to how much should the public pay. To add pressure, they changed it from building a new arena to building a whole new arena district.
Scott Walker, as he usually does, caved in to the wealthy special interests, and came up with a cockamamie scheme on how he would borrow money to pay for the state's share - almost the same amount he cut from higher education - and the City of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County would chip in the rest.
When this plan appeared to be dead in the water, in comes Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele, a plutocrat who just happened to buy a $2 million condo next to the proposed development site, with an even worse idea. Abele's plan is to increase the county's share of the cost by handing over cases of uncollected taxes and court fines to mercenary debt collection agencies, who would add 15% to the money they collect from already indigent people. On top of that, Abele would sell county-owned land worth $9 million to the Bucks owners for a buck.
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/06/walker-abele-want-build-arena-backs-poor