Politics
Wisconsin Assembly to vote on using $546 million in taxpayer money to renovate Brewers stadium
The Wisconsin state Assembly is set to vote Tuesday on using $546 million in taxpayer money to renovate the Milwaukee Brewers stadium.
The GOP-created plan was announced a month ago, and has had no public input.
Polling suggests that 55 percent of Wisconsinites are against taxpayer dollars to fund the construction. The Brewers would contribute $100 million.
The stadium is owned by the state and leased to the Brewers. That lease runs out in 2030, but the Republican plan will extend it through 2050.
It extends the lease seven years longer than Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ plan from his state budget.
Those extra seven years, however, cost $256 million — or $37 million per added year — if you’re just comparing totals.
Evers’ plan was to use $290 million from Wisconsin’s $7 billion budget surplus. Republicans tossed that out of the state budget, saying they could do better.
American Family Field was completed in 2001 and cost the state $400 million to build.
The deal is likely to pass the Assembly but would face more scrutiny in the state Senate for a vote next week.
David Lamb
October 17, 2023 at 4:57 am
I’ll say one thing Wisconsin knows how to piss away millions,yet will not legalize marijuana.Its called ass-backwsrds.
Harvey Kofnetka
October 17, 2023 at 6:00 am
No No No on using taxpayer money. The Brewers players are paid way to much to begin with. Management trades good players off as dumb decisions. Way too much money in all sports. Here we go again just like the Braves debockle. Milwaukee is becoming CRIME CITY. Most people don’t like coming there as being unsafe. Traffic is terrible. It’s been said baseball is AMERICAN’s traditional sport, so why are there so many foreigners playing. Plus interpreters are hired as players don’t speak English? All sports are out of control period.