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@Iamablur
Gary Witt
2 years
Alex Jones/Info Wars to pay almost $1billion to Sandy Hook families for his lies What we are seeing is what happens when the MAGA narrative meets a legal system that requires sworn testimony and recognizes perjury as a crime. ⁦ @HC_Richardson
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Gary Witt
3 months
Day 2 message to RNC Tag your favorite locally owned restaurants, and favorite chefs in Milwaukee!
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3 years
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Gary Witt
3 months
Our 3rd and final message to GOP Convention attendees @PabstTheaterGRP ♥️ Repost if you love Milwaukee!♥️
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Gary Witt
1 year
Property taxes paid for homes valued at $2.5 million in different cities per @nytimes : Denver $6,921 Seattle $12,647 Kittery Point Maine $15,196 Milwaukee $50,572
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Gary Witt
4 years
Ohhh @profgalloway you are back. ‘The objective of higher education in our society isn’t to take remarkable kids & turn them into billionaires. It’s to take unremarkable kids & give them remarkable opportunities.’ @karaswisher Missed this @PivotSchooled
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Gary Witt
4 months
"The RNC’s never been in the business of telling business owners how to market or run their companies," RNC sources told WISN News. The contract we signed with the RNC, obligated us to hold 7/14 thru 7/19 only for use by the RNC. We couldn’t book any other shows. @WISN12News
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Gary Witt
3 months
Day 3 message to the RNC. This city has so much good. What’s your favorite beach in Milwaukee? (No the lights aren’t out. They’re just flashing…)
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Gary Witt
5 years
The DNC in MKE should be 100% canceled. DNC should commit that the convention will happen in MKE in 2024. Anything else will be a crushing blow to MKE. Cancel and rebook. @AlexanderLasry @MayorOfMKE @MKEBizJournal @UrbanMilwaukee @DNC @BizTimesMedia @MikeGousha
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Gary Witt
3 years
EVERY business that invites customers inside should require proof of vaccination for entry The way to increase vaccinations The way to stop it all from getting shut down again #controlyourfuture @MKEBizJournal @BizTimesMedia @UrbanMilwaukee @DanRShafer @pietlevy @fox6now @tmj4
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Gary Witt
4 years
@Wolfiesmom @SenatorWicker Now you're taking credit? You voted NO: “The bill is full of unnecessary spending that will overheat the economy at a time when infections are dropping nationwide. This is no way to govern, and I strongly oppose this legislation.” Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi.
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Gary Witt
3 years
@DaleKooyenga Without @cityofmilwaukee , your freakishly lacking in diversity city of Brookfield would be Lusk, Wyoming. Now stop your political grandstanding and just go back to outright stealing the revenue from Milwakuee, the economic engine of the state.
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Gary Witt
1 year
Stop complaining about the sales tax. Most major metropolitan areas similar in size to Milwaukee have their own sales tax. In fact, Milwaukee will be on par if not below most other city sales taxes.
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Gary Witt
4 years
If you want to define MKE's importance to the state, just look at the federal stimulus amounts that are being distributed to each city: In Wisco, MKE receives the most — at $406 million. Madison got $49 million. Now give us the ability to raise our own sales tax @repvos
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Gary Witt
5 years
The growth-at-all-costs mentality of Silicon Valley, as it turns out, has costs. @karaswisher
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Gary Witt
2 years
It’s never been easier for the rich to evade taxes Audit rates by the IRS have tumbled the last 6 decades with the IRS’s budget slashed by 60%. The U.S. misses out on over $600 billion in unpaid taxes annually, the wealthiest 1% a 3rd of it @profgalloway
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Gary Witt
3 years
79% of Milwaukeeans do not care who their next Mayor is. (21% voter turn out) We are a city adrift. @DanRShafer @milwaukeerecord
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Gary Witt
3 years
@thedavidcrosby You wouldn’t have thought that in 1969.
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Gary Witt
3 years
Total votes cast in Mayoral election. 2022 Johnson vs Donovan 86,686 2016 Barrett vs Donovan 158,573 One of @CavalierJohnson ’s jobs will be to get citizens involved in their city again.
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Gary Witt
3 years
@JeremyLFojut What’s also annoying is that there is nothing on the Riverwalk. No attractions. No food carts. No artists painting portraits or skylines. No vendors selling anything. No musicians busking. Nothing. It’s an incomplete thought like most MKE ideas.
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Gary Witt
3 years
@SenStroebel In 2021, Stroebel introduced legislation in WI to restrict voting rights, part of a wider nationwide push by Republicans to make it more difficult to vote. Stroebel's legislation would impose stricter requirements on voters who are "indefinitely confined" due to age or disability
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Gary Witt
3 years
Thanks to @thehopmke for a fun morning ride. Please expand this thing @MKE_CC @milwaukeedpw . It’s so good for our city. @BizTimesMedia @MKEBizJournal @milwaukeerecord @DanRShafer
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Gary Witt
2 years
The private sector has added back more than 100% of the jobs that were cut during the pandemic. But the government has had a tougher time hiring. By the end of June, the public sector had recovered just 54.6% of jobs lost. @profgalloway
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Gary Witt
5 years
@patrickdmarley @SykesCharlie I was kind of hoping this deep into the lockdown, we would have started to talk about how we could make the world a little better when this is over, rather than just revert to the unsustainable shit-show we’ve been trapped in for decades
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Gary Witt
4 years
CNN has decided not to take over Turner Hall for DNC. It’s not too late to rally for the DNC in MKE in 2024. If our leaders won’t demand it, you and I should #DNCMKE24 @MKEBizJournal @BillGlauber @MikeGousha @OmarMKE1 @ShermanJeff @BizTimesMedia @620wtmj @UrbanMilwaukee
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Gary Witt
4 years
Sales Tax Rate for MKE is 5.6%. The US avg is 7.3%. We could add $350 million annually to our city’s bottom line. Currently the city makes $0 from sales tax. How would you spend $350 million? #fixmilwaukee @BizTimesMedia @MKEBizJournal @UrbanMilwaukee @wuwmlakeeffect @NEWaukee
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Gary Witt
3 years
Close Brady Street for cars. Make it a pedestrian only street. Adapt and grow Milwaukee. New clothing and accessory stores adding to the mix of businesses on Milwaukee's Brady Street
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Gary Witt
2 years
@theirishokie When Gov. Rick Scott was CEO of Columbia/HCA, the hospital company was fined $1.7 billion for Medicare fraud. He oversaw the largest Medicare fraud in U.S. history & was fired. His penalty? $300 million in stock, a $5.1 million severance. #rickscottyoucheatyoulieandoldpeopledie
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Gary Witt
3 years
@RepBryanSteil It's not working anymore. Throw out the old playbook. Maybe you could start thinking about Wisconsin.
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Gary Witt
3 years
When it really matters, they were/are there for us and for country. In their honor we should all practice civility in our discourse. Thank you and proud of your commitment Alex Witt
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Gary Witt
3 years
Ask me no questions and I’ll tell you no lies. That’s the end of my story, now I gotta go, goodbye……………
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Gary Witt
4 years
Common Council approves mask mandate for City of Milwaukee 15 to ZERO So many great Milwaukee businesses helped to make this possible. You know who you are. Thanks go out to you and to @AlderMarina14
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Gary Witt
3 years
And we’re back. Thank you @nivassoc . Once we were one. Now we are all. #family #Team And thanks for an amazing sold out return to live music @rhettmiller
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Gary Witt
4 years
Attention legislators and citizens: Spend money on infrastructure!Every city is one weather event away from being Texas in power, water, sewer. Cities and counties have been $ starved for years.
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Gary Witt
5 years
@SRuhle @SBAgov @realDonaldTrump @stevenmnuchin1 Loan is submitted and confirmed as of 8p Friday night. Accepted? No idea. The rules of the loan changed over a dozen times in the last week.
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Gary Witt
3 years
Hey @MKEBizJournal , @BizTimesMedia , @fox6now , @UrbanMilwaukee @DanRShafer @milwaukeerecord @tmj4 @visitmilwaukee pretend it's a convention with around 10k people who come to @cityofmilwaukee from 49 states & spend 4 days here. Hmmm... maybe @PabstTheaterGRP are a real business?
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Pabst Theater Group
3 years
Ya'll ready? @WidespreadPanic returns to the Riverside Theater for 4 nights starting TOMORROW! #panictourmilwookie
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Gary Witt
3 months
Todays message to the @GOPconvention . #changeseveryday
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Gary Witt
4 months
@GOP I would call that obligated @DanRShafer @ByMattWild
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Gary Witt
3 years
When your mom dies, you feel like the rest of the world should stop. Something inside of you dies along with her and… something new is born. July 5th. Will always be a special day.
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Gary Witt
3 years
Restaurant closures are due to the amount of the Restaurant Revitalization Fund being 1/5 of what was requested. NIVA received 100% of requested amount and had zero closures. Don’t make proof of vaccination the bad guy @MKEBizJournal . @MMAC_Chamber @BizTimesMedia
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Gary Witt
3 years
Happy @Summerfest is returning. But city of MKE LOSES MONEY during it EVERY YEAR & that’s why your property taxes go up! YOU CAN CHANGE THIS. Tell your local rep to let MKE raise its sales tax, generate X$100MM & LOWER your prop taxes @MKEBizJournal @BizTimesMedia @MMAC_Chamber
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Gary Witt
5 years
Dear Milwaukee restaurants and cafes that close on Sunday nights. Please try harder. @OnMilwaukee @MKEBizJournal @UrbanMilwaukee @BizTimesMedia @visitmilwaukee @bethweirick
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Gary Witt
4 years
@DanRShafer @djbistro @dandanmke I believe that this amazing industry is being tricked into using all of their creativity and entrepreneurial skills to find ways to survive at 25% when they should be closed and spending 100% of their time and skills demanding support from the federal government.
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Gary Witt
4 years
@scotte_allen @GovEvers Pssst. The WI unemployment system software is from 1974. Ex Guv Walker turned down upgrading it in 2012. Walker also added rules to stop some from being eligible to save money. Those 2 things are what has caused the problem we are having in Pandemic.
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Gary Witt
4 years
@RepBryanSteil @RepGrothman In short: Most of the estimated jobs in the USA were temporary. Why are you trying to fan the fires of division? You see what that created in DC. There is very little truth here. Only headlines. Please be a part of bringing us together and make us a stronger as a country.
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Gary Witt
7 months
The song. The playing. The video. Sooo good. Thank you @Gvc3Casale for a wonderfully creative video. The video the band deserved. @rushtheband Rush - Mystic Rhythms
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Gary Witt
4 years
1. if every group/business with a database & every civic leader used their voice 2 tell the DNC 2 return 2 MKE in 2024 the @DNC would have 2 make this decision publicly @MKEBizJournal @BizTimesMedia @onmilwaukee @UrbanMilwaukee @MikeGousha @milwaukeerecord @620wtmj @Fox6TedPerry
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Gary Witt
3 years
Chicago invested $33 million dollars in ‘the Bean’ sculpture. What’s the Bean’s impact on the city? thanks to the tourism generated by Millennium Park, Chi has added between 15,000 & 20,000 hospitality jobs downtown, meaning visitors are directly impacting the local economy.
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Gary Witt
2 years
Let go into the mystery of life Let go into the mystery Let go into the mystery Let yourself go You've got to open up your arms To the sun
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Gary Witt
1 year
This must be the place ⁦ @PabstTheaterGRP
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Gary Witt
1 year
@PabstTheaterGRP ⁩ takeover of ⁦ @VANGUARDMKE ⁩ We are the Abe Froman of Milwaukee.
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Gary Witt
1 year
@jeffwagner620 @CavalierJohnson Stop pretending that you care @jeffwagner620 . This is a PR thing for you. You have less empathy than a bumper sticker.
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Gary Witt
3 years
WI State revenues are now announced to be in the range of $4 billion (all time high). Most of the new revenue is accessible for use NOW. @MKE_CC @DavidCrowleyWI @CavalierJohnson . The @cityofmilwaukee and @CountyParks has some needs. @MKEBizJournal @BizTimesMedia @UrbanMilwaukee
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Gary Witt
2 years
@BobbyOnMKEcom @CatFishJohnny @HarborDistrict @MilwaukeeDCD Perfect example of Riverwalk use. Nice work @cooperagemke . Now PLEASE @LafayetteCrump find ways to activate some of the rest of the Milwaukee Riverwalk? It is such an incomplete thought. How about city supported Busking stations?
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Gary Witt
4 months
@DanRShafer The RNC/ @GOP reaction to my comments in this story was to plant a false story in the uber right wing @nypost about how I was overcharging possible RNC renters in order to attack my character and to scare others from speaking out. #mafiososhit
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Gary Witt
1 year
I am evangelizing tomorrow in DC at the @nivassoc conference about the @PabstTheaterGRP 's amazing backstage environment & our incredible front of house team's efforts welcoming people to experience shows in MKE. Also among others speaking is LEGENDARY tour manager David Burton.
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Gary Witt
8 years
Rep. Louie Gohmert statements 60% are false-20% are Mostly False-10% are Pants on Fire false-10% are Half true-0%.
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Gary Witt
3 years
Wisco admin secretary Joel Brennan named president of Greater MKE Committee. Very happy for Joel. Happier for @gmcmke to now focusing on funding the city & County’s infrastructure, improving K-12 educational & more. #herestoaccountabilityandoutcomesfirst
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Gary Witt
5 years
coming soon... A Biometric Patriot Act Bill. The trade-off of our individual civil liberties vs population health and safety. - @chamath @karaswisher
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Gary Witt
4 months
My gift to the @GOPconvention 4 running a hit piece in @nypost on me cuz I spoke to @danshaferMKE re their poor performance in MKE Was to do EVERY SINGLE interview about them that came my way @guardian @politico @AP @journalsentinel @WPR @WISN12News @tmj4 @CBS58 #yerwelcome
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Gary Witt
1 year
And start complaining about the fact that the city of Milwaukee receives less in shared revenue from the state in 2023 that it did in 2003.
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Gary Witt
2 years
@RepBryanSteil And there’s this:
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Rep. Katie Porter
2 years
When Republicans took power in 2010, they defunded the IRS so it would be easier for their ultra-wealthy donors to cheat taxes. Families have since been dealing with delays, and big corporations have been pocketing billions in taxes they owe under the law each year. (1/3)
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Gary Witt
2 years
Vehicle thefts in Milwaukee are down 21% year-to-date from 2021 According to crime statistics provided by MPD, a record 10,480 vehicle thefts occurred in the city in 2021. As of Tuesday, there have been 7,017 vehicle thefts in 2022, which is down 21% year-to-date from 2021
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Gary Witt
2 years
Here's 1 way to make @Summerfest better Major Fests ( @lollapalooza @pitchfork @jazzfest ) end at 10p or earlier allowing fans to go out after, see bands in smaller places & experience the city In MKE many businesses shut down during Summerfest because SF closes at midnight 1 of 4
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Gary Witt
6 years
Let's see your responses my friends in Twittsville. ***WHAT SHOULD BE BUILT IN THE PLACE OF THE BRADLEY CENTER?*** and... Please show up at Turner Hall on 9/5 @ 11:30am and heckle me on this panel. Think of it like a verbal dunk tank.
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Gary Witt
3 years
Here's something @MKEBizJournal @onmilwaukee @visitmilwaukee @BizTimesMedia @shepherdexpress @MMAC_Chamber @fox6now @CavalierJohnson can share! MILWAUKEE IS GETTING NATIONAL RECOGNITION! Our own @BradleyFdn is using their $850 million in assets to start a civil war in America
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Noah Shachtman
3 years
NEW: financial records reviewed by @RollingStone show three billionaire families -- the DeVoses, the Bradleys and the Scaifes -- funding the braintrust behind the Big Lie, and the plan to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
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Gary Witt
7 years
R.E.M. Automatic for the People celebrated by @Steven_Hyden and @CeleRockPod . #ifyoulovemusicyoutalkmusic
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Gary Witt
1 year
@aimeemann It can get worse. It’s called @YouTube
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Gary Witt
2 years
When we get together… ⁦ @thesmiletheband
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Gary Witt
1 year
@MattCordio @nytimes Thinking this is the reason why people who live in @CityofDenver never want to move to @cityofmilwaukee … right?
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Gary Witt
3 years
@DanRShafer Why not just proof of vaccination?
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Gary Witt
4 years
“If cities are going to rebound, they’re not going to do it without arts & cultural creatives,” said Richard Florida, professor at the Univ. of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management & School of Cities. ⁦ @nivassoc ⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁦ @MKEBizJournal
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Gary Witt
3 years
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Gary Witt
2 years
@RepBryanSteil You know who wants less IRS agents? Your wealthy donors who want to pay less taxes. You are doing their bidding here as they pull up the ladder that helped to make them rich. Which lobbying firm will you work for after you leave office?
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Gary Witt
3 years
Wow @MeowWolf Denver! A permanent 4-story immersive art exhibition. Immersive psychedelic, mind-bending art with an underlying rich narrative. Live, in person experiential entertainment is growwwwwing. #milwaukeeneedsthis
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Gary Witt
7 years
Can some philanthropic groups please give @julikaufmann money? Awards are nice but... her work deserves to be funded. @BizTimesMedia @MKEBizJournal
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BizTimes Milwaukee
7 years
Juli Kaufmann to receive BizTimes Woman Executive of the Year Award #BizExpoMKE
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Gary Witt
4 years
. @SenRonJohnson Independent musicians, agents, managers, event staff & touring crew call on Congress to provide relief to small businesses by including #RESTART Act on next pandemic relief bill. @PabstTheater contributes $250 million annually to MKE economy. We r 100% shuttered!
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Gary Witt
11 months
@CavalierJohnson someone better will take their place. @CharlesSchwab enjoy the fine dining of Brookfield: Champps, Red Robin & Taco Bell.
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Gary Witt
4 years
@mbradle3 @PeteButtigieg Regional Transit Authority instead of County to connect people to where the jobs are. High speed rail connecting Milwaukee and the 9.9 million people in Chicago enhancing our best tool.
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Gary Witt
4 months
@DanRShafer That is some old time, traditional, wide legged sunning of the balls.
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Gary Witt
3 years
As a share of gross domestic product, worker compensation is lower than at any point in the second half of the 20th century.
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Gary Witt
3 years
Thank you for coming back @goodkindbayview
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Gary Witt
3 years
Our soldiers have incredible courage and fortitude. They inspire me to be a better American.
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Gary Witt
3 years
Love this.
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Tim(ber) Gokhman
3 years
It’s also time to have the state legislature give Milwaukee its fair share, and stop subsidizing the rest of the state. Fix shared revenue. Support local control. @repvos @WIAssemblyGOP @WisDems
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Gary Witt
3 years
Restaurant Restoration Fund = a cash station for corp restaurants who had access to low interest $ while most indies get $0 Subway $362 million Golden Corral $277 million IHOP, $118 million @nivassoc helped small biz @WeRRestaurants did not @MKEBizJournal @UrbanMilwaukee
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Gary Witt
2 years
@DanielBice @JamesJdcxc @journalsentinel You only quoted one sentence from the speech in the headline. Clickbait. That. Is. Clickbait. And most people only see your headline because you are behind a paywall.
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Gary Witt
6 years
Nightlife is changing the global perception of NYC. MKE job growth 0.8%-pop 1.3%-Nightlife in NYC adds $29.1 billion-250k jobs $10.96 billion wages- So much for us to learn here @MKEchick knew this @pietlevy @RadioMilwaukee @UrbanMilwaukee @MKEBizJournal
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Gary Witt
5 years
It would be so refreshing if all the politicians who won or lost last night donated ALL the $$ that they normally would have spent on their celebration parties to those in need at this time in Milwaukee. @MayorOfMKE @UrbanMilwaukee @Fox6TedPerry @MKEBizJournal
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