{"id":524,"date":"2004-09-09T08:05:49","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T08:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=524"},"modified":"2004-09-09T08:05:49","modified_gmt":"2004-09-09T08:05:49","slug":"tommy_thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Thompson, Bud Selig &#038; The Brewers, Still Sticking it to the Taxpayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/sports\/brew\/mpark\/sep04\/257492.asp\">Don Walker<\/a> on the $8M repairs needed for Miller Park&#8217;s 3.5 year old roof.  We should not forget Tommy Thompson&#8217;s infamous quote: (made in reference to an excise tax to help finance the Brewers&#8217; new stadium)  Let Milwaukee and nearby counties pay for it, not his northern constituents. &#8220;Stick it to &#8217;em.&#8221; And he did.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shepherd-express.com\/shepherd\/19\/06\/headlines\/dispatches.html\">Shepherd Express<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/milwaukee.wispolitics.com\/index.iml?Issue_ID=197\">Wispolitics<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/000444.php\">This article by Steve Fainaru<\/a> (created not in Wisconsin, but in Washington, DC) tells the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Walker on the $8M repairs needed for Miller Park&#8217;s 3.5 year old roof. We should not forget Tommy Thompson&#8217;s infamous quote: (made in reference to an excise tax to help finance the Brewers&#8217; new stadium) Let Milwaukee and nearby counties pay for it, not his northern constituents. &#8220;Stick it to &#8217;em.&#8221; And he did. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}