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SOME BARRETT FLASHBACKS

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A few awkward items from the Tom Barrett Way Back Machine. Yesterday he inistsed he was "always" for rebuilding the Zoo Interchange. I suppose that depends on the maning of the word "always." And "for/"

First, this press release:

Milwaukee Mayor Barrett: Thanks Governor for Zoo Interchange Veto
7/21/2005 


Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett issued the following statement regarding Governor Doyle’s partial veto of the Zoo Interchange financing:

“Governor Doyle took the appropriate action in vetoing the Legislature’s $38 million appropriation for the Zoo Interchange. The funding was excessive and the message it sent, divisive. I thank Governor Doyle for recognizing that Milwaukee-Waukesha regional cooperation is not a one-way street.” 

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Then this October 20006 article from the Business Journal... entitled “City to fight Zoo Interchange timetable” :

“Milwaukee city officials, citing environmental concerns, want to put the brakes on the fast-track schedule for reconstructing the Zoo Interchange. Patrick Curley, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett's chief of staff, is pushing the Wisconsin Department of Transportation to complete a full environmental impact study of the project instead of an abbreviated environmental assessment.” 

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And this this letter from James Elliot, Chairman of the Milwaukee County Research Park Corporation, reflecting  the frustration of the local business community saying  - “On behalf of several business leaders in Southeastern Wisconsin we are writing to express our concern over your Chief of Staff Patrick Curley’s vow to have the City of Milwaukee Work to delay the modernization of the zoo interchange in a recent Business Journal article.”