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Wednesday, September 30, 2015
SATURDAY TALK - VIDEO NO. 1 with Mary Glass
SATURDAY TALK - OCTOBER 3, 2015
Announcement
Center Street Library
2727 W. Center Street
11:00am - 2:00pm
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015
BREAKING NEWS -- SATURDAY TALK - OCTOBER 3, 2015 - Comptroller Martin Matson Returns - HVS Consultants' NBA Bucks Deal Evaluation
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| BREAKING NEWS - EXCLUSIVE |
September 29, 2015
CITY-WIDE Public Policy | SATURDAY TALK | on
October 3, 2015, 11:00AM - 2:00PM, Center Street Library, 2727 W. Center Street, Milwaukee.
Speakers:
- Comptroller Martin Matson
- La Frisko Lewis - Senior/UWM
- Richard Kauper - Architect & Lawn Expert
Richard Kauper will share the fundamentals of preparing roses for the winter season and share an Autumn Garden Guide.
La Frisko Lewis will share his trip to China with fellow International students of University of WI - Milwaukee and tidbits of preparation for travel, i.e., getting a Visa.
All three (3) of the speakers have spoken for SATURDAY TALK.
Comptroller Martin Matson has agreed to give a play-by-play of the HVS Consultants' evaluation. He will also speak of the 2016 City of Milwaukee Budget:
- Letter C - $200 million (contingent borrowing - Bucks underwriting)
- Letter F - $16.5 million (tax increment districts)
- $47 million (existing tax increment districts)
- Q & A
The HVS Consulting vetting was sought by the Comptroller and paid for by dollars in the Comptroller's budget.
We will examine the pros and cons to Following the Money.
We are especially interested in the recruitment of this firm, timing for examination, thoroughness of evaluation, IMPACT of 4th Street and other land-grabs; as well as, a look at the truth-to-cost of the proposed $500 million deal. How much the taxpayers of the City of Milwaukee will REALLY contribute/pay beyond $43 million.
Monday, September 28, 2015
BACKSTORY - ONGOING STORY- Birthday Mary Glass @ 70 & the Papal visit of Pope Francis
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| Pope Francis - Jorge Mario Bergoglio |
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| Mary Glass |
It was also the day that the 266th Roman Catholic head of state, Pope Francis - Jorge Mario Bergoglio, The People's Pope, came to America for the first time. He is 78 years young.
Mary is Catholic and is a Lector at her church -The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist.
She will call for Catholic Charities, Archbishop Jerome Listecki, all bishops, Father Jeffrey Haines, and all the ministers, sisters, leaders and staff of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee to collectively outreach to the all neighborhoods, the family of Milwaukee; so that the catholic religion is led by the rich and connected academic services of the leaders of Marquette University-Cardinal Stritch University-Alverno College; so that the center of all Catholic services join with its neighbors and jointly impact Milwaukee's Enduring Concentrated Poverty.
Thereby, distrust, homelessness, hunger, joblessness, greed, discrimination, exploitation, lawlessness, hatred, racism, misuse of power are replaced through the act of "ongoing expectation and acts of love in our Vision and daily Mission".
She will call for Catholic Charities, Archbishop Jerome Listecki, all bishops, Father Jeffrey Haines, and all the ministers, sisters, leaders and staff of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee to collectively outreach to the all neighborhoods, the family of Milwaukee; so that the catholic religion is led by the rich and connected academic services of the leaders of Marquette University-Cardinal Stritch University-Alverno College; so that the center of all Catholic services join with its neighbors and jointly impact Milwaukee's Enduring Concentrated Poverty.
Thereby, distrust, homelessness, hunger, joblessness, greed, discrimination, exploitation, lawlessness, hatred, racism, misuse of power are replaced through the act of "ongoing expectation and acts of love in our Vision and daily Mission".
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"As a Catholic, I was pleased to see Pope Francis speak endlessly about the importance of INCLUSION of ALL people and respect for the FAMILY - personal, extended, to world-created, said Mary Glass. We have had 6 days of immersing - a baptising, in the art of LOVE through the master's teachings of Grace". "It has been pomp and ceremony at its best; and, It has been depicted in an all-day lens of visual outreach through media - especially via CNN". "Americans and individuals around the world had a welcomed breath of fresh air during the six days of Tuesday, September 22-September 27, 2015". "I ask that we pray for Pope Francis and for each one of us".
Happy 70th Mary Glass and God's strength I send to me.
Pope Francis constantly asked during his visit to the USA, that we pray for him - I send my prays with him intended.
Bobby Hill - Keystone Boys Choir is the teen that sang so melodiously for the Pope in Philadelphia.
Below are snippets of the homilies.
Happy 70th Mary Glass and God's strength I send to me.
Pope Francis constantly asked during his visit to the USA, that we pray for him - I send my prays with him intended.
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| A Collage of Pope Francis visit to Washington, New York & Philadelphia |
Below are snippets of the homilies.
Sunday, September 20, 2015
SUNDAY AM EDITION - HELP Mary Glass create COMMUNICATION for People's engagement 3-Minute video
3-Minute Video
"It is clear that we have taken a step forward into the opportunities of the world wide web and social networking for the implementation of our newest campaign, Marathon Against NBA Bucks Mega Greed Deal," said Mary Glass, Chair/Chief Visionary Officer. "We have launched a time-sensitive crowdfunding campaign to provide necessary information to the People of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County; and, to compete with the Fast-tracking of Mayor Tom Barrett, County Executive Chris Abele and Governor Scott Walker."
Let's work to TWEAK this wrong and create a model for you and others who have or have not (yet) been affected by one of the NBA teams.
On June 4, 2015, Wisconsinites were broadsided with the press conference announcement by Walker-Abele-Barrett of a deal they had cut with three wealthy millionaire-billionaires for the retention of the Milwaukee Bucks team in the city of Milwaukee.
The initial deal is called: "It is Cheaper to Keep Them". It is proposed at $500 million and consist of two (2) paying parts – $250 million from buyers ($150 million) and seller ($100 million); and, $250 from PUBLIC FINANCING – $55 million – state; $55 million – county; $43 million – city of Milwaukee; and, $93 million - Wisconsin Center District - the traffic cop of the funding.
The announcement also came with pretense of this-n-that in cost. However, cost-overruns, public staff work, interest and lack of clarity of all partners and investors; the only thing for certain is the taxpayers (mostly the city followed by the county) will pay for 30 years for a private deal for three wealthy men that they knew nothing about, had no input, and did not authorize such a deal of Involuntary Servitude.
Therein lies the "Misuse of Power" followed by many troubling features, that include Senate Bill 209, $1 giveaway of approximately 10 acres of prime Park East Corridor real estate, sales tax waivers, purchase of a parking lot, giveaways of parking lot revenue, tax increment districts, $200 million Contingency fund in the 2016 budget, housing funding, environmental payments, changing of RACM staff involvement and authorities, etc. It is clear that the deal has been on all three (3) levels for some time but no due diligence toward the People.
YouCaring Crowdfunding will assist MPA LLC, the neighbors of the communities and districts of the city of Milwaukee and county of Milwaukee to tweak the fast-tracking and wrongful acts at the present time in the city and county government.
This outreach will allow us to give proper NOTICE to our elected-appointed-hired-donor for hire government representatives that the People feel betrayed, disrespected, double-crossed, discriminated against and disenfranchised by the CHEAPER TO KEEP THEM Deal.
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This Marathon led by MPA LLC to create a massive Communication for the aggrandizement of the People will not only tweak the wrong done by Misuse of Power, seek correction through the justice system, bring individuals up on charges and help prevent more damage to the human-civil-legal rights of the People of the city of Milwaukee, Milwaukee County and the state of Wisconsin, as a model when dealing with public financing.
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HELP Mary Glass create COMMUNICATION for People's engagement - Press Release BACK STORY
MILWAUKEE - YouCaring is selected Crowdfunding for MPA LLC Communication Campaign for the People
FOR RELEASE September 14, 2015
We are pleased to announce that YouCaring is Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC choice for Crowdfunding. The platform is well known, has easy access, provides support and its pay system instantly enable users to accept donations.
"It is clear that we have taken a step forward into the opportunities of the world wide web and social networking for the implementation of our newest campaign, Marathon Against NBA Bucks Mega Greed Deal," said Mary Glass, Chair/Chief Visionary Officer. "We have launched a time-sensitive crowdfunding campaign to provide necessary information to the People of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County; and, to compete with the Fast-tracking of Mayor Tom Barrett, County Executive Chris Abele and Governor Scott Walker."
On June 4, 2015, Wisconsinites were broadsided with the press conference announcement by Walker-Abele-Barrett of a deal they had cut with three wealthy millionaire-billionaires for the retention of the Milwaukee Bucks team in the city of Milwaukee.
The initial deal is called: "It is Cheaper to Keep Them". It is proposed at $500 million and consist of two (2) paying parts – $250 million from buyers ($150 million) and seller ($100 million); and, $250 from PUBLIC FINANCING – $55 million – state; $55 million – county; $43 million – city of Milwaukee; and, $93 million - Wisconsin Center District - the traffic cop of the funding.
The announcement also came with pretense of this-n-that in cost. However, cost-overruns, public staff work, interest and lack of clarity of all partners and investors; the only thing for certain is the taxpayers (mostly the city followed by the county) will pay for 30 years for a private deal for three wealthy men that they knew nothing about, had no input, and did not authorize such a deal of Involuntary Servitude.
Therein lies the "Misuse of Power" followed by many troubling features, that include Senate Bill 209, $1 giveaway of approximately 10 acres of prime Park East Corridor real estate, sales tax waivers, purchase of a parking lot, giveaways of parking lot revenue, tax increment districts, $200 million Contingency fund in the 2016 budget, housing funding, environmental payments, changing of RACM staff involvement and authorities, etc. It is clear that the deal has been on all three (3) levels for some time but no due diligence toward the People.
YouCaring Crowdfunding will assist MPA LLC, the neighbors of the communities and districts of the city of Milwaukee and county of Milwaukee to tweak the fast-tracking and wrongful acts at the present time in the city and county government. We are especially interested in the fingerprints of those who are up for election in 2016, namely Tom Barrett, Chris Abele, Michael Murphy, Joe Davis, Milele Coggs, Ashanti Hamilton, Anthony Zielinski, Russell Stamper, Willie Wade, Terry Witkowski, Robert Bauman, Robert Puente, James Bohl, Nik Kovak, Jose Perez, Robert Donovan, and Mark Borkowski.
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Our Communication campaign will provide hands-on INCLUSION and outreach to the People for due process. It will allow the People to "put obligating rules and regulations" to the promised but NO real laws for transparency, implementation points and accountability for gainful employment that is focused on the areas that are densely populated of Color, risky behavior in safety and burdened by Enduring Concentrated Poverty.
We look forward to creating an ongoing relationship that includes networking with our new relationships across the city-county-state-nation-world to jumpstart a 2015 email and text list for promoting success and the model that will come from the YouCaring Crowdfunding over the next 20 plus days.
HELP Mary Glass create COMMUNICATION for People's engagement
Anyone interested in getting involved as a Crowdfunding donor should go to:
We are also creating a Speaker and Volunteer List for those interested in being a sponsor, designer, photographer, writer, member of the press, or volunteer. They should contact mpapublicpolicyreview@gmail.com
For more information, please visit
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Friday, September 18, 2015
Meet Ms. Yvette - Our NEW YouCaring Traffic Cop
MEET Ms. Yvette - Our Traffic Manager for Crowdfunding. She has agreed to keep us homing with ideas on the pros and cons of our NEW YouCaring website.
She is great with messaging and customer care.
You can send her suggestions, comments and messages to:
nbabucksgreed deal@yahoo.com
Have you given to our NEW YouCaring fundraiser? If not, go to:
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
YouCaring is selected Crowdfunding for MPA LLC Communication Campaign for the People
FOR RELEASE September 15, 2015
Media Contact: Mary Glass, mpapublicpolicyreview@gmail.com
CLICK PHOTO below. Hear my Request for your donation.
Click DONATE for Online gift.
CLICK PHOTO below. Hear my Request for your donation.
Click DONATE for Online gift.
MILWAUKEE - We are pleased to announce that YouCaring is Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC choice for Crowdfunding. The platform is well known, has easy access, provides support and its pay system instantly enable users to accept donations.
"It is clear that we must take a giant step forward into the opportunities of the World Wide Web and social networking for the implementation of our newest campaign, Marathon against NBA Bucks Mega Greed Deal," said Mary Glass, Chair/Chief Visionary Officer. "We have launched a time-sensitive crowdfunding campaign to jumpstart the campaign and provide necessary information to the People of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County to compete with the Fast-tracking of the Public Financing that has the citizenry hog-tied in 30 years of INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE.
On June 4, 2015, Wisconsinites were broadsided with the press conference announcement by Governor Scott Walker-County Executive Chris Abele-Mayor Tom Barrett of a deal they had cut with three wealthy millionaires, Herb Kohl and billionaires Wes Edens and Marc Larsy, for the retention of the Milwaukee Bucks National Basketball Team in the city of Milwaukee.
The announced deal is called: "It is Cheaper to Keep Them". It is proposed at $500 million and it consists of two (2) paying parts; one is private and one is public. The private part of the deal was $250 million. It was divided into:
– $250 million from seller Herb Kohl and buyers Marc Larsy and Wes Eden
– $100 million from seller Herb Kohl
– $150 million from Marc Larsy and Wes Eden
The public part of the deal was $250 million. It was divided into:
– $55 million State of Wisconsin
– $55 million Milwaukee County
– 47 million City of Milwaukee
– 93 million Wisconsin Center District - the traffic cop of the funding.
The Cheaper to Keep Them announcement also came with surreptitious parts of this-n-that in cost and the promise of JOBS with no specificity in accountability.
Continued reports of cost-overruns, public staff work, surreptitious meetings, growing interest cost, NO involvement of African American and People of Color and lack of clarity of all partners and investors left the taxpayers of Milwaukee with their mouths open with the ongoing surprises and disgust of another deal for everyone but them; however, they provide the framing and finance.
The bottom line for the taxpayers from the Cheaper to Keep Them deal was that the taxpayers had been violated in due process and they will pay for 30 years for a private deal for three wealthy men (Kohl-Edens-Larsy) that they knew nothing about, had no input, and did not authorize – a deal of Involuntary Servitude.
They saw how Walker-Abele-Barrett’s "Misuse of Power" included the legislative side (state-county-city), and monopoly-oligopoly takeover of lobbyists, developers and investors with conflict of interest, bait-n-switch, marketing created many troubling features, that included legislators rolling over with support, Rolling Request for Proposals, Resolution, Senate Bill 209, $1 giveaway of approximately 10 acres of prime Park East Corridor real estate, sales tax waivers, purchase of a parking lot, giveaways of parking lot revenue, framing of tax increment districts, recommendations from comptroller and key officers, $200 million Contingency fund in the 2016 city budget (earmarked for NBA Bucks Mega Greed Deal funding), housing funding, environmental payments, changing of RACM staff involvement and the dominance of Head of the Herd LLC. It is clear that the level of disenfranchisement demands the U.S. Department of Justice and as often as necessary visits to our judicial system for address and relief.
YouCaring Crowdfunding will assist MPA LLC, Milwaukee Joint NSP Committee & Task Force (the neighbors of the communities) in districts of the city of Milwaukee and county of Milwaukee to shine a light, tweak the fast-tracking and wrongful acts at the present time and seek relief through our justice system, public scrutiny and the 2016 ballot box.
We look forward to creating an ongoing leadership, fellowship and stewardship for public policy that includes networking with our new relationships across the city-county-state-nation-world to jumpstart a 2015 email and text list for data collection, surveys, focus groups, and a conference to promote success and the functional model that will come from the YouCaring Crowdfunding over the next 20 plus days.
Our YouCaring campaign is called:
HELP Mary Glass create COMMUNICATION for People's engagement.
Anyone interested in getting involved as a Crowdfunding donor should go to:
We are creating a volunteer list that includes: economists, lawyers, sponsors, photographers, writers, graphic designers, videographers, and film producers. If interested, we are at: mpapublicpolicyreview@gmail.com
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
SATURDAY TALK is ON-THE-ROAD in the Marathon Against Disenfranchisement & Misuse of Power
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WATER TOWER PARK - East North Avenue and Lake Drive Milwaukee was the site of the LABOR DAY Bonding in Leadership and Stewardship for Milwaukeeans in the marketplace and working folk seeking family supporting wages, lifestyles comparable with today's offerings and quality of life that supports health and wellness, disposable dollars from gainful employment, varied affordable housing with real estate options of renting, leasing, joint ownership and home ownership.
Labor Day is the first Monday in September. It is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American Workers.
- 2016 Candidates wanting BIG Changes in City Hall.
- February 16, 2016 Pink Slip & Voter ID Push Campaign.
- City of Milwaukee Budget.
- NBA Bucks Mega Greed Deal.
Citizens Oversight Wake-up Call Group
- Victoria Bodor - Homeowner
- Bishop Rasheed
- Candidate Jackie Ivy - District 2
- Candidate James Methu - Mayor
- Candidate Frank S. Emanuele, Jr. - District 9
- Candidate Andrew Shaw - District 4
- Martha De La Rosa - 9to5 - Wisconsin Director
- Dawn Powell - Dusk to Dawn Gardner
- Richard Kauper - Architect and Consultant Methu Campaign
- Lonnie Green - Methu Campaign
- Mary Glass - Chair/CVO/CEO, MPA LLC
Craig Jackson - Photographer
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Text4Baby - September 8, 2015
September 8, 2015
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| Dear MARY,
The month of September is recognized each year as Infant Mortality Awareness Month,
and provides an opportunity for healthcare providers, policy makers, and families to discuss and learn more about how to reduce the risk of infant mortality.
Text4baby is one tool that can support moms and other caregivers in giving their babies the best possible start in life. Providing mothers with accurate, ongoing health information is a powerful tool to ensure that babies start life healthy, and stay healthy. Text4baby messaging includes healthy pregnancy tips, such as reminders to take a prenatal vitamin containing folic acid, as well as infant safety tips, such as the importance of a safe sleep environment for baby. When you help pregnant women and mothers of infants sign up for Text4baby, you are connecting them to reliable health and safety information, right at their fingertips. Together with Text4baby, you can help families raise babies who thrive!
Sincerely,
Kathleen Murphy
Senior Program Manager, Text4baby
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Monday, September 7, 2015
LABOR DAY - A tribute to American Workers - especially African Americans in KING COTTON SLAVERY
Historic
Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.
Through the years the nation gave increasing emphasis to Labor Day. The first governmental recognition came through municipal ordinances passed during 1885 and 1886. From these, a movement developed to secure state legislation. The first state bill was introduced into the New York legislature, but the first to become law was passed by Oregon on February 21, 1887. During the year four more states — Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York — created the Labor Day holiday by legislative enactment. By the end of the decade Connecticut, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania had followed suit. By 1894, 23 other states had adopted the holiday in honor of workers, and on June 28 of that year, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories.
African American
We remember and celebrate the history of African Americans working in these United States and promoting economic wealth for Caucasians - Enduring Concentrated Poverty.
The Gospel of Slavery, by “Iron Gray,” [Abel C. Thomas] 1864.
The most commonly used phrase describing the growth of the American economy in the 1830s and 1840s was “Cotton Is King.” We think of this slogan today as describing the plantation economy of the slavery states in the Deep South, which led to the creation of “the second Middle Passage.” But it is important to understand that this was not simply a Southern phenomenon. Cotton was one of the world’s first luxury commodities, after sugar and tobacco, and was also the commodity whose production most dramatically turned millions of black human beings in the United States themselves into commodities. Cotton became the first mass consumer commodity.
Understanding both how extraordinarily profitable cotton was and how interconnected and overlapping were the economies of the cotton plantation, the Northern banking industry, New England textile factories and a huge proportion of the economy of Great Britain helps us to understand why it was something of a miracle that slavery was finally abolished in this country at all.
Let me try to break this down quickly, since it is so fascinating:
Let’s start with the value of the slave population. Steven Deyle shows that in 1860, the value of the slaves was “roughly three times greater than the total amount invested in banks,” and it was “equal to about seven times the total value of all currency in circulation in the country, three times the value of the entire livestock population, twelve times the value of the entire U.S. cotton crop and forty-eight times the total expenditure of the federal government that year.” As mentioned here in a previous column, the invention of the cotton gin greatly increased the productivity of cotton harvesting by slaves. This resulted in dramatically higher profits for planters, which in turn led to a seemingly insatiable increase in the demand for more slaves, in a savage, brutal and vicious cycle.
Now, the value of cotton: Slave-produced cotton “brought commercial ascendancy to New York City, was the driving force for territorial expansion in the Old Southwest and fostered trade between Europe and the United States,” according to Gene Dattel. In fact, cotton productivity, no doubt due to the sharecropping system that replaced slavery, remained central to the American economy for a very long time: “Cotton was the leading American export from 1803 to 1937.”
What did cotton production and slavery have to do with Great Britain? The figures are astonishing. As Dattel explains: “Britain, the most powerful nation in the world, relied on slave-produced American cotton for over 80 per cent of its essential industrial raw material. English textile mills accounted for 40 percent of Britain’s exports. One-fifth of Britain’s twenty-two million people were directly or indirectly involved with cotton textiles.”
twenty-two million people were directly or indirectly involved with cotton textiles.”
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