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November 19, 2014

Alder Scott Resnicks Statement On Last Nights Common Council Meeting
Last night, the Common Council rejected Mayor Soglin's futile attempt to broker a
backroom deal as a means to address his own executive budget woes. If the Mayor were
serious about solving our long-term debt, we would not be moving forward with a luxury
hotel at Judge Doyle Square that is expected to cost taxpayers at least 18 million dollars in
2016. Rather than focusing on essential city services like infrastructure and safety, Mayor
Soglin chose to prioritize his own agenda. This top-down approach to the budget has failed
to best serve our taxpayers.
In his harangue to the Common Council, the Mayor placed blame on a number of people last
night for the state of our deficit: the Council, former Mayor Cieslewicz, County Executive
Joe Parisi, and the state and federal governments. The only person he left out was himself.
Four years later, he still cannot work alongside others.
Instead of working with council members to get our budget under control or listening to
residents on their opinion of Judge Doyle Square, today the Mayor will be in Austin, TX for
the remainder of this week. No Mayor in recent memory has traveled as frequently as this
incumbent, who has proposed $37,000 in his 2015 budget on travel, and whose four year
travel budget of nearly $75,000 will eclipse any four year administration in the history of
the City. Taxpayers deserve a Mayor who will be fiscally responsible beyond two weeks in
November, and that cannot be accomplished from a hotel room in Austin.
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