The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce is holding a budget briefing with Walker Administration Secretary MIKE HUEBSCH. The event is set for Wednesday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Brookfield Suites Hotel & Convention Center, 1200 S. Moorland Rd., in Brookfield. Go to www.mmac.org.
Presidential adviser DAVID AXELROD will be in Milwaukee next month to raise money for Mayor TOM BARRETT, according to an invitation obtained by WisPolitics. The first event of Barrett’s annual “Mayors’ Club” calls for donations of between $100 and $400 for a seat at the May 25 event at the Italian Conference Center.
KARL ROVE spoke Monday to a packed audience at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Student Union in a speech heavy on protesters. Rove, a former adviser to President GEORGE W. BUSH, praised Gov. SCOTT WALKER but ripped President BARACK OBAMA as more concerned with campaigning than leading. See WisPolitics coverage: http://www.wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=234548.
The state Legislature passed a resolution authored by state Sen. TIM CARPENTER, D-Milwaukee, to declare January 26 of each year to be “Bob Uecker Day.”
