House Confidential
Chris Abele’s High-Rise Double Condo
Now separated from his wife, he has a luxurious, 8,132-square-foot suite near the top of the Moderne.
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I guess I don’t understand the purpose of this snarky article. If you want to write that County Exec Abele has purchased a new residence, fine (although I don’t think it’s really necessary – there are enough things to write about his public life if you must). And to add all the snide commentary and drag his wife into it – why? If you don’t like Chris Abele or don’t like his politics, that’s fine too, but this serves no purpose. Other than perhaps to make a writer who sounds tinged in jealousy and the likely negative commenters who will chime in, somehow feel better about themselves. This article saddens me – I was considering making a donation for Urban Milwaukee’s expansion (particularly with the opportunity to double it with Barry Mandel’s challenge), because I generally like the work of UM. But this tabloid crap is not the direction I thought you were going. Maybe we need a REDUCTION at Urban Milwaukee rather than an expansion. Just sad.
Hi Carla (May I call you Carla?)
I see you are not familiar with Michael Horne’s House Confidential articles. That’s okay! But I do suggest you go through and read them. He typically will write about the living quarters of various city celebrities (of some sort or another) and dives into the history of the house. Mr. Horne is a snarky fellow and so he likes to have fun with it and include some snide comments where he can. They are generally pretty funny so just take them in stride and laugh. It has nothing to do with politics or liking/disliking the person.
The list at he bottom of the article provides a handy list of Michael Horne’s ‘victims’. They include sports players, Mayors, Newaukee Founders and right wing radio announcers. This isn’t a hit piece but rather a part of an ongoing feature that has been around for many years. As I mentioned before they are a good read so I suggest you check them out.
Best Wishes,
Michael
Since I’m a Milwaukee history nut, I always find Michael Horne’s House Confidential articles very interesting. Keep up the great work, Michael.
Hi Michiller (may I call you Michiller?)
Sounds like the author is just jealous and petty, nothing more nothing less.
RE: “Hungry after a long session with the County Board or another headline-generating tiff with Sheriff David Clarke?”
Michael, a great read…but let’s not forget: Chris Abele does not deign to EVER meet with the County Board. For all we know, he watches their proceedings on the public-access channel in that very condo cocoon–while texting his boisterous henchman Teig Whaley-Smith when to burst into the board chambers with another surprise announcement of Abele’s latest “sale”/giveway of a precious county asset for a dollar or two…with the motto “Privatization for one and all!”
In any case, it’s good to know Abele’s landed on his feet after his second divorce and latest bout of woman trouble….
Paul, it’s not jealousy or pettiness to lampoon a public figure (born with a silver spoon in his mouth) who has chosen to make it his “business” to run roughshod over the common good in order to curry affirmation from his plutocratic peers.
Incisive scribe Michael Horne (Milwaukee’s modern-day Dorothy Parker) does us a favor by informing, in an entertaining manner, that this would-be emperor has no clothes–and now, alas, no fireplaces. Pshaw!
P.S. Horne is an equal-opportunity satirist.
Paul knows that anyone even slightly critical of a rich dude is just jealous. Fox News told him so.