MKE County
Highland Park To Become Harley Park
The Harley-Davidson Foundation offers $350,000 for park improvements and 10 years of maintenance.
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This wrongheaded “renaming” of a public park for a corporate entity, no matter how historically significant that business may be, is nothing less than the sale of corporate naming rights to publicly owned parkland. What next? Association Of Commerce Park? Bradley Foundation Park?
Our tax dollars are already regularly used to build multi-million dollar facilities like our baseball stadium so that (given the approval of a second mortgage) we can take our kids to AmFam Field to enjoy an afternoon of $9.00 beers and $6.75 hotdogs, (not to mention $15 t0 $25 parking), while the less financially advantaged members of our community have the opportunity to recreate in a poorly maintained local park soon to be named for various investment opportunities.
Isn’t it time to put a greater share of our public purse to purposes that benefit the public’s quality of life? And to stop selling our civic pride to the highest bidders? Our park system has always been free and accessible to all. Let’s keep it that way by investing our resources in their improvement and naming them for those individuals whose values they represent.
Just another addition to the Republican playbook titled: “Magical Thinking As A Guide To Policy Formulation.”
gerrybroderick is right. The politicians here are just looking to stuff cash in their pockets. The “public good” is not on their minds. What else would account for inviting the democracy-destroying, black-hating, gun-loving Rethuglicans here?