Name: WisEye Morning Minute: Assembly State Affairs Committee on Brewers Bills
Uploaded: 2023-10-06T12:59:08-05:00

As reported by WisPolitics.com, Rep. Rob Brooks (R-Saukville) said the deal to fund Milwaukee Brewers ballpark maintenance will likely be amended to include a ticket tax and an audit of the current stadium board. Rep. Brooks in an Assembly State Affairs Committee hearing at State Fair Park said he's open to Senate amendments to the bill that aims to fulfill the state's existing contract as stadium landlord to the Brewers and keep the team in Wisconsin through 2050. Brooks added he predicts the deal will be amended to include a ticket tax on non-Brewer events such as concerts; and the deal would fund improvements to keep the stadium between 68 and 70 degrees during the winter. But Brewers Business Operations President Rick Schlesinger did not fully support the the idea of a ticket tax, arguing the team's focus has always been on affordability, not increasing prices. Schlesinger didn't specifically mention the non-Brewers event aspect of the ticket tax, but Rep. Marisabel Cabrera (D-Milwaukee) pressed him on his opinion on the non-Brewers event ticket tax. Schlesinger said he doesn't have authority to commit or not to a ticket tax, and "the devil is in the details."

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