Mayor Barrett, How About a Tour of Your Radio System? Or MMSD?

Today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ran a story with Barrett’s Democratic Party flunky bragging that Barrett had stayed in Milwaukee over the weekend and “spent several hours touring five areas that were damaged by the flood.”

Wow, we're sure touring on Saturday was a lot more important than Walker’s touring flooded areas the day before Barrett. In fact, touring a day late was so important that Barrett’s Democratic Party Chief Flunky said, "One man stood up and led, Tom Barrett."

Now that Barrett is leading through timely tours, we have a couple more tours to suggest:

OpenSky Radio System – As CRG uncovered, Barrett has literally hundreds of police officers he is responsible for who would love to show him around this $20 million boondoggle. They would love to talk to him about the 500 plus pages of reports they have filed warning him that their lives and the lives of the citizens they protect are put in danger every day by a system he won’t even talk about.  By the way, Barrett has already had SIX YEARS in office to solve the problem ,, and virtually EVERYONE blames lack of leadership!

Here is what your Police Chief had to say about you.

The police union rep also blamed your lack of leadership.

And the firefighter's union blamed your lack of leadership citing specific incidents like the "Pizza Man" fire where police officers, firefighters, and citizens lives and property were endangered!

Six years Tom - SIX (not to mention millions in cost overruns)!

MMSD – Normally, Barrett would have to go down to the Milwaukee River or Jones Island to see his sewer system continue its annual pollution of our Lake. This week, he can tour basements all over the city to see what his six years of inaction has left for others to clean up. Maybe Milwaukeeans can wipe their floors with the MMSD study Barrett commissioned six years ago.  Hmmm, speaking of things no one has seen or heard from lately, where is that report?

Here are a couple of interesting shots.  No, this is not the Gulf Coast.  This is Tom Barrett's Milwaukee.

Anchors away Tom!  We have a boat fueled and ready to take you on this tour and await your call!  Funny how visible and eager you were when you were blaming it all on Marvin Pratt!

Earlier this month, CRG revealed internal Milwaukee police documents showing the Mayor and the police chief know cops lives are placed in jeopardy as $20 million in radios fail in deadly situations. And even more documents, obtained under the Open Records Law, reveal that the radios are failing the firefighters, too.

Mayor Barrett has issued no public statements in the wake of those revelations. His silence is deafening, and he needs to plop his butt down in Milwaukee and fix the mess before he starts job-hunting. We’d at least like to know he spent enough time in Milwaukee to read the reports from his officers before someone gets killed.

Mayor Barrett, tours are nice. But, they shouldn’t be confused with leadership.

Stand Up! Lead! Protect your police officers! Protect Lake Michigan!  If you REALLY care!

Take your own advice; don’t leave Milwaukee until the crises you are responsible for are fixed!