From: Bohl, James Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 12:18 PM To: Lee, Chris Subject: FW: PROPOSED SAM'S CLUB ON BRADLEY AT 124TH From: teamoman@themayers.net [mailto:teamoman@themayers.net] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 12:14 PM To: Bohl, James Subject: PROPOSED SAM'S CLUB ON BRADLEY AT 124TH DEAR ALDERMAN BOHL AS YOU ARE PART OF THE COMMITTEE TO DECIDE ON WHAT WALMART GET'S OR DOES NOT GET REGARDING THEIR REQUEST FOR REZONING TO ACCOMMODATE WALMART CORP. THIS SHOULD BE A NO-BRAINER. THE TOUGHEST THING TO DO WOULD BE JUST SAY NO. NEVERTHELESS WALMART IS THE WORLD'S LARGEST CORPORATION BY DOLLAR VOLUME AND WILL BRING THEIR FINANCIAL CLOUT TO BEAR. AS YOU MAY NOT KNOW AS WELL AS MOST YOUNGER PEOPLE (I AM IN MY 79th YEAR) AND MUCH OF MY WORKING CAREER WAS IN WORKING WITH RETAIL MERCHANTS. ACTUALLY ONE OF THE TWO REASONS I CHOSE TO RETIRE WAS BECAUSE ACTUALLY THIS CORPORATION, THEY ALWAYS GOT WHAT THEY WANTED BECAUSE THEY USED THEIR IMMENSE DOLLAR CLOUT WITH MANUFACTURER'S OF CONSUMER GOODS TO INTIMIDATE THEIR SUPPLIERS. RECENTLY THEY WERE CHARGED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF CHINA WITH BRIBERY, THIS OF COURSE IS NOT A DEMOCRACY BUT LETS CALL IT A CAPITALIST/COMMUNIST TYPE OF GOVERNMENT WHERE THE FOLKS IN CHARGE ARE QUITE USED TO CORRUPTION. LAST NIGHT BOB PUENTE ATTENDED A MEETING AT GOODRICH SCHOOL REQUESTED BY OUR BLOCK WATCH CAPTAIN AND WALMART WAS REPRESENTED THEY REALLY STOOD OUT AS THEY WERE NOT PART OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. BOB STOOD OUT IN CONTRAST BECAUSE HE WAS CASUALLY DRESSED, NOW THIS IS WHAT MAKES MILWAUKEE GREAT OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE JUST ORDINARY HARD WORKING MILWAUKEE ANS. I ASKED BOB TO JUST SAY NO AT THE MEETING. NOW I WOULD SUGGEST THAT THE ZONING COMMITTEE TAKE A RIDE OUT TO DRETZKA COUNTY PARK AND VISUALIZE A SAM'S CLUB BECOMING PERT AND PARCEL OF THIS. JIM THIS IS WHY I CALL IT A NO BRAINER VOTE OF NO. I WILL ATTEMPT TO COPY THIS TO THE REST OF THE ALDERMAN INVOLVED. TAKE CARE TOM MAYER 9840 W. BRADLEY ROAD 53224 414-949-7251