Battle of the Bobs

Battle of the Bobs

Fox 6 has posted its unedited footage of the brouhaha, er, press conference that embroiled aldermen Bob Donovan and Bob Bauman on Tuesday. I’m not even going to try to summarize the exchange. Just watch (scroll to the bottom for the raw video). Suffice it to say Donovan wants to use $64.6 million in streetcar funding to pave local streets, but Bauman says this is impossible and calls Donovan out for not introducing such a proposal for the Common Council to debate. A case study in the fun mix of collegiality and hot-tempered rhetoric that makes City Hall politics in this…

Fox 6 has posted its unedited footage of the brouhaha, er, press conference that embroiled aldermen Bob Donovan and Bob Bauman on Tuesday.

I’m not even going to try to summarize the exchange. Just watch (scroll to the bottom for the raw video). Suffice it to say Donovan wants to use $64.6 million in streetcar funding to pave local streets, but Bauman says this is impossible and calls Donovan out for not introducing such a proposal for the Common Council to debate.

A case study in the fun mix of collegiality and hot-tempered rhetoric that makes City Hall politics in this city and others so entertaining.


Matt has written for Milwaukee Magazine since 2006, when he was a lowly intern. Since then, he’s held the posts of assistant news editor and, most recently, senior editor. He’s lived in South Carolina, Tennessee, Connecticut, Iowa, and Indiana but mostly in Wisconsin. He wants to do more fishing but has a hard time finding worms. For the magazine, Matt has written about city government, schools, religion, coffee roasters and Congress.