Tom Barrett's file

Says Tom Barrett "has directed that tens of millions of City of Milwaukee tax dollars be used for the construction of a downtown trolley at the expense of: health and public safety; repair and replacement of public infrastructure; public education; and, job creation and economic development."  

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, July 14th, 2017

"This is the true picture of ‘Milwaukee's Renaissance’ after 12 years of Mayor Tom Barrett's leadership."  

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016

Under Mayor Tom Barrett, the number of Milwaukee police officers "has not increased."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Monday, August 18th, 2014

"In the city of Milwaukee, we’ve still got a mayor and a police chief who are furloughing police officers at a time when we have violence all across the city."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, June 11th, 2014

Milwaukee has seen "an uptick in violence" since 2010, and "the only period of calm we get is when winter sets in."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, May 23rd, 2014

"Republican Bob Donovan" has "run as a Republican time and again."  

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, March 11th, 2016

Every general City of Milwaukee employee "pays toward his or her pension, but approximately 88 percent of our police officers and firefighters do not."  

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, September 30th, 2015

Using a surcharge on the cigarette tax to help pay for a new downtown sports arena "is not feasible under state law."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, March 13th, 2014

Among the nation’s 51 largest metropolitan areas, Milwaukee is the "only one" where the poverty rate is more than "four times greater in the city than it is in the suburbs."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, October 3rd, 2013

A state report’s "projection is that approximately half of public employees" would live outside municipal boundaries in a decade if the state bans local residency requirements.

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Sunday, May 19th, 2013