{"id":581,"date":"2021-02-23T20:31:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T20:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plutchaknews.com\/newsroom\/?p=581"},"modified":"2021-02-23T20:43:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T20:43:50","slug":"in-interview-newcomer-lasry-surprised-that-milwaukee-was-like-any-other-big-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/plutchaknews.com\/newsroom\/2021\/02\/23\/in-interview-newcomer-lasry-surprised-that-milwaukee-was-like-any-other-big-city\/","title":{"rendered":"In interview, newcomer Lasry &#8216;surprised&#8217; that Milwaukee was like any other big city"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ryan Grim: BILLIONAIRE\u2019S Son, Senate Candidate CAUGHT, Admits He Barely Knows State He\u2019s Running In\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jPtWsu7CSCc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MILWAUKEE &#8212; Milwaukee Bucks senior vice president Alex Lasry, who announced earlier this month he will run as a Democrat in the 2022 race for U.S. Senate, is raising eyebrows for comments made as a relative newcomer to Milwaukee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson, a Democrat and lifelong Wisconsin resident, was the first to declare he was running for the seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The seat is currently held by Republican Ron Johnson, who has yet to indicate if he will run for re-election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/02\/21\/alex-lasry-wisconsin-senate-milwaukee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In a story published Sunday in the national news website, The Intercept, <\/a>Ryan Grim, D.C. Bureau Chief called out Lasry for comments made last summer as a relative newcomer to Wisconsin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know much about Milwaukee; I knew the Brewers, I knew the Packers were in Wisconsin,\u201d he said in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6SubnPYrwyA&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;ab_channel=JewishMuseumMilwaukee\">conversation<\/a>&nbsp;with the Jewish Museum Milwaukee this past summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lasry went on to say, &#8220;What most surprised me about Milwaukee, is that Milwaukee has all the same things that any other city, especially a big city, has.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lasry&#8217;s father, Marc, is a Milwaukee Bucks owner and private equity billionaire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Grim, Lasry made his first brief trip to Wisconsin when he was canvassing for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His first visit to Milwaukee came with his father when he met with former Wisconsin Sen. Herb Kohl \u2014 of the Kohl\u2019s department stores chain \u2014 about buying the Bucks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deal was finalized in 2014, keeping the Bucks in Milwaukee, and the younger Lasry began working for the team in August 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Author Dan Plutchak, is an early supporter of Tom Nelson for Senate.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee Bucks senior vice president Alex Lasry, who announced earlier this month he will run as a Democrat in the 2022 race for U.S. Senate, is raising eyebrows for comments made as a relative newcomer to Milwaukee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In interview, newcomer Lasry &#039;surprised&#039; that Milwaukee was like any other big city - 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