Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley is trying to charge a concerned citizen $4,888 to review his office’s emails about the sales tax increase. In a response to a separate request, his office also revealed that he has no written plans that “deal with reducing the murder rate within Milwaukee County.”
Crowley was once so ecstatic about raising the regressive sales tax, which hits poor people harder, that he celebrated by cutting cake. However, now that he’s running for governor, the Democrat is trying to stick a big bill on citizen activist Orv Seymer. Seymer has long been concerned about taxes; he was involved in the citizen revolt after the Milwaukee County pension scandal.
Crowley’s office informed Seymer that he had made a total of 17 open records requests to the Milwaukee County Executive’s Office. Bailey Davison signed the response letter, and it is on Crowley’s letterhead.
The open records response from Crowley’s office referred to the sales tax request this way:…