Will Potawatomi stiff Milwaukee on new jobs? Or is it more anti-competition hypocrisy?

We’ve all seen and heard the current $200,000+ ad buy paid for by the Potawatomi as part of their overall effort to maintain their monopoly and restrict competition . . . and hurt Wisconsin. One of the red herrings in the Potawatomi campaign is a claim that “there are no jobs” for Milwaukee’s central city residents at the Kenosha casino.

It seems that consistency of message isn’t one of the Potawatomi’s strengths. On the contrary, the ad campaign shows again that the Potawatomi will say and do anything to hold on to their monopoly – even when their words don’t match their actions.

Here’s the story: Potawatomi recently placed ads in Milwaukee minority newspapers claiming the Kenosha casino won’t hire Milwaukee residents. The ads – Potawatomi used some of their bulging bankroll to go so far as to translate the ads into Spanish – falsely implied that only Kenosha and Racine residents would get jobs and there would be no opportunities for those from Milwaukee’s central city. That, of course, is a bogus claim, and we can examine that in detail another day.

Claims like the ones in the July 18 Milwaukee Community Journal ad seem to be in direct contradiction to the big job fair the Potawatomi had to help fill positions created by the $240 million expansion of their Milwaukee casino. And where did the Potawatomi hold the job fair? Milwaukee’s central city? Milwaukee’s south side? Somewhere in the Milwaukee county suburbs?

Nope. The Racine Marriott.

The Potawatomi dropped more big bucks on a full-page, full-color ad in Kenosha encouraging Kenosha and Racine residents to apply for jobs at the expanded Milwaukee casino.

So let’s sort this out:

• Potawatomi makes bogus claim that no one in Milwaukee will get jobs at the Kenosha casino
• Potawatomi holds job fair for Milwaukee jobs in Racine
• Potawatomi buy full-page, full-color ad in the Kenosha News to promote the job fair in Racine

It’s hard to make this stuff up, folks, but the Potawatomi are making this blog easy to update by often showing their anti-competitive hypocrisy on an ongoing basis.

They can’t have it both ways, even if they pay for it.

Stay tuned for the next installment.

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