As the Wisconsin State Assembly prepared to vote on the proposal for a new Milwaukee Bucks arena, Representative of the 11th District Mandela Barnes was one of many in attendance who stood up to address those in attendance.
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Afforded the opportunity to voice in greater detail the reasons behind their decisions to either vote for or against the proposal, many of the assembly representatives made great points on why not just Milwaukee, but Wisconsin needed the arena to be approved.
Amongst a speech which included a litany of basketball references, there was one very simple thing that Barnes said that stood out though:
This is Wisconsin’s opportunity to Own The Future.