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Article: Kohl under pressure from an old friend Wisconsin Center chair Gimbel stands in way or renovating Bradley Center
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 20, 2002
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Kohl under pressure from an old friend
Wisconsin Center chair Gimbel stands in way of renovating Bradley
Center
By BRUCE MURPHY of the Journal Sentinel staff
Tuesday, August 20, 2002
Attorney Franklyn Gimbel is the last man you'd expect to cause
trouble for U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl.
Gimbel and Kohl have been friends for nearly half a century, ever
since they were fraternity brothers at the University of Wisconsin-
Madison in the mid-1950s. But Gimbel has become the prime obstacle to
a high-level effort to bail out the Milwaukee Bucks, the NBA team
owned by Kohl.
For nearly three years, business leaders affiliated with the
Greater Milwaukee Committee and the Bradley Center, where the Bucks
play, ...