Will you close your M&I Bank Account?

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From: Michael Lauer
Date: Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: M&I
To: Bruce Colburn
Cc:

How's this?

With Governor Scott Walker planning to close schools and kick Wisconsin children off Badgercare and most families still struggling to get by in this recession, Wisconsin's largest bank has a responsibility to the people of Wisconsin. Taxpayers bailed out M&I Bank with $1.7 billion dollars of our hard-earned money. Instead of repaying that debt to taxpayers and instead of putting Wisconsin back to work, M&I executives spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on political contributions to Governor Scott Walker and other politicians. Then they engineered a sale of the bank to new Canadian owners that will put thousands more Wisconsin jobs in jeopardy while guaranteeing a $24 million payout for M&I CEO Mark Furlong. Most people in Wisconsin are still struggling to get through this recession, yet it's clear that corporations like M&I Bank are doing just fine. We're done waiting for big corporations like M&I Bank to do the right thing on their own.

We can no longer accept cuts to our schools and Badgercare while big corporations get additional tax breaks.

Wisconsin families are calling on M&I Bank and other large corporations to join with us to put our state back to work, stop cuts to schools and Badgercare, and help rebuild our communities.