OF THE BREAK IN AND ATTEMPTED ASSAULT ON HIS PHONE. TODAY, A NEW INVESTMENT IN MILWAUKEE’S ONLY BLACK OWNED BANK. THE MILWAUKEE HOST COMMITTEE FOR THE 2024 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION ANNOUNCED A. $100,000 DEPOSIT AT COLUMBIA SAVINGS AND LOAN AT FOND DU LAC AND NORTH. THE MONEY IS MEANT TO HELP EXPAND THE BANK’S SHORT TERM ABILITY TO LEND. IT’S PURSUING A GOAL TO HELP 100 MILWAUKEE FAMILIES BECOME HOMEOWNERS WITHIN THE NEXT YEAR. TO CELEBRATE THE BANK’S 100TH ANNIVERSARY. WE ARE THE ONLY BANK HEADQUARTERED IN THE POOREST ZIP CODE IN THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, AND WE’RE STILL LIVING OUT THE MISSION THAT THE HALYARDS HAD OF MAKING SURE THAT WE COULD INCREASE HOME OWNERSHIP. THE DEPOSIT IS ONLY A FRACTION OF THE MONEY THE HOST COMMITTEE MUST RAISE BEFORE THE CONVENTION. IN MILWAUKEE IN JULY. 12 NEWS POLITICAL DIRECTOR MATT SMITH JOINS US TONIGHT. MATT, WE’RE TALKING TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. PATRICK, THE LATEST ESTIMATES TONIGHT, ABOUT $68 MILLION NEEDED. THE HOUSE COMMITTEE SEPARATE FROM THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE IN THE MIDST TONIGHT OF THAT FUNDRAISING RACE. ALL. WE’RE SWITCHING AS SYMBOLIC AS TODAY’S DEPOSIT AT COLUMBIA SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION. A NECESSITY FOR MILWAUKEE’S HOST COMMITTEE TASKED WITH RAISING SOME $68 MILLION TO HOST THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION NEXT SUMMER IN MILWAUKEE. CURIOUS WHERE THE FUNDRAISING EFFORTS STAND. WE’RE ON TRACK AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SHARING SHARING MORE AS WE MOVE FORWARD. ANY BALLPARK OR NUMBER YOU WANT TO TALK? NOT TODAY, BUT BUT JUST KNOW THAT WE’RE IN GOOD SHAPE. THE FUNDRAISING NEEDED FOR EVERYTHING FROM CONTRACTING AND RENTING VENUES TO TRANSPORTATION FOR THE DELEGATES, THE LOCAL FUNDRAISING EFFORTS BEING LED BY THOSE LIKE REINCE PRIEBUS AND MILWAUKEE BUSINESSMAN AND PHILANTHROPIST TED KELLNER, WHO ALSO HELPED LEAD FUNDRAISING EFFORTS FOR THE 2020 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION THAT HAD ALSO BEEN SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE IN MILWAUKEE. I HAD NO NOS WHEN I WAS TREASURER OF THE DEMOCRATIC HOST COMMITTEE, AND I’VE HAD NO NO’S FROM CORPORATIONS, REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS. THIS IS ABOUT MILWAUKEE. THE HOST COMMITTEE PUSHING TO HAVE ALL THE $68 MILLION RAISED BY THIS SPRING. WHAT’S THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS AND MONTHS HEADED TO NEXT SUMMER? THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE, I THINK RAISING MONEY IS NEVER EASY. THINGS ARE GOING GREAT. WE’RE LUCKY THAT WE HAVE A GREAT CITY TO TO SELL AND GET BEHIND US IN THE IN TERMS OF INDIVIDUALS AND THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY ACROSS WISCONSIN AND THAT OTHER CONVENTION RELATED EVENTS ARE HAPPENING THIS WEEK HERE IN MILWAUKEE. SEVERAL HUNDRED MEDIA FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND THE WORLD WILL BE IN MILWAUKEE LATER THIS WEEK FOR A FALL MEDIA WALK THROUGH. LIKELY THE FIRST TIME SOME WILL SEE MILWAUKEE AND THE SITES LIKE FISERV FORUM AND THE BAIRD CENTER AHEAD OF NEXT SUMMER’S CONVENTION. THE CONV