Mike Braun
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736 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 5 Jun
Mike Braun’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So they could tell immediately they weren't talking to a politician.
They were talking to somebody that had done it.
So we knew what made sense when you're making a decision of this magnitude.
And from day one, when they were in the dining room right next to where I'm sitting, we had a good two-hour meeting.
They came to us, and all I was interested in is, is this going to be an honest discussion, not a bargaining ploy?
And I just came out and said it, and they knew immediately.
I knew what we needed to do and we made it easy.
We moved at the speed of business from that first meeting, which would have been sometime before Christmas.
And then when you got to get a legislature to come along, well, look what just happened in Illinois.
I coordinated that with our legislature to get the bill passed the first time through and to where they made a strong public statement that,
Those are things you don't learn in government.
You learn that kind of stuff in the private sector.
Okay, so we can talk about this stuff.
When is shovel in the ground moment?
Like what are we talking about here?
So a lot of the due diligence has already been done.
And in a real estate deal of this magnitude, we had to have the other entity, the city of Hammond, and Mayor McDermott has been as accommodating as the state government has.
So we've gone through most of that.
The critical point, I think, for the league,
and for the bears was to get this decision happening because it kind of closes the deal and now the urgency of what needs to be done will be done on any big operation big real estate deal make sure you
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