MILWAUKEE, March 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- M&I Bank
(M&I) today issued the following statement in response to a
letter it received from a union group threatening to boycott
M&I if M&I does not publicly oppose Governor Walker's
budget repair bill.
M&I has not taken, and will not take, a position either for
or against the budget repair bill. As M&I has publicly stated
before:
- M&I has not contributed to any candidate and did not
contribute to Governor Walker or Mayor Barrett in the last
gubernatorial election.
- M&I has over 6,000 employees in Wisconsin, and, in the great tradition of
political freedom in this country, those employees have the right
to contribute to the candidate of their choice.
- M&I employees contributed to both Wisconsin gubernatorial candidates in the last
election.
M&I is proud of our tradition of standing with teachers,
nurses, police officers, fire fighters, and other dedicated public
employees to support, improve, and grow Wisconsin communities. M&I has 188
branches in cities, towns, and villages throughout Wisconsin, and M&I employees work
side-by-side with these dedicated public employees in civic
endeavors across the state.
M&I Bank is an affiliate of Marshall & Ilsley
Corporation (NYSE: MI), a diversified financial services
corporation headquartered in Milwaukee,
Wis., with $51.9 billion in
assets. Founded in 1847, M&I Marshall & Ilsley Bank is the
largest Wisconsin-based bank, with
188 offices throughout the state. In addition, M&I has 53
locations throughout Arizona; 36
offices along Florida's west coast
and in central Florida; 33 offices
in Indianapolis and nearby
communities; 26 offices in metropolitan Minneapolis/St. Paul, and one in Duluth, Minn.; 17 offices in the greater
St. Louis area; 15 offices in
Kansas City and nearby
communities; and one office in Las Vegas,
Nev. M&I also provides trust and investment management,
equipment leasing, mortgage banking, asset-based lending, financial
planning, investments, and insurance services from offices
throughout the country and on the Internet (www.mibank.com or
www.micorp.com).
SOURCE Marshall & Ilsley Corporation