Will the Republican convention be good for Milwaukee businesses?

With 50,000 visitors estimated to visit the city, most restaurants are hoping for a boost, but some are shunning the event entirely

For Ricky Ramirez, posting stupid shit" on the Facebook page of his bar, the Mothership, is one way he draws in customers to taste the clever cocktails he crafts in Milwaukee's trendy Bay View neighborhood.

Yet a March post that Ramirez wrote in his typically profanity-laced, punctuation-free style declaring that the bar would close over the period of the Republican national convention, which begins in Wisconsin's most populous city next week, brought him the sort of attention he never wanted.