MILWAUKEE — Although Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) has come to Wisconsin as the proud Republican representing Utah’s 4th Congressional District, the ordinary workers staffing the four-star Pfister Hotel recognize him as the veteran safety who won the 1980 Super Bowl with the Oakland Raiders.
While Owens’s congressional colleagues are a dime a dozen in the hotel housing GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump during the Republican National Convention, the Milwaukee Fire Department staffers assisting the hotel’s massively heightened security pose proudly for photos with Owens, who lets them model his iconic Super Bowl ring for the camera.
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