It’s a very close race. The Marquette poll, generally regarded as the best WI poll, had Walker up 1% among LVs in its most recent poll–well within the margin of error. In other words, TURNOUT!
“Governor Walker has consistently eschewed sound management practices in favor of schemes or coverup and has routinely put his future ahead of the state,” Jadin, Wall and Bildsten wrote. “The result is micromanagement, manipulation and mischief. We have all been witness to more than our share of this.”
And whereas in most professions these would be considerable drawbacks, in the GOP they are a positive boon.
“…most notably the Foxconn Technology Group campus that could result in a $10 billion investment.”
AP’s evenhandedness is not showing here; the Foxconn ploy could just as easily result in a gutting of Wisconsin’s resources for decades to come.
May there be many more as election day approaches and then, WI voters, VOTE!!
More than any other politician, Walker leaves me SMDH. LePage I can at least explain as the product of vanity candidacy spoilers.
“micromanagement, manipulation and mischief.”
I think that’s the motto on Walker’s family crest. (The figure on the crest is a grifter rampant.)
Hey Scotty, time to phone Charles and get your next assignment.
Ah, Foxconn.
Where Fox met Henhouse and Wisconsin met Con.
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I’m verklempt.
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Jadin told the State Journal that he quit his $208,000-a-year job at the Madison Regional Economic Partnership on Wednesday so he could speak freely.
OK, now I’m more than just verklempt. Someone send this man a check!
Your high opinion of human nature is noted. Can you loan me a thousand bucks?
(I’ll send it to that Jadin guy, that’s what I’ll do.)
Why don’t they just come out and say it. Scott Walker is a little shit, with no integrity, who deserves to be taken out back and beaten with a baseball bat.
Good governance is not his gig, he is a thug who will do anything to obtain or keep power. The contrast between him and the WI GOP of old (e.g. Thompson) is stark. The only WI political figure who he really resembles is Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
It’s not the part where half the people in a state once famously sane fell for him. It’s the part where he’s running for a third term and they’re still falling for it I find confounding.
Wisconsin is kind of like North Carolina’s northern counterpart. Decaying factory working class that uneasily co-existed for a long time with aggies and university-led progressivism, renowned (not entirely fairly) for being kinda nice and polite. Both taken down at the same time by a Koch-funded raging asshole in 2010. But NC jettisoned its raging asshole at the first opportunity and here’s Walker, running even for a third term.
or maybe a griffon guls
I don’t know … he has a few things in common with Tommy Thompson.
I got pummeled around here the other day saying that Trump made Reagan look reasonable, I would say the same thing about Thompson.
I grew up in WI and now live in NC. It was a distressing double-whammy to see both states dissolve into teabagger nonsense simultaneously, and both abandon relatively liberal policies to follow the ALEC cookbook to the letter, gutting labor and education policies, openly disdaining health care and infrastructure, taking steps backwards in civil rights.
My friends & family back in WI are completely flummoxed at Walker’s popularity. All his initiatives flopped. He fell for a prank call from a DJ pretending to be David Koch, and the full audio was made public. He promised lower taxes and flubbed it. He promised jobs and blew a wad of dough on a new “job-creating” bureaucracy staffed with Walker cronies doing nothing. He turned down federal funds for healthcare and transportation improvements. And, amazingly, he survived a recall attempt (because even those Wisconsinites who hated Walker thought the recall was “unfair” and not the right way to replace a governor).
As you know, NC elected a Dem governor but he battles daily with a GOP legislature blatantly attempting to whittle his powers down to a toothpick. It will be a long time before either state recovers its liberal leanings.
It has since been instrumental in negotiating several economic development projects, most notably the Foxconn Technology Group campus that could result in a $10 billion investment.
Yep. “Could result” are the operative words when it comes to the $10B. Walker’s incentive plan works out to $370K per job. And that’s if the promised 13K jobs materialize. Meanwhile if Foxconn shutters the factory and lays off employees after a few years, it won’t be required to refund any tax accumulated tax breaks and direct spending. Some of the direct spending includes road and other infrastructure spending near the Foxconn facility.
So if Foxconn leaves early, Wisconsin will get screwed on the supposed full ROI (over a 25 year time horizon!!) but will have nice roads near the abandoned factory.
Those who know Scotty detest him.
Everyone else hates him.
Take a Walk, Walker .