I am trying to interject some objectivity into our evaluations of candidates based on their record. There is nothing “specious” in hard cold statistics. I do not want to spread the kind of failure exemplified by a state being 40th in job creation and 50th in new businesses to the rest of the country.
I don’t think Walker has done a good job fiscally for Wisconsin at all. Walker seems to have position changes based on political expediency fairly frequently. He was against ethanol before he was speaking to farmers in Iowa,. He sponsored a gun control bill when he was in the legislature. Take your pick of which of his immigration positions you like best.
Then there are the ethical issues. WEDC stinks to high heaven as an agency that rewarded Walker donors. Even in the union fight, Walker gave the unions that supported him a pass. Thank kind of political cronyism bothers me.
Whatever happens in the campaign, I think we need to carefully examine all the candidates’ records, because you can be sure the DNC will.
You are not being objective at all. You post only negative articles, often from sources that are hostile to Walker. I have already demonstrated that job creation stats have little relation to actual employment stats, and you keep on trotting it out. Changing headlines from one describing Hillary Clinton, to one with Scott Walker’s name in it is not injecting objectivity. You did it again after a warning. I believe that is why you were suspended.
I don’t know where in the country you live, but you have not lived in Wisconsin, or worked there. I have. There is a reason why people on this board who actually live or work in Wisconsin like Walker so much. He’s been an exceptional governor.
Cruz is my #1, but I believe I can, and have, made points pro and con on both men.
WEDC dos not stink any more than all of the other state sponsored job creation agencies. It reprersents 6% of the deficit Walker eliminated in one year, and the % assistance of businesses benefitting from it corresponds roughly to Walker’s own margin. Just because Menards or Johnsonville gives money to the Walker campaign, it wasn’t to get the assistance, otherwise the 40% who didn’t donate would have gotten nothing.
Heck, WEDC isn’t even getting traction in Wisconsin. I mainly hear about it from you. The John Does were an effectively a colonoscopy of Walker and anyone who supported him.