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Skipper_too 68G
4364 posts
10/7/2011 5:51 pm
Wisconsin Tea Party Governor Walker Lies Again and Yet Again.

Source: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

My comments in Blue

A new Wisconsin public-private economic development agency created by Republican Gov. Scott Walker spent almost $60,000 on iPads and 3G Service for them despite repeated claims by the governor that the state is "broke," reports the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

In his successful push to curtail collective bargaining rights for most public employees and forcing state employees to pay more for their health care and pensions, Gov. Walker repeatedly called his state "broke." "We're broke. We don't have any more money," he said in a news conference on February 21. In a speech on March 1, he said, "The facts are clear: Wisconsin is broke and it's time to start paying our bills today so our are not stuck with even bigger bills tomorrow." PolitiFact ruled his description of the state's finances as "broke" as "false."

The Republican-controlled legislature passed a law creating the public-private entity in February that Gov. Walker signed. The board consists of 13 members -- the governor, six Walker appointees and six chosen by the state Assembly and the Senate leaderships. Some Walker appointees donated to his campaign. Walker sees the agency as part of his plan to create 250,000 new jobs in the state.

A spokesman for the new entity said to the Journal-Sentinel that the iPads were cheaper than laptop computers and the department needed to upgrade its technology.

Walker said in December that he wanted the agency to have high standards for ethics. "We want to make sure that both from an ethics and open government standpoint and overall in terms of accountability that we have full disclosure and accountability."

This conclusively proves that the Koch brothers funded assault on organized labor via the Tea Party antics is nothing less than an outright lie. The Tea Party should be recognized for what it is. It is nothing more than the lap of their corporate masters. The Tea Party should be eliminated as the corrosive, retrogressive and repressive attack vehicle on the middle class of this country. The Tea Party has lost 25% of their favorability in the past two months for this very reason and this trend needs to continue.

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Skipper_too 68G

10/8/2011 1:28 am
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Thanks Gary, I agree with what you have stated.


Skipper_too 68G

10/8/2011 10:51 am
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I sincerely hope that Walker is recalled as he continues to lie about the state of the state.


Skipper_too 68G

10/9/2011 12:28 pm
    Quoting 60minman2:
    So now you are deleting comments you dont like even though they address the content of the blog. Somehow I knew you would..... Have a great day
I am not deleting comments. There are those comments that are not allowed because they violate my terms of use.

Oh and by the way, I don't think that I owe you any display of your comments since you have taken to deleting my comments to your blog on an ongoing basis...you should have learned a long time ago that you don't piss into the wind...got the picture?




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