Guys if you're spending 23 million dollars against about 3 million and you're still loosing, it speaks volumes of how pathetic this guys tenure has been!
Yes, it is quite pathetic how loser walker has not gotten ahead in the polls, and his approval rating is actually dropping steadily, despite the huge advantage in MONEY and most of it from out of state donors!
Hey Occupy Dufus: what's pathetic here is you liberal union losers are now crying foul that Walker is winning and your candidate is tanking! All people of Wisconsin have to do is see the positive results Walker has done in his short time in office. The State deficit has been wiped out and now more people are working! Of course you corrupted Union buddies are crying like little girls, because you're Milwaukee Mayor candidate is also a hypocrite! This is the guy who used Scott Walker's financial methods to slash his own red ink off the books! So, now that you're losing (no surprise here) that you're crying about where his support money comes from? How about grass roots America? People who stand up against corruption and fat cats are the ones donating to Walker's campaign! Not Koch Brothers or ALEC! But, we know, for sure, that your Unions are being backed by George Soros, the liberal communist!
Of course a lib like you cannot stand a governor that fixes the defecit crisis, defecit increases are the mainstay of the left, never let a success go unpunished especially if it's achieved by a conservative.
He walked in - gave tax cuts to the rich and then cried "OMG! There's a deficit!" Ya think?
JUST like Bush who started two wars and tried to pay for them by giving a tax break to the rich!
Beware: The first thing Hitler did was to shut down Unions!
Scott Walker has the worst job-creation record of all 50 states. Another typical do-nothing right wing conservative too busy helping his rich corporate buddies while ignoring the middle class.
Nottblu: You need to read, our debt crisis in Wisconsin is not fixed, we are dead last in job creation and the Governor is under John Doe investigation for possible criminal activities prior to becoming Governor. There is absolutely no good reason to vote for him.
What? No way!!! Where did you get that air brained idea? If you don't believe me try reading the letter below:
Letter from a Republican: Wisconsin Cannot Afford Scott Walker (or Scott Fitzgerald) by Gary Olson Governor Walker openly claims that his administration balanced the state budget that required closing a $3.6 billion deficit. My Senator (Scott Fitzgerald) frequently touts that the GOP led budget created a surplus, while not raising taxes. As a tax payer, much of this sounds rather appealing until I started putting pen to paper on the figures. So much of this just does not seem to add up when you look at the funds that were cut versus the level of spending that was approved in the 2011-2013 state budget. How exactly did we close a $3.6 billion deficit, generate a $306 million surplus, and increase the overall budget spending by $1.1 billion while being completely broke and not raising taxes?
I believe that the 2011-2013 budget pushed a lot of debt into the future by delaying debt service payments until 2013 and well beyond. Debt structuring through the sale of bonds and other means of borrowing into the future are not limited to Scott Walker or the Republicans, it is a practice used by both parties. It was bad enough that Governor Doyle did this as much as he did; now we have a governor who campaigned against doing those things, only to be demonstrating otherwise. On top of that, Governor Walker is talking about covering the $143.2 million deficit (that was supposed to be a $306 million surplus) by borrowing even more money so that we do not have to raise taxes or issue another Emergency Budget Repair Bill for the budget that we are only nine months into. What impact will this move have on our state's existing long term debt service and our ability to keep up with the payments?
The state standard for debt-to-revenue ratio is no greater than 4%, with a target debt ratio of 3-3.5% of General Program Revenue. When Governor Walker took office, Wisconsin's debt ratio stood at 2.28%. That is not a plug for the former governor or a jab at the current governor, they are simply the numbers according to the June 14th 2011 LFB memo from the state. Under the 2011-2013 state budget, our debt ratio is expected to grow to almost 5% next year. In 2013-2014, it will grow to over 5%, and it could easily be much higher if we do not see a generous 4% growth in revenue. Forget about asking how close we are to 4% growth because currently our revenue is actually declining according to recent LFB figures.
I do not believe that Wisconsin has ever seen a debt-to-revenue ratio of 5%, much less higher? Furthermore, I do not feel confident that we will see a 4% growth in revenue anytime soon, but I will be very happy to be wrong about that. As a taxpayer, I am deeply concerned about the amount of debt that we took on and the delayed interest that we will be paying on over the next ten years so that we can say that we have a balanced budget today.
Yes, I am a Republican but that does not mean that I have to buy into everything that my Governor or my Senator are doing, especially when it comes to the handling of my tax dollars. My confidence in the two of them has been shaken and I am deeply worried about our financial future as a state if we continue balancing budgets in this manner.
Walker solved the debt crisis: lay off teachers, firefighters, and police officers while giving huge tax breaks to billionaires. And then blame it all on the middle class. Typical anti-American conservative.
Walker and his republican minions tried to rob the tax payers of Wisconsin of their public owned power plants worth billions. As typical republicans they tried to do it at a no bid goes at any price sale.
Walker is the same one who replaced County union member security guards with private contractor security guards from a company who's employees dressed up in coconuts and drank vodka from each others rectums at a party.
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JUST like Bush who started two wars and tried to pay for them by giving a tax break to the rich!
Beware: The first thing Hitler did was to shut down Unions!
If you don't believe me try reading the letter below:
Letter from a Republican:
Wisconsin Cannot Afford Scott Walker (or Scott Fitzgerald)
by Gary Olson
Governor Walker openly claims that his administration balanced the state budget that required closing a $3.6 billion deficit. My Senator (Scott Fitzgerald) frequently touts that the GOP led budget created a surplus, while not raising taxes. As a tax payer, much of this sounds rather appealing until I started putting pen to paper on the figures. So much of this just does not seem to add up when you look at the funds that were cut versus the level of spending that was approved in the 2011-2013 state budget. How exactly did we close a $3.6 billion deficit, generate a $306 million surplus, and increase the overall budget spending by $1.1 billion while being completely broke and not raising taxes?
I believe that the 2011-2013 budget pushed a lot of debt into the future by delaying debt service payments until 2013 and well beyond. Debt structuring through the sale of bonds and other means of borrowing into the future are not limited to Scott Walker or the Republicans, it is a practice used by both parties. It was bad enough that Governor Doyle did this as much as he did; now we have a governor who campaigned against doing those things, only to be demonstrating otherwise. On top of that, Governor Walker is talking about covering the $143.2 million deficit (that was supposed to be a $306 million surplus) by borrowing even more money so that we do not have to raise taxes or issue another Emergency Budget Repair Bill for the budget that we are only nine months into. What impact will this move have on our state's existing long term debt service and our ability to keep up with the payments?
The state standard for debt-to-revenue ratio is no greater than 4%, with a target debt ratio of 3-3.5% of General Program Revenue. When Governor Walker took office, Wisconsin's debt ratio stood at 2.28%. That is not a plug for the former governor or a jab at the current governor, they are simply the numbers according to the June 14th 2011 LFB memo from the state. Under the 2011-2013 state budget, our debt ratio is expected to grow to almost 5% next year. In 2013-2014, it will grow to over 5%, and it could easily be much higher if we do not see a generous 4% growth in revenue. Forget about asking how close we are to 4% growth because currently our revenue is actually declining according to recent LFB figures.
I do not believe that Wisconsin has ever seen a debt-to-revenue ratio of 5%, much less higher? Furthermore, I do not feel confident that we will see a 4% growth in revenue anytime soon, but I will be very happy to be wrong about that. As a taxpayer, I am deeply concerned about the amount of debt that we took on and the delayed interest that we will be paying on over the next ten years so that we can say that we have a balanced budget today.
Yes, I am a Republican but that does not mean that I have to buy into everything that my Governor or my Senator are doing, especially when it comes to the handling of my tax dollars. My confidence in the two of them has been shaken and I am deeply worried about our financial future as a state if we continue balancing budgets in this manner.
Sincerely,
Gary Olson, Lake Mills
Walker is the same one who replaced County union member security guards with private contractor security guards from a company who's employees dressed up in coconuts and drank vodka from each others rectums at a party.