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Walker And Land Use Atop List Of Most-Read Items On This Blog Last Week

October 1, 2011 by The Political E...

Along with a Federal warning about meddling with Wisconsin's mining and water-management procedures, and trip to Sprawlville to see and photograph the new Interchange to Nowhere:

Gov. Eagle Scout (Walker) May Tilt Recall Process ... Sep 27, 2011

After Claiming He "Never" Made Negative Comments About Teachers, Walker Scrubs His Website of Negative Comments About Teachers

September 28, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

On Monday, Governor Walker appeared on national tv with NBC's Brian Williams and claimed:

"Go back to all the statements I've made and I you'll never find one time when I've said anything but great things about our teachers."

I did a spit-take when I heard that... "never find one time"?!?

I knew that one needs to only go to Walker's website, where he says these "great things about our teachers":

"Wisconsin’s educational system is failing our children"

and really, really great thing:

"underperforming teachers cannot be allowed to continue to fail our children"

How do I know?  Because we busted Walker for making similar claims earlier this year and still have the webpage on the video below.

However, when I went back to his webpage this morning, the negative comments about teachers and the entire "education" section had been mysteriously removed from his website.

Hmmm... not very truthful behavior from Mr. Eagle Scout.

Governor Walker defends himself against his own education record

September 27, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

Gov. Walker was one of the guests on NBC's Education Nation summit yesterday. Brian Williams read some sections of the open letter that was sent to him by Heather DuBois Bourenane from her blog Monologues of Dissent.  The open letter calls out numerous examples of the education climate that Walker has fostered in the state, and the reasons these stances will be bad for education in the long run.

Walker as always was on the defensive on this and spoke about the short-term gains to be had from his plans (this seems to be the common theme in his 'grab it while you can' political strategey) while trying to smooth over the fact that the current education climate is forcing droves of more experienced teachers to consider retirement. I've included some video both of the Education Nation event, and from Heather DuBois Bourenane appearing on last night's Ed show.