Scott Walker
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
Ah, State Sen. Mary Lazich, (R-New Berlin) - - Wisconsin's gift to political theater that keeps on giving.
On Thursday morning she's scheduled
a hearing on the state's use of traffic roundabouts - - that foreign roadway import that calms traffic, and saves on stoplight costs, but which Lazich finds overwhelmingly baffling.
City of Milwaukee Mark Belling fears a New Berlin roundabout, too.
Even though all turns are to the right.
Some other true-fact items from the Lazich archives:
* She proposed
criminalizing prank phone calls. This came after Scott Walker was embarrassed spilling the beans to the fake David Koch and earned her a shout out on "The Colbert Report."
* Led opposition to the Great Lakes Compact of 2008 even though it was making it possible for her home town to get the Great Lakes water supply it sought, because she believed it would destroy
Wisconsin's sovereignty.
To boldly go....Gov. Scott Walker's job-creation fervor so far has been mostly all tax cuts for corporations ... and hot air. The state's employment shortfall actually has worsened in Walker's first year but the one thing he wants us to believe is that "job creators" -- that would be businesses which, in the main, are creating virtually no jobs while shedding scads of others -- are "uncertain" about the future and thus need more hand-holding and palm-greasing from the state Capitol.
And look at this: Walker's antics have come at the cost of the state's highest budget in history, significant cuts in wages and benefits for state employees and more spending on loyalist hacks. He's replaced scads of civil servants with political appointees answerable to him, paying some of them tens of thousands of dollars more annually than the veteran professionals they have replaced, despite their lesser experience.
To boldly go....Gov. Scott Walker's job-creation fervor so far has been mostly all tax cuts for corporations ... and hot air. The state's employment shortfall actually has worsened in Walker's first year but the one thing he wants us to believe is that "job creators" -- that would be businesses which, in the main, are creating virtually no jobs while shedding scads of others -- are "uncertain" about the future and thus need more hand-holding and palm-greasing from the state Capitol.
And look at this: Walker's antics have come at the cost of the state's highest budget in history, significant cuts in wages and benefits for state employees and more spending on loyalist hacks. He's replaced scads of civil servants with political appointees answerable to him, paying some of them tens of thousands of dollars more annually than the veteran professionals they have replaced, despite their lesser experience.
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
Jeff Wagner is AM 620 WTMJ talk radio's second-banana, but that doesn't mean he can't create a laughingly large contradiction that veers into genre self-parody.
On his Monday program, Wagner was belly-aching about the year-long closing of the I-94 airport connecting spur due to regional freeway reconstruction and expansion - - a project that he and the other conservative talkers have long-supported.
Yet he complained and he whined just like the kids in the back seat on a long road trip to Grandma's house: "Are we there yet, are we there yet?"
"A year...a year," Wagner whinnied, as if he didn't know the basics of highway construction.
And a reality he helped make concrete.
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
Republican legislators who oppose transit, taking their cues from anti-rail Gov. Scott Walker, having this year eliminated regional transit authorities and further study of a commuter rail line from Milwaukee to nearby lakefront stops in Racine and Kenosha, succeeded last week getting the Feds to transfer commuter rail funding
to other states.
This comes less than ten months after Walker turned back $810 million in federal funding to build an Amtrak/Midwest High-Speed rail connection from Milwaukee to Madison and make other improvements to existing Amtrak service from Milwaukee to Chicago.
Walker and the legislature are proceeding with a fresh $1.7 billion reconstruction and widening to the so-called Zoo Interchange at the Milwaukee/Waukesha County line west of the City of Milwaukee, and are forging ahead with other major highway projects, including widening and expansion of I-94 from Milwaukee to the Illinois state line and preparing for a new, $1 billion lane addition ti I-39/90 from Rockford at the Illinois line north to Madison and perhaps all the way to the Wisconsin Dells.
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