Scott Walker

Milwaukee County Exec Determined To Save Transit

September 28, 2011 by The Political E...

Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele inherited a failing bus system pushed to financial free-fall by now-Gov. Scott Walker, but with some skillful planning and teamwork, he's buying some time until more sustainable fiscal supports can be found.

Here's hoping his plan contained in the 2012 proposed County budget is adopted and keeps things patched together.

Milwaukee County absolutely has got to have a successful transit system, or the region's corrosive unemployment and segregation are going to get worse, not better, as recent data have shown.

The Wisconsin Government (Unaccountability for Scott Walker) Board

September 27, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

Corruption in government occurs when politicians and those who influence them seek to undermine the spirit and literal intent of the laws in order to benefit their own narrow interests -- ethics be damned.

By which definition, Scott Walker is fast making himself one of the most damnable and corrupt governors in Wisconsin history, and in only a matter of a few months. Those of us Milwaukee County residents who watched his ethical failings while he was county executive saw this coming, but couldn't fully anticipate just how brazen and power drunk he would become once assuming the state's top elective office.

Worried that Walker might indeed actually face a recall petition drive from angry voters, the Wisconsin Republican Party is now apparently moving to give their maximum leader ultimate power over the rules created by the non-partisan Government Accountability Board (GAB). The board oversees elections, including recalls, and -- although this power already has been largely gutted by other partisan attacks -- oversight of campaign spending and reporting.

Scott Walker's "High Ethical Standards"

September 27, 2011 by Eye On WIsconsin

Recently Scott Walker was pressed on what exactly he knows about the John Doe investigation that seems to be engulfing his campaign, current and former staff and at least one contributor. In a blog item Dan Bice describes Walker's response as his "firmest defense yet of what he described as his high ethical standards." Let's take a walk down memory lane shall we?I wonder if those "high ethical

Three Cheers For Brian Williams

September 26, 2011 by The Political E...

He asks Scott Walker some tough questions on a national broadcast.

I know blogs and emails had gone Williams' way about Walker leading up to the show, and he delivered.