Anyone notice that Falk didn't win her own county?

You mean the same as Walker lost in his own county in the Governor's election 2010?

Yeah, Milwaukee is known for being a republican hot bed.............

Milwaukee County kept Walker in office for quite some time, Steve. Let's keep it real!
; )

So the majority of politicians in MKE are Republicans?

Hello?

At $100,000,000 a pop, we'll all be rich in no time!!

Steve ® - As a trademarked commenter for ALEC or some other Koch- type cell, and your online claims that you are a 1%'er and drive a Cadillac Escalade that you peel out at traffic lights, your credibility is underwater, except with your alternate persona, Alfred.

Are you taking medication for this delusion or were the shakes getting to you so you had to stop?

I'm looking forward to the streetcar. Having spent time in some fair-sized cities, I'm accustomed to hopping buses and subways. Milwaukee's mass transit, once a national model, is in a woeful state in comparison. Spending as much time downtown/East Side/Third Ward as I do, parking is a challenge.

What's nice about the streetcar is that is celebrates our history. My father told me that streetcars and trackless trolleys once ferried people everywhere. A special streetcar went practically to the door of old County Stadium. A special bridge (which began on Wells Street) provided an "express" trip over the Valley to the west side. And he and his friends would travel to Chicago via trolley, then transfer to the train (the Metra out of Kenosha is a vestige of that route). He also told me that many people commuted to Chicago daily for work by this method (and vice versa).

Unfortunately Milwaukee's mass transit fell slowly victim to increased automobile usage, as did the systems in many other American cities.

Bren:

Is Barret's street car going to solve your parking problems in the Third Ward or the East side? There's a reason why the streetcars of the olden days fell by the wayside as people started to drive...

►mass transit fell slowly victim to increased automobile usage, as did the systems in many other American cities.◄

Typical liberal solution. Force the market and spend vast amounts of tax money trying to create something that will never take hold. You can look at the recent "green" energy money pit if you need a reference. You already state why it has failed in the USA, so why continue the path of failure? Why rip up the streets that American's want to install a product they do not want?

Steve ® - You are delusional if you forget you wrote a month or more ago on Patch that you drive a Cadillac Escalade, peel out at traffic lights, are a 1%'er.
Maybe you are a robocommentator for ALEC, and I am talking to a machine.

I do have an Esclade. I do not peel out at lights. Defined by the socialists I am the 1%. Bren is the resident ALEC/Koch crack pot you can't steel her thunder.

So now what does this have to do with anything?

Steve ® - You say, and I very much doubt, you are a 1%'er with an Escalade. I have a comment from you of over a month ago that said you were going to peel out in the Escalade on your way home just to burn gas. What I am saying is, Steve, if true, you are not very relevant to others on Patch. If untrue, you are a fraud. . And as to the streetcar, if you ever went to San Francisco, I am fairly confident you would drive around cursing the cable cars, looking for a Burger King. You ought to come in from Slinger once in a while and sample urban life. Leave the .45 at home.

I must be relevant you seem to have to reply jibberish and personal half ass attacks to my every post.

Steve ® - I am saying you are not relevant to speaking for the great majority of us. Your blurts, most often profane and hateful, represent the fraction of the upper 1% that echo the extreme positon of the Koch Bros. and their selfish ilk. Your last comment implies you can dish it out, but can't take it. When you take extreme positions, expect a reply. That is a lesson in democracy. I am not ignoring you like most.

@Nick
You make a lot of scents.
(peeyou!)

It's one thing to make assertions when nobody is governor. It's another when somebody is governor.

People don't are going to be a lot less tolerant of Walker when the job numbers suck. Whine all you want about low unemployment in Wisconsin. Read the charts and those numbers got a running start coming out of the final two quarters of the Doyle administration -- which pushed into Walker's first quarter.

Once Walker's policies kicked in it has been all down hill from there.

No matter how you slice it, this recall is all Walker's. People are not as enamored with right wing talk radio policies as he thinks or you all do.

Be smug. Please. The millions of out of state money pounding the beach has done nothing for Walker. Now they will find out we shoot back.

Huh???

Watch. Tom Barrett's campaign will be run on any issue but his own record.

you're full of shi%.....when you can't say it in plain english, shut the front door!

Nick- it's not hard to think about the overly bloated state government, that WEAC ran the governor's mansion for many years and when they got kicked out they ran crying. Think about the teacher union's desperately trying to maintain their strong hold on school districts and their own members. Think about being forced to pay union dues even though you don't want to, where's the freedom in that? Think about getting manufacturing jobs back into Wisconsin which have been lost for years. Think about the fact of Shorewood school district saving somewhere around $400,000+ due to securing health insurance for teachers away from WEA Trust/WEAC. That's better then the stinkin' thinkin' that's been in this state.

Seriously? Well lets see you left wing radicals claimed over 1 million signatures to initiate a recall. Well lets see the vote total for all the dem gov selections did not equal 1 million. Hmmmmmmmmmmm
Gov Walker will once again send Mr Barret packing. Can you say 3peat loser. As for jobs seriously? Again lets look at the facts. A State that is constant turmoil with unknowns around every corner due to all you Libs forcing a recall, what business would look to expand in this State. It appears Gov walkers reforms are working and are now starting to take shape.
Also Milwaukee under Mr Barret is what at 25% unemployment, my mother in law just receieved a notice from the city informing her that her propertie value has once again declined drastically and there would be no change to her property tax bill. Barret ya ok

Somebody needs to take their nose out of the thesaurus and look at the real world. Glad your not on my team.

@Nick - You have to get down for this extremist right-wing crowd. They just do not get it. A study shows that simplistic right wing principles are easier to understand for lower I.Q. folks. Straight arrow thoughts are much easier than those involving nuance and compromise..

Barrett will lose again to Walker. Barrett and Falk together got less votes than Scott. People came out in droves to support Scott this time even though they did not need to. In 27 days we'll see if Walker's margin is as large as it was in 2010, or larger.

Barrett is the right person for what? carry on Obama's agenda in Wisconsin to increase unemployment to 8.2% or higher.

Are your eyes brown?

@Robert Merlin... Milwaukee County has absolutely no control over MMSD. The the voting majority of the board of MMSD is appointed by Barrett(mayor of Milwaukee), a minority of the members are appointed by the suburbs in the MMSD boundries.

@Robert Merlin .... um you may want to read this?? Facts before bloviating

http://city.milwaukee.gov/mmsdaudit

Actually Tom Ament ran the county into the ground with his pension scandal, the very same pension scandal which will plague the county finances for many more years. Even the current county exec tried blaming the county money problems on Walker instead of knowing the fact that Ament and his cronies pocketed lots of $$$$$$$$$.

At least the new County Exec, the able Abele, has managed to get the Sheriff to get rid of all those excessive deputies. There is no unincorporated land in Milwaukee Co. for them to even patrol. Walker was obsequious to the badges, as usual.

If you blame the executive that couldn't get anything through a thick minded mayor's (Tom barrett's) office, then we should blame the secretaries and the assistants and everyone else that has worked in the mayor's office for the last 8 years and watched the city crumble into ruins... And don't tell me those teamster semis that rolled into Madison from OUT OF STATE 16 months ago weren't loaded with millions of dollars in OUT OF STATE money....

@bushman - Not sure you know what you are talking about. The County Executive is a separate political role from any mayor in the County, and does not report up to anyone but the County residents.. Last I looked, the City had not crumbled into ruins. Get out of the bush, and come into the city. Maybe take in a play, a good restaurant, or a ball game.

NOT True. MSSD is run by a commission with 11 members, 7 of which are appointed by Barrett, and 4 by the mayors of the suburbs. Barrett therefore has a majority of the votes in his back pocket. The county has no vote per se on the MMSD Commission.

You thought wrong--and you know it but are too much of a Walker fan to admit it and my guess is that you will continue with your lies.

"I thought this whole recall was about restoring collective bargaining"

Meanwhile, here is a new ad. I saw it on my local evening news last night.
It is spot on.

Enjoy.

NEW AD: Did Walker really not know about felonies being committed right outside his office? http://bit.ly/JTXpjA #WIunion #WIrecall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzerUR7hZ4U

Scandal surrounds Scott Walker

May 7, 2012 by GreaterWisComm

Fifteen felony and three misdemeanor charges have been filed against top aides and associates of Scott Walker. Two have already plead guilty. Another had her home raided by the FBI. Investigators believe Walker's staffers installed a secret computer network inside his government office building so they could conduct campaign activities while working for the taxpayers. Walker wants us to believe he had no knowledge of these activities. How could he not have known what has going on in the offices of people he personally hired and worked only feet from his office?

Does you boss know you spend all day slinging left wing propaganda online?

Steve ® - It is good to be employed. Try it. Does your mom know you are on Patch again?

You're not very good at this internet thing. One minute I have an Escalade and am the 1% and the next I am unemployed and still under the control of my mother. It's not close to witty or funny.

Practice, tomorrow, 6am sharp.

Steve ® - I think I am much better than you at this "internet" thing. I do not easily believe your claim that you are an Escalade owner, you are a 1%'er, that you own a thriving business that caters to 1%'ers, that you are not "Alfred", and that you are not an intentional disrupter of blog posts.

Sally- Nice job presenting the facts to the clueless.

Well said. But you forgot street light "fees", garbage pick up "fees" (guess he thought residents would think he eliminated some taxes. Plus add on his shining 'achievement' of the 2.1 mile street car - one of the dumbest ideas yet.

You also forgot the 100 million $ streetcar (but we still have time to stop it, I hope!)

Thats awesome

Dirk, Walker proposed a very do-able 0% increase budget every year at MKE county, only to have the dysfunctional MKE county board over-ride his vetos of their spending attachements, including the ridiculous fish hatchery. You know better than to blame the budget increases on him. As for the rest of your personal swipe, well, I'll consider the source of the attacks.

@Gearhead - Must be making strong points you do not want to address, and you meekly shrink back into the corner and whine and get personal. What exactly do you mean "consider the source' in referring to me?. Kind of afraid to comment on those strong points? And as to Walker just sittin' there vetoing everything, why not get down and get dirty and actually work on persuasion, compromise and diplomacy with the Board. Same deficiencies he has now as Governor, can't deal with opponents except through power plays. If you want to bring up the fish hatchery, how about me bringing up the lack of maintenance on a building causing a slab to fatally fall on a teenager. Oh yeah, maintenance is not sexy to a demogogue.

Is this the part of the liberal brain where we blame Walker for pushing concrete on a teenager and Bush for creating hurricane Katrina?

Steve ® - Your incrdedible insensitivity to a dead teenager once again comes through. Yes, Walker cut budget for maintenance of structures.

Thats ok Jonah, Walker raised $25 million himself to fight the recall. I am sure as good hearted as Walker is he will chip in and pay for this himself. Wait, he needs the money for his legal fund....sorry.

Getting a little nervous now about the Recall, are you Johah?

Mike. Really? Walker really started the drive to petition a recall on himself. In perspective, I am sure as good hearted as the unions are they will chip in and pay for this themselves. WEAC trust should have plenty of money in the coffers from overcharging billions in healthcare over the years.

@Dirk-Again 1 million signatures but only 600,000 votes total for all the Dem candidates!!! Hmmmmm if I was you I would be the one getting a little nervous. Seeing that Walker alone got over 600,000 votes

Reingold...a flower just waiting to bloom.

Feingold...

Remember that Walker wasn't really running against a serious candidate. There really was no incentive for republicans to turn out and vote for Walker yesterday. He's going to have much higher numbers in June, while the Dems are unlikely to see the same gain in their numbers come June...

A non disillusion thinker would look at the 626K votes for Walker and understand that is a massive turnout of support, especially since they didn't even have to show up to the polls yesterday.

But I'm sure you fantasy land is all warm and fuzzy, I don't want to crush it too much.

@Cow Dung -- Really? No incentive for Republicans to turn out? Then why did the City of Brookfield have a higher turnout than for the GOP Presidential primary? The talk I was hearing at my polling place indicated that the Republicans were very intent on showing those recallers a thing or two.

As of today, Walker will be running against a serious candidate. I'm expecting you all to lock and load on Barrett, but we'll see.

Randy:

By 'no incentive', I meant that Walker didn't really need the votes to beat the token opposition. It's obvious that voters turned out in support of Walker to send the message to the Dems/Recallers that Walker has strong support.

I'm thinking that since Walker will now be facing 'real' competition, voter turnout in support of Walker will be much higher during the June election.

Who said most of Falk's support didn't come from Republicans voting for her instead of Walker.

Steve ® , Cowdung - It is called whistling by the graveyard, i.e., "delusional", Steve's word of the day. He must have had another doctor's appointment today. Everybody knew Barrett was way ahead of Falk, why bother with Dem voting.

Did you bother to vote yesterday, Dirk?

@Cowdung - In your mind, I voted the straight Communist ticket. I always vote, every chance I get, no matter how moot.
Wondering how may moderate Republicans and Independents voted for Barrett. I did not see any real push to get Dems to the polls for a moot primary.

Considering most republicans that are going to vote for Walker in 4 weeks - DIDN'T VOTE YESTERDAY
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Dream on, doofus. 100,000 votes in the Democrat primary were made by crossovers. That leaves the leftists with a lot fewer votes..

Wakers reforms are working Patriot to the tune of minus 29k jobs lost under Walker. Wisconsin is dead last in jobs. Is that working for you? Walkers reforms have pending layoffs for schools districts around the state, is that working for you? Walker is under criminal investigation and had establised a fund and paid over $300k to attorneys to keep him out of jail. Is that working for you? Walker has divided the state like no other political candidate, only 3 governors have been recalled in the history of the US, is that working for you. Walker has looted millions from the foreclosure settlement that was intended to help others and balance his budget...Is that reform working for you. Gezz, open your darn eyes to what is really going on here. Walker is an epic fail.

Patriot - Your eternal references to your extreme beliefs as "common sense" says a lot about your comments. If Walker is a shoo-in, why all the extreme angst coming through and paltry one-sided "analysis". of how Walker is so dominating?

@Patriot misspeaks:

"Gov Walker's reforms are working and he will continue to reform this State period!!!"

@Mike-Hmmmmm 29k jobs under Walker? Are you sure those losses did not come during the transition from Doyle to Walker? Because if I am not mistaking Walker has been in office for 1 year? Job numbers are moving in the positive direction. Current unemployment is what 6.8? Hmmmmm down from a year ago? Wisconsin has moved up in the rankings of Business freindly States from 40th to 20th? Hmmmmm Walker has not divided the State, Big Unions have divided the State. I have ZERO issues with Gov Walkers performance. Maybe if our State was not in constant turmoil the Jobs numbers would be a little better. We have only you progressive Liberals to blame for that. Again I think it was pretty evident with the recent elections and the vote totals. So most of Wisconsin like myself is very happy with the Job Govenor Walker is doing since that is why we elected him.

@Dirk-Extreme beliefs? WOW!!! The only extremists on here are all you progressive liberals. I mean come on, we have a President with the same beliefs as you Wisconsin progressives. How is that working for ALL OF YOU? i GUESS IF YOUR DEPENDENT ON THE GOVERNMENT, THEN ITS WORKING GREAT BECAUSE YOU HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO IS FIGHTING TO KEEP YOUR ENTITLEMENTS!!! nOW HE IS OPEN TO SAME SEX MARRIAGES!!! WOW

Patriot - No need to shout. Calling yourself Patriot and declaring its your "common sense" way or we are all a bunch of government dependents speaks volumes. Frankly, I am not a government dependent, but care about others and society as a whole. And that is extreme and lacking common sense in your mind?

TheNewDeal ‏ @TheNewDeal

Thanks to Walker, WI is Dead Last in Job Creation: http://bit.ly/Jtn1EZ It's Time for Change. Vote @Barrett4WI on June 5th! #WIunion #p2

#p3 Milwaukee losing thousands of jobs per month #89 Vote @Barrett4WI on June 5th! so we can elect a job creating machine#p5

@Mornimist-Hey there ya go. Vote for the guy who is responsible for 28% unemployment, lowered home values, failing school districts. Ya thats who I want running the State!!!! HAHAHAHA

I agree and I will continue to NOT vote for the lessor of two evils. Both candidates are uninspiring. It's really a shame.

lesser

Some of us really like Walker and want him to have the chance to complete the term that we voted him in for. We did not ask for or want this BS recall.
Pretty straight forward and simple to me.

@Satori...We don't care.

NOTE: There are actually over 3 million eligible voters in Wisconsin. Only 2 million came out to vote in November 2010. Hence the requirement of the 25% of the 2 million needed for recall signatures... http://elections.gmu.edu/Turnout_2010G.html

I believe a lot of people voted for Walker based on his campaign agenda. Now they have an opportunity to vote on his real agenda. Under those circumstances alone I believe the recall is completely reasonable and fair. I must point out that, regardless of the recall outcome, if Walker had been forthright about his ALEC affiliations to begin with, he would have saved our state the cost of a recall. For those who still believe the revisionist fiction that Walker campaigned on ALEC union stripping, consult Google. He is documented on video stating that he would negotiate with public employee unions.

Tom Barrett is a good, solid candidate. He lost by a small margin in 2010. He's not an ALEC tool. Perhaps, thanks to Citizens United, he can get support from the 13 corporations that left ALEC's radicalism behind! (Coke, Pepsi, Kraft, Yum! Brands, McDonald's, Wendy's, Procter & Gamble, Intuit, etc.--they have a few bucks to spend).

How many folks will vote against their self-interest and support Walker and the radical ALEC agenda, or embrace Wisconsin and the wellbeing of their neighbors, friends, and families with a vote for Barrett? We'll find out next month.

If Walker won the election by the majority of votes, why can't we see what Walker really can do for the state in 4 years. How can anyone accomplish anything if everyone wasted one plus year protesting in Madison, going to Chicago, fighting recalls. In four years if it is that bad you can vote him out, clear and simple. Barrett had 8 years to turn Milwaukee around, and failed now Obama also wants 8 years.

What normal person would run for office? Would you want to be exposed to all that invasion of privacy? Frankly, in the 70's in college I smoked AND inhaled! I was not always at my best. I wouldn't want my kid's every move investigated, either.

The media has made it so that a normal person (and yes, most normal people have skeletons in their closets) could not run for office. So we are left with really, odd people running. That and the pay isn't that great. Look at the presidential race - yuck and yuck!

Fact: Barrett leads Walker 47% to 46% in the last poll before the primaries. Barretts numbers will grow as he grabs the other Dems that were split with Falk. Your math is a little fuzzy Skiiny.

As you fear, the somewhat diverse Democrats will coalesce and get behind Barrett. Why? Because defeating Walker is job #1. Walker now pays for being so totally divisive, that there will be very few disillusioned Democrats not voting, and not voting for Barrett. Walker on the other hand, how could a moderate Republican really believe in hiim this time?

The only poll that counts is the one in June. The other polls are just miniscule samples of the population. Walker's people will be out IN FORCE next time, we will not have the leftists take the state back down the debt hole.

Democrats win polls not elections.

Mike you can convince yourself of that if you want , Fact is Republicans are very happy with yesterdays results. :)

hey skinny
Walker got 1.2 million votes in 2010 (can't recall the exact number but you can correct me).

Now where are the half million who did not show up yesterday???

Fantasy land

Feels like a soft warm blanket in the dead of winter.

"morninmist
12:04 pm on Wednesday, May 9, 2012

hey skinny
Walker got 1.2 million votes in 2010 (can't recall the exact number but you can correct me).

Now where are the half million who did not show up yesterday???"

97% of the vote is not enough? I think he won by a few points more than Barrett. Even though Walker's challenger was prettier than Barrett's.

Agree - speculation on both sides is silly at this point. Strong pulls on the both sides of the tug-o-war. Sadly, all this money that could be spent on encouraging job growth or fixing roads or working on the school system (especially MPS) & helping low-income folks has to get spent on all this ridiculous power play.

Let's cut the junk about name calling.

The only thing I will speculate on - is that there will be a RECOUNT!!

If memory serves, the major issue that caused this who landslide was the Collective Bargaining. And, shall we NOT forget that our current President of the United States gives LESS Collective Bargaining to his Federal Employees than the CURRENT State of Wisconsin Collective Bargaining laws allow. And let us not forget that these Collective Bargaining changes can be voted in/out as the legislature deems necessary. I'm sure when it was put in place years ago, there were more honest folks around. Sadly, corruption from the few has caused these "rights" to get questioned and as we can see already around the state - the medical insurance savings themselves has been indisputable.

As for other Collective Bargaining benefits, perhaps individual items could be looked at. But as I understand it, many of those that tied back to financial repercussions on the WI Taxpayer.

@ Greg
You are aware that Walker supports showed up better than expected . I mean he was a Lock . The Dems had to spent millions to turn out the vote and the support there was flat. Walker will start up his machine now and with the army of volunteers he doesnt have to pay .......like the unions......he will be a very tough uy to defeat. Again....Repubs didnt have to show up yesterday ...Walker had that in the bag before the day started .We all know that. But given that fact ...he still got more votes than Barrett and Falk Combined. They were both actively doing get out the vote campaigns spending MILLIONS.....Walker is now just starting that process. Youll see. I have very pleased with these results. Very pleased INDEED

Yes, I'm aware. Most of my post was quoting Moroninmist, my reply was at the bottom.

So you are going to vote for a monkey. Now we are really in trouble.

Union trouble ! After spending 5 million on their hand picked candidate K. FALK. She was soundly defeated in her home county by 31 points--62-31 OUCH! Let's just say that her career as a state wide politician has come to an End. Taxing Tom Barrett will find that same reality in one month when he losing state wide yet again
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/09/big-labor-loses-its-home-Dane-Madison-county-in-Wisconsin-recall

Anyone that thinks that the sum of 4 candidates votes can be combined for a single candidate, is an idiot. Some people that voted for the other democrat candidates hate Barrett.
There also was a cross-over vote of republican voters voting for Falk. We do not know how many but they were there.
In the end, if I had celebrated the recall signature numbers like some did, I would have expected a few hundred thousand more votes for the democrat candidates.
This looks like a major failure for the recallers and the left.

Hey Pete
The austerity model of Europe --that Walker has pouched and applied to WI--is NOT working in Europe (France just voted out their austerity President) and will not work here. Walker is out of office come June 5.

Walker got over 97% of the vote. How is he missing votes?

Greg

Walker has to catch up to his 2010 winning vote count. Half did not show up on Tuesday. Now you get it?

You can never win with emotion, or fake emotion in Barretts case. An argument can only be won with facts and Barrett could not come up with any.
Barretts speech was one of the worst that I have seen. He better be able to state what HE is going to do, if he wants a chance at winning.
I guess if I were a drum banging hippie the speech would have been awesome.

Tom Barrett is an articulate speaker if you have seen him at events (which I have). He has an understated personality, without a continuing need for attention as has our current governor. If you want someone who focuses on the people of Wisconsin, vote for Barrett in June. If you want someone who focuses on the ALEC agenda and himself, vote for Walker. Simple as that.

@Greg
Your side never wins with fake candidates. Shame on them and your party and you if you support such disgusting crap.

"health care availability is being cut"???
Please explain.

Wisconsin DHS preliminary plans to cut $28M from Badgercare budget following federal approval (modified) of cuts proposed by Walker administration.

While Walker faced a large deficit left by Jim Doyle and the Democrats, he invested $1.2 billion in new state funds for Medicaid, the largest influx of state funds in Wisconsin history. Nearly all of the new revenue that the State of Wisconsin brings in over the next two years will go to fund the programs and care that is needed by so many Wisconsin families.

Right On Clark ! :)

Welcome to the thread. Might I suggest scrolling up?

Blind hate will prevent some from ever seeing your good points.
Plain and simple, Governor Walker had to break a few eggs to make a cake.

Joan, our Standard & Poor rating dropped due to concerns about divisiveness in Congress. Money has been borrowed but that started earlier than the Obama administration. Concerning Wisconsin's jobs numbers and your other points, Scott Walker is using Wisconsin to push ALEC legislation and as a stepping stone to national attention (his 30 pieces of silver, so to speak). You can support this radical agenda or someone like Tom Barrett who is pro-Milwaukee and pro-Wisconsin.

Nuitari - How about as bad as Milwaukee County, of which Milwaukee the city is about two-thirds? Your wonderful governor was the Milwaukee County Executive for eight years!

Dirt: Barrett is a prime example of how good walker ran Milwaukee. Since Walker went to Madison and Barrett too over, the place has become more of a ghetto.
It is hard to understand why he won the primary if it is all about jobs. In reality it is all about a revote.

Dirk: Walker was the county exec, his proposed budgets were regularly 'adjusted' by the county board. Would you characterize the county board, at least those who are not indicted, as 'wonderful' also?

@sloowhand - Betcha there are many fewer indicted Milw. Co. Board members than indicted Walker staff members. Remember there are liberal, moderate, and conservative members of the Board, and from the suburbs as well as the City. The misconception seems to be out there that the County Board is a bunch of wild spending, corrupt "inner city" types. Not so, much less so than the County Executive office wasunder Walker..

@Alfred - Walker is from Milwaukee Co. He worked in downtown Milwaukee for eight long years in a big office suite. His job was as the head of Milwaukee County, his title being County Executive. Milwaukee is most of Milwaukee County. Many of his staff from those days are headed to prison for various crimes against the taxpayers and our Veterans. Walker himself has a legal team working to keep him from joining them.

Seems Walker's office was part of the blight, and a haven for parasites and moochers.

Alfred, Did you know that Milwaukee had three Socialist mayors?
http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/89804422.html
http://www.expressmilwaukee.com/blog-3038-john-gurda-on-how-the-socialists-saved-milwaukee.html
During that time, Milwaukee was a model for cities based on financial conservatism, park and sewer creation, created a model school system, and still managed to take care of our less fortunate. That said, these former mayors were of a different breed than the Socialists of today. Also to Steve....an Escalade is nothing but a gussied up Chevy. My HHR SS Turbo Panel is at least an honest Chevy that will do a verified 155 mph. Care to join me on track day in Elkhart lake? BTW, I'm conservative and tend to vote GOP.

And as a democrat, I apologize that we put up four ineffectual opponents to Walker and that when the primary votes were counted, the four of them together could hardly equal the vote total for Scott who had only a token opponent. State first, not party or union.

Funny thing is, she only gave HALF the amount of money that Doyle gave to Barrett's 2010 campaign. What a cheapskate she is!!!

At Weac...
You know --that the majority of Walker's money is coming from out of state big donors who are buying Wisconsin piece by piece. If you do not know that you are out of touch.

Luke-try to stay focused on the topic. We are talking about Walker's donors. But being the true RW Rovian--you will change the subject instead of addressing the facts.

@morninmist

Sorry, but you don't dictate what we talk about here. And in case you didn't notice, you made an ironic comment, which was pointed out by someone else. Then I added to the conversation, without changing the topic.

@morninmist
So you want to say that no Democrat has ever received campaign donations from out of their area? With 4 Democrats running for the spot the big money didn't know who to give money to, plus they're looking at what will be good investments since so much money is going to Obama's campaign. People who wish to donate get the opportunity to give it to whoever they like. Whining about out of state donations is just a waste of time.

This whole recall issue was started because Democrats decided to abuse the recall process. It began when WEAC went whining to whoever they could that big bad Walker was making teacher's have to actually pay more into their own pensions and health insurance (more inline with the private sector). How horrible to make the teachers be more personally responsible! WEAC can no longer have their way in the governor's mansion since Doyle no longer owes them for helping elect him governor.