Honesty

By Jeff Simpson

Scott Walker is still upset that Ryan Braun "lied to us as fans".

The Milwaukee Brewers' Ryan Braun won't be getting Gov. Scott Walker's endorsement, at least not any time soon.
Walker said he and his two sons, Matt and Alex, all big Brewers' fans, were disappointed and angry "that he lied to us as fans."
In a telephone interview Tuesday, the GOP governor said that "it was bad enough that he broke the rules, but the fact that he didn't immediately fess up to it, that he dragged it all out...It's not just what he did, it's that he strung us out for so long."

Which is very interesting, since WMC recently spent over $800,000 to flood the markets with this ad:




Scott Walker did not let Kurt Bauer do all of his lying for him, he even jumped in himself:

 Gov. Scott Walker announced in a press release Tuesday that Wisconsin is now ranked second in economic growth for the first time in the state’s history, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s coincident index.

While a second place rating is great....the problem is that Scott Walker is lying to us as Wisconsinites.  See it is a fairy tale and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia made sure to let us know:

 Top officials with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia are warning Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce and others that they are misusing a monthly index produced by its top economists.
Walker in recent speeches has been touting figures from the “Philly Fed,” claiming they show Wisconsin’s economy as No. 2 in the nation. WMC has been using the same number in a series of advertising buys, thanking Walker for putting the state on the road to prosperity.
But officials with the Philly Fed, who have been following the situation in Wisconsin, issued a statement Friday saying it’s a misreading of their "Coincident Indexes" to try and compare one state to another.
They say the index — which is comprised of several different economic statistics including housing starts, unemployment claims and wages — isn’t designed as a ranking. The Fed does not calculate a ranking based on the index and never has.
Walker and WMC have also been quoting the Philly Fed’s “Leading Indicator," a 6-month forecasting of the Coincident Index for each state, to say Wisconsin’s economy is projected to show the second-largest improvement in the country.
“We do not consider state rankings based on the coincident and leading indexes to be valid,” says Paul Flora, Senior Economic Analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia in an email to the Cap Times.

The fact is Scott Walker's main promise of 250,000 as "the floor, not the ceiling" is one that has never had a chance to come true.  

Politifact lets us know there is no way he is going to reach it.    It is so bad that Walker's staff is trying to kill any realistic story about jobs in the press. 

While he has been a miserable failure at creating jobs in WI, Scott Walker has been successful at one thing - lying. 

 Scott Walker is the "most untruthful" Governor in the US.   

Instead of not voting for Scott Walker because he has been a mess for the WI economy, how about we vote Scott Walker out because he has no idea how to tell the truth?   

Scott Walker is caught in so many lies that he sets records and has not even had to call anyone to apologize..  

Let's hold the Governor of the State of Wisconsin to a higher standard than we hold the left fielder of the Brewers!  

Republican Honesty

It is so rare that when it happens it needs to be applauded!   Both of these rare moments of candor happened this week and both have a Wisconsin interest to them.

The first happened in Pennsylvania, where Republican House Leader Mike Turzai (R-PA)put into words what everyone knew to be true any way.  The Voter ID laws spreading throughout the country are intended for one purpose, and one purpose only - suppress democratic voters.  

“We are focused on making sure that we meet our obligations that we’ve talked about for years,” said Turzai in a speech to committee members Saturday. He mentioned the law among a laundry list of accomplishments made by the GOP-run legislature.

“Pro-Second Amendment? The Castle Doctrine, it’s done. First pro-life legislation – abortion facility regulations – in 22 years, done. Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done.”

Yes Mitt Romney's it is not Mitt Romney's policies, ideas, charm, message that will win the state of Pennsylvania, it is their newest Voter ID law.   Isn't that special!  For those scoring at home, how many cases of Voter Fraud in Pennsylvania?   ZERO.ZERO!

The second case of republican honesty came from one of the places you would least expect it - Scott Walker! 

First off a little background, scott Walker was recently the subject of a recall and after $40 million dollars, in campaign advertising, he was able to retain his seat, after well over a million Wisconsinites voted to remove Mr. Walker, here is what he had to say in accepting victory.

A day after becoming the country's first governor to win a recall election, a triumphant Scott Walker told his Cabinet Wednesday to put their energy into creating jobs and said he was taking steps to improve bipartisanship.

"We're going to spend the remainder of this term focused like a laser beam on creating jobs," he said to the Cabinet.

Unfortunately for the people who actually live in Wisconsin, this was NOT the truth.  This was a flat out lie.  The truth came today in an interview that he gave POLITICO:   To Walkers credit there were a few truths.

The Wisconsin governor, who does not rule out running for president in 2016 after winning his June recall election, wants to help elect as many GOP candidates as possible in 2012. He’s told Mitt Romney’s campaign that he will travel anywhere the presidential candidate thinks he can help. Walker plans to forcefully fundraise for the Republican Governors Association, which spent around $15 million supporting his last two campaigns. And the governor sketched out plans during a Monday interview to support a batch of candidates this year in the Badger State.

So what is missing from that paragraph?  (Hint it starts with J and ends with OBS).   Walker who was going to focus on jobs like a laser beam will instead out putting Wisconsinites back to work on the backburner, while he travels the country  trying to get republicans elected (which is apparently more important than people in Wisconsin working.  As Capper says - but wait there's more:

“Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I’ve been reaching out to CEOs,” he said. “There’s a lot of folks who probably would have taken a call from me before but are even more inclined now and are interested in what we’re doing because of all the attention.”

Yes not only has his ego grown tremendously, he thinks he can just call up any ole Koch if he wants.  

Finally he gets a chance to tell us exactly how he feels about helping create jobs here in WI (under scott walker we are dead last in the country in job creation), lets let him explain it as clear as can be:

“The nice thing in Wisconsin’s case is pretty much from now until the end of the year there is no legislative action,” Walker said. “Lawmakers don’t come back officially until January.”

Let's see they adjourned in April and are now done until January, yet they get paid a full time salary and cadillac benefits...at least this gives our legislature more time to complain about the high cost of teacher salaries, when they only work 9 months a year!  Yet again no J-O-B-S! 

To Summarize, a republican elected official let us know that Voter ID laws are BS and only in the books to suppress democratic voters and Scott Walker could not care less about Wisconsin and Wisconsinites he has bigger fish to fry!  

PS: GO read Capper's take on this also!!!