Ron Johnson Doesn’t Want to Answer?

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel featured GOP US Senate candidate Ron Johnson in it’s Election 2010 coverage on Saturday September 25th, 2010. The may thrust of the conversation was federal spending and what Mr. Johnson thought was a better idea for federal budgeting. But he still hasn’t defined where he thinks the meat of federal waste and spending resides and where he thinks the major cuts should come from.

While running on a theme of smaller government, GOP Senate candidate Ron Johnson said Friday he did not plan to lay out in detail what federal programs he wants to cut, suggesting it would only serve to make him the target of attacks.

There’s billions of dollars . . . that from my standpoint would be available for cutting. But I’m not going to get in the game here and, you know, start naming specific things to be attacked about, quite honestly,” said Johnson during an appearance at the Milwaukee Press Club.

So Mr. Johnson once again is satisfied speaking in generalities and not specifics. He implies he has specific ideas on what to cut but he isn’t willing to share it with the media or prospective voters because he is afraid of ridicule? Seriously? It’s an election campaign for the US Senate for crying out loud. If this is one of the issues he sees that separates him from incumbent Senator Feingold, I’d think it would be imperative to detail the differences between the candidates.

Mr. Johnson states later in the article that he is unused to being a newsmaker…so is he too thin skinned to make his views public? Isn’t putting your ideas out there part and parcel of being a successful business leader? Or is it that he isn’t comfortable articulating his ideas to the press or general public yet? But communication skills are always high on the list of leadership skills from every business consultant I have ever read, so shouldn’t communication be one of Mr. Johnson’s talents as a successful business leader? Or is there a fear that his ideas won’t stand up to the light of day? Success in business is usually the ability to provide the new ideas necessary to grow and develop the business, but just as importantly the ability to articulate those ideas to the workforce and actually move the company in the direction required to be successful. Mr. Johnson doesn’t seem to be able or willing to perform the tasks indicative of a successful businessman in his quest for the US Senate seat.

And lastly, the article states that Mr. Johnson ‘fielded questions from reporters about a long list of issues.’ When from the gist of the article itself, it appears that, no, actually he didn’t!

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7 thoughts on “Ron Johnson Doesn’t Want to Answer?

  1. Success in business is usually the ability to provide the new ideas necessary to grow and develop the business, but just as importantly the ability to articulate those ideas to the workforce and actually move the company in the direction required to be successful.

    Au Contraire…ROJO has proven that success in business means marrying the owners daughter and having your father in law be your only client.

  2. Marrying into a business is one thing…but he could have as easily run it into the ground by now as to have grown it…I’ll give him a some leeway here on being a businesssman.

  3. I would agree with you except for the fact that it appears as his only client was his father -in-law. Hardly free market economics.

    1. I would agree with you except for the fact that you’re wrong & don’t seem to have any understanding of the specific company or how publicly traded companies operate in general. Johnson’s father-in-law (who founded the company that bought out Bemis) has dead since 2004 and out of management of the company (hands-on, day-to-day or otherwise) for much longer. His brother-in-law is still chairman of the board, but hasn’t been President or CEO for quite awhile either. Bemis is a publicly traded company with board of directors made up of about a dozen women & and men elected by the shareholders. If you think the company doing business with a supplier who is not delivering, or overcharging is something the board will look the other way for, as will the audit committee, corporate governance committee and shareholders you’re mistaken.

  4. To be fair, PACUR does have more than one client.

    Granted, their biggest client is a company owned by Johnson’s in-laws, but he does have more than just that one client.

    1. Granted, their biggest client is a company owned by Johnson’s in-laws,

      Bemis is not owned by his in-laws, it’s owned by it’s stockholders.

  5. Empty promises don’t offend the electorate.

    The GOP is promising lower taxes, hardly any spending cuts and shrinking debt. Anyone who is not a fool knows that they are making empty promises. They are bound to fail, but they figure that if they are vague enough, that won’t matter.

    Zach, PACUR started with only one client and appears to still get two-thirds from that same client.

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