\"tea party\" Treasurer-Candidate Kurt Schuller,
If I am elected, I will either succeed in helping to pass a constitutional amendment to eliminate the position or I will leave office at the end of my first term.
One term is my pledge to you, the voters and hard-working citizens of Wisconsin. I would be honored to earn your vote on November 2.
Mr. Schuller, the former Olde Country Buffet manager, who beat Dawn Marie Sass, who by all accounts was doing a great job. Yet Kurt Schuller ran on the platform of eliminating the office and padding his political resume.
Well now we have Scott Walker has introduced his budget, and guess who is unhappy!
Walker’s plan transfers duties to other agencies and reduces the two offices’ combined staffs from 21.7 positions to 12.45. Treasury’s budget would be cut from $7.4 million to $4.8 million…
But a shocked Kurt Schuller, a Republican who was elected treasurer in November after campaigning on the idea of closing the office, said Thursday: “They’re trying to relegate me to Doug La Follette’s status.”
“If you gut the office by two-thirds before anyone even gets a chance to look at it, it is stacking the deck (against its survival),” Schuller said.
Schuller said his plan was to “be active and visible and possibly build a credible political resume that shows the voters I can serve in the public interest, then hopefully run for another political office.”
“If this goes through, it cuts my ability to make a positive impact,” he said.
So now we see Mr. Shuller really had no interest in cutting the position and was using it as a springboard to bigger and better things. Unfortunately those bigger and better things were meant for Mr. Schuller, not the state of WI.
Walker can’t eliminate the office in the budget, only make it irrelevant. It looks like that is Schuller’s point. If the office exists he might as well have something to do. Those are two separate issues and you are confusing them. Now, if a constitutional amendment is introduced to eliminate the office and Schuller’s opposes then, then you will have something to write about.
If this office was relevant, then why would he want to eliminate it?
I missed the news story where he was in the budget meetings advocating for eliminating the position. I am sure that since his is an ELECTED position, that walker would confer with him when setting his budget…..
Not confusing anything, he ran and continues to run on whats best for schullers political career not whats best for the state.
By the way how long until we find he has returned a single penny to a fellow wisconsinite like his predecessor was so very good at doing?
What do you consider “best for the state” on this issue?
As for returning a single penny, I assume you mean unclaimed property? That’s what that office currently does, so I am guessing that will happen.
What I find more intersting that anything you bring up, is what you failed to bring up: he says “if I am elected, I will either succeed in helping to pass a constitutional amendment to eliminate the position or I will leave office at the end of my first term.” Am I mistaken in thinking that the amendment could only be passed in the same year that his first term ends?