Editorial: Scott Walker lacks real business experience

This is a point that needs to be hammered home every day between now and November 4. Gov. Scott Walker is trying to distract voters from his record by yelling about “outsourcing.” Where does he get his business expertise? Other than getting a part-time sales job during college, he did…

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Report: WEDC awarded taxpayer funds to four more companies that outsourced WI jobs

Just a few weeks ago news broke that the WEDC, Gov. Scott Walker’s “job creation” agency, had awarded millions of taxpayer dollars to companies that outsourced Wisconsin jobs to foreign countries. In response to that bad news, Gov. Walker’s reelection campaign went on the offensive to attack Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner…

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Scott Walker’s flip-flop on outsourcing

Back in 2012, Gov. Scott Walker shared his thoughts about what he thought of President Barack Obama’s attacks on his GOP challenger, Mitt Romney, over the issue of outsourcing. At the time, Walker made it clear that he felt President Obama was attacking Romney on outsourcing to distract voters from…

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Scott Walker’s WEDC doles out millions of dollars to companies that outsourced WI jobs to foreign countries

THIS is Scott Walker’s Wisconsin….giving millions of taxpayer dollars to companies that sent WISCONSIN jobs to foreign countries. At least two companies that received financial awards from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) later outsourced jobs to foreign countries, with one of those companies receiving a second WEDC award after…

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Mitt’s Lies are Actionable

For a long time Mitt romney has said he left Bain Capital to run the 2002 Olympics in 1999.  He has done so, in part to protect him from allegations that Bain profited from bankrupting companies and from outsourcing jobs.  After all, both of those actions plays against the Romney…

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Workin’ at the car wash….

Every once in a while, our own Ron Johnson pops his head out of his hole and looks for his shadow. Unfortunately, that is never a good thing for the people of Wisconsin. He did not use his newly purchased position to advocate for more jobs in WI, nor for…

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