If the President came to your home town, would the Mayor show up?
The Mayor of Waukesha, Wisconsin (where else?) won't ...
http://www.jsonline.com/news/waukesha/waukesha-mayor-jeff-scrima-to-skip-barack-obama-visit-to-ge-plant-b99193912z1-242475851.html
Waukesha Mayor Jeff Scrima describes both President Barack Obama and Gov. Scott Walker as political extremists in explaining why he plans to skip Obama's visit to a GE plant in Waukesha on Thursday.
The first-term mayor is comfortable in calling out Obama and Walker as extremists not for advocating extreme measures, as a dictionary might define the term, but for refusing to compromise, Scrima said Tuesday.
"Both Governor Walker and President Obama have failed to come to the center and compromise on issues," he said. "Madison and Washington, D.C., are more polarized than they've ever been. At the local level, that does not help us."
Scrima describes himself as a nonpartisan local official in offering another reason for his planned absence Thursday. "I've never been a member of a political party," he said. "The office of a local mayor ought to be nonpartisan for all people in the community."
Yeah, 'cause Waukesha is so bi-partisan.
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