Minnesota-Gov. Walker, welcome to a state that works (just sayin')
I love Minnesota. And not just because my father was born in the twin cities, or because they took over the burden of high speed rail costs to make the connection from their state to chicago when Walker dropped the ball. But because Minnesota, Wisconsin's neighbor has shown the country what a Democratic Gov. can do in a challenging economy by lifting all its citizen's up.
"The facts are clear: Walker and the Republican trickle-down economic policies have made it practically impossible for Wisconsin to recover from the recession, and the state consistently sits at the bottom of the region in private-sector job growth.
But I don’t fault Wisconsinites for electing Walker, who in turn destroyed their state’s economy.
Instead, I fault Walker for deceiving his constituents, deeply polarizing the state and using previous elections just to catapult himself into a presidential run.
The reality is, Walker can travel around Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, but his failed tenure as governor will forever be his shadow."
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentaries/300994551.html
"Walker, true to his nature, wouldn't admit that he is a failure or take any responsibility for the consequences of his policies and budgets:
"You've had the advantage of other than a two-year period of having Republicans in charge of at least one part of government for some time. Before we came into office, for many years there was a Democrat governor, a Democrat assembly and a Democrat Senate," Walker said, noting the state's peak 9.2% unemployment rate prior to his election in 2010 and its 4.6% standing now.
"You look at where we were at, where we started and where we're at today, there has been a dramatic change," he told reporters following his meeting with GOP lawmakers.
Minnesota's jobless rate has consistently been lower than Wisconsin's but also it never climbed as high during the Great Recession. Minnesota's unemployment rate has also tumbled from above 7% at Gov. Mark Dayton's first election to 3.7% now."
http://cognidissidence.blogspot.com/2015/04/walker-goes-to-minnesota-gets-burned.html