Walker's future tombstone epitaph: "Here Lies Scott Walker...
...So What Else Is New?"
http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2012/feb/17/scott-walker/gov-scott-walker-says-247000-job-capco-program-was/
Gov. Scott Walker says $247,000-per-job CAPCO program was approved by former Gov. Jim Doyle...but did Doyle approve the plan?
The legislation creating the program was introduced in 1997 and passed and signed into law the following year -- not by Democrat Doyle, but by then-Gov. Tommy Thompson, a fellow Republican now running for a U.S. Senate vacancy. Doyle didn’t take office until 2003, five years after the CAPCO bill was signed.
Indeed, the proposal had bipartisan support. It was authored by Democratic state Sen. Gwen Moore, now a congresswoman from Milwaukee. Among the 89 members of the state Assembly who voted in favor of the bill March 25, 1998: Walker himself.
Our conclusion: In the wake of a story about poor jobs results of a state-sponsored program, Walker sought to pin the blame on his predecessor, Jim Doyle. But he was off by five years, two governors -- Thompson and successor Scott McCallum -- and one political party. As governor, Doyle didn’t have anything to do with approving the CAPCO bill. But as an Assembly member, Scott Walker did. Pants on Fire.
