New budget memos contradict Gov. Walker’s promises

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http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=f50a48a1dace07a0794d44dbb&id=2de06bf646&e=5af47e6cda

MADISON – Voting on Governor Scott Walker’s 2013-15 biennial state budget is scheduled to begin today in Madison, two memos released by the non-partisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau on Wednesday confirm that Governor Walker failed to keep several of his self-imposed budget promises. The memos revealed 58 non-fiscal policy provisions and over a dozen pork barrel projects that are included in Gov. Walker’s budget proposal.

During his campaign, Gov. Walker pledged that he would “Strip policy and pork projects from the state budget,” and “End the practice of raiding segregated funds to pay for other programs.” Senator Jennifer Shilling (D-La Crosse), the ranking Senate Democrat on the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee released the following statement:

“This new information sheds light on the dozens of pork projects, earmarks and misplaced policy items hidden in this budget. The Fiscal Bureau has identified dozens of controversial policy proposals that repeal consumer protection laws, eliminate local control of employee residency, and expand the unaccountable private school voucher program at the expense of our local public schools. These provisions have no place in the state budget and deserve to be debated openly through the normal legislative process...

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1. Ho Humm! Not surprising. Doubt if any reprisal and/or mainstream press will follow this....

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2. I nominate "Governor Walker's promises" for the "Hollowest Phrase in the History of Politics Award".