But he's lying.
Two news stories on this denial by Walker. I just posted about the first one in LBN:
http://wtaq.com/news/articles/2011/apr/18/gov-walker-plans-financial-martial-law-absolutely-/(DU breaks the link above, which ends in a hyphen and a slash. Here's the ow.ly shortened URL:
http://ow.ly/4CPxP )
http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/120058874.htmlAs I posted last Friday
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x900810they set up a promotional site trying to sell people on this idea back in February. The project seems to be spearheaded by Joint Finance Committee Chairwoman Alberta Darling, and there's no way Darling would be involved in setting up a website that talks about a "statewide fiscal stress test" for local governments without Walker and the Fitzgeralds and other influential Republicans aware of this, too.
They were apparently hoping, when they launched the website and a Facebook page back in mid-February, to create an astroturf campaign and try to get citizens to say this would be a good thing for local governments in Wisconsin, starting with Milwaukee.
Then they ran into all the protests over the union-busting and apparently decided to keep fairly quiet about these plans for financial martial law (the promo site even links to a CBS story on financial martial law in Michigan, so they know exactly what it's called), though the site was still there, with forms asking people to sign a petition or submit personal stories (complaints about the way things are done currently in Milwaukee), and a note advising them that their names would be used later on the website or other advertising.
Fortunately Ed Garvey learned of what was going on and first broke the story on his FightingBob.com blog and in a radio interview later that day, and then Rick Ungar at Forbes picked it up (the story posted in LBN, a day after the news broke here in GD).
Now Walker is trying to distance himself from this plan.