With the window of opportunity closing, and the kitschy whale wall still infecting our urban landscape, County Executive Scott Walker needs to take a break from his race for Governor and actually do the job he is paid to do.

The Whalen Whale wall has to go. The State has given the county about a week to decide what it wants to do with the crumbling Courthouse annex (home to the whale) which is riddled with asbestos and regularly has chunks of concrete from it structure fall on the freeway below.

The county can realize about a 3+ million dollar savings if it decides soon. If not, the state will have to work around the countys crumbling annex.

Walker believes he’s still got plenty of political capital on the County Board and with a County Board Chairman that has been politically neutered with ethics charges, Walker should be in a position to walk in and lay out what needs to be done. If he fails in this easy to accomplish project, it will show Wisconsin voters whether he has any ability to lead and whether he even deserves to be on the Gubernatorial primary ballot against Congressman Mark Green.

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