For years, Republicans have asked why government doesn’t run like a business. I’ve always wondered why they always focus on costs rather than customer service. Why, you have to wonder, doesn’t Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker, a Republican, run Milwaukee like a business? Think about it. Customers are already paying for the services in the [...]

The far-right side of the blogosphere is up in arms over my assertion that the ailing O’Donnell Park parking garage which has been having problems since the get-go has finally led to a fatality due to negligence by County Executive Scott Walker. Disgusting, politicizing, all words to describe my guilt for connecting the obvious dots. [...]

Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker has built his entire career on the simple slogan “cut taxes”. Part of the way he has achieved this reputation is by allowing Milwaukee County’s infrastructure to erode to the point where yesterday, a 15 year old boy lost his life. Yesterday a 30 foot wide concrete wall fell from [...]

By Robert Vosters With the economy sinking further on the news of drastically increasing unemployment, Scott Walker chose a particularly bad time to preach from the book of fiscal conservatism.  After initially indicating he wouldn’t accept any of the potential $800 billion in Federal stimulus funds because of his belief that only tax cuts are [...]

Local Republicans screamed “FOUL” and “UNFAIR” last year when Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker failed to win support in a borrow and reinvest scheme that he was confident would save taxpayer dollars. Walker wanted to borrow pension obligation bonds to invest in the stock market. He claimed that it the difference between the amount that [...]

Wow. Listening to Channel 12 reporter Nick Bohr “report” on Scott Walker you would think it was a paid television ad. Bohr not only let Walker get away with deceiving news watchers about the fiscal health of Milwaukee County, but he failed to call Walker to the carpet for the destruction of the infrastructure and [...]