A few years ago when voters passed an advisory referrendum rejecting continued borrowing to fund operations and increase the county debt, Milwaukee County Executive Walker said voters didn’t understand what they were voting on.

He preceded to get the state to allow him to do the very borrow and spend mechanism that voters said no to in that referendum.

Now Walker is saying that voters were confused when they said yes to increasing the sales tax by 1% to pay for quality of life services such as buses and parks. Again, this referendum is advisory but with Walker in charge of the Department of Intergovernmental Relations, you can bet that the County won’t be spending any time pushing legislators to do the will of the people.

This unprecedented level of arrogance is pedaled by Walker alone. He believes that as the Republican golden boy from Milwaukee County, he can do anything. Apparently Walker must believe he is the second coming of Christ — bestowing his wisdom upon the masses and well paying jobs to his closest apostles.

Fortunately for Walker, he runs for election in the spring, where voter turnout is lower and a larger percentage of the electorate are suburbanites, many who believe they have little use for mass transit. As for parks, well in the suburbs there are city and village run green spaces and they’re maintained just fine without the need for funds from the county.

As long Walker can maintain his politics of division, and as long as the urban electorate continues to have a lower voter turnout than suburban areas, Walker may just have this thing in the bag.