Walker pitches 'comeback.' Actually, reprieve needed

Talk about being off-message. Or not having one.

Why would a Governor in office who's run a one-party state for almost seven years now be talking "comeback" in his third-term pitch?
“We want everyone to share in the Wisconsin comeback,” he told his supporters. “Looking ahead we want a state where we see household income going up …
Comeback from his two terms in office? Better an escape and reprieve from: 

*  The workforce pain emanating from his broken, signature pledge to create 250,000 new private-sector jobs?

*  The departure of central Wisconsin paper production, shuttered meat-packing lines in Madison, lost Harley-Davidson work in Milwaukee, heavy manufacturing shut-downs in South Milwaukee and Manitowoc, and more on his watch?

*  The loss Walker engineered from Milwaukee to Madison of family-supporting Amtrak construction work, plus his wipe out of train assembly and repair paychecks in Milwaukee's central city - - detailed post, here - -  and more job he blocked by refusing available federal funding for broadband and health care services statewide?

*The income-slashing, public-union crushing Act 10, and 'right-to-work' legislation, and additional laws reducing pay on public works projects - - so he's cut white and blue collar take-home pay across the board  - - and also has flatly refused to raise by even a penny the minimum wage in Wisconsin he's frozen at the rock-bottom, federally-mandated level of $7.25/hour?

At some level even Walker knows that because somewhere in his subconsciousness some truth is trying to break out.



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