Scott Walker knows the road to Election Day, 2018 is neither paved, repaired or orange-barrel free.
A frequent topic on this blog, for years.
For context, I commend to this excellent piece of explanatory journalism by Katelyn Ferral in the Cap Times.
In her article there us every relevant factoid and sum and truism you need to know.
Every bureaucratic, brain numbing buzzword.
Every talking point and spinning denial and evasion of responsibility from Team Walker. who, like their Republican counterparts in the Nation's Capitol who fumbled their promised repeal and replacement of Obamacare through inaction and ideological incoherence despite controlling all the levers of power, have managed to mismanage Wisconsin's road funding and construction problems into consistently worse shape.
And here's what Walker and his clownish band of infighting incompetents have completely missed, though now it should have snapped into the kind of sharp focus only an impending wave election can deliver:
* No Wisconsin driver needs to memorize the funding formulas and the budgeting lingo to understand that the roads are awful.
* Every Wisconsin driver can name his or her most familiar and thus favorite rotten, ridiculously rutted roadway. Add yours in the comments.
* And every Wisconsin driver knows who has been in charge of this steaming hit mess and also knows that elections are when the accounting is assigned.
Walker has two leading do-little legislative enabling leaders - - Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and State Senate Majority Leader Scott Walker - - who will eagerly change the subject by touting their well-timed pre-election $100-per-child checks and sales tax holidays that will cut $4 off the price of the kids' back-to-school backpacks, but any consumer knows those freebies won't cover the cost of a new set of tie-rods, shocks and tires.
And the Pothole Governor, Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dumber will throw aby Vos, Fitzgerald and Walker - - but that's like blaming your bad marriage of eight years on someone who broke up with you in senior year of high school.
So Team Walker has to own the potholes and botched priorities and orange barrel indelibility - - but only if his opponents listen to the people and the sound of hard rubber and metal rims not so much meeting the road as bouncing off it.
A frequent topic on this blog, for years.
For context, I commend to this excellent piece of explanatory journalism by Katelyn Ferral in the Cap Times.
In her article there us every relevant factoid and sum and truism you need to know.
Every bureaucratic, brain numbing buzzword.
Every talking point and spinning denial and evasion of responsibility from Team Walker. who, like their Republican counterparts in the Nation's Capitol who fumbled their promised repeal and replacement of Obamacare through inaction and ideological incoherence despite controlling all the levers of power, have managed to mismanage Wisconsin's road funding and construction problems into consistently worse shape.
And here's what Walker and his clownish band of infighting incompetents have completely missed, though now it should have snapped into the kind of sharp focus only an impending wave election can deliver:
* No Wisconsin driver needs to memorize the funding formulas and the budgeting lingo to understand that the roads are awful.
* Every Wisconsin driver can name his or her most familiar and thus favorite rotten, ridiculously rutted roadway. Add yours in the comments.
* And every Wisconsin driver knows who has been in charge of this steaming hit mess and also knows that elections are when the accounting is assigned.
Walker has two leading do-little legislative enabling leaders - - Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and State Senate Majority Leader Scott Walker - - who will eagerly change the subject by touting their well-timed pre-election $100-per-child checks and sales tax holidays that will cut $4 off the price of the kids' back-to-school backpacks, but any consumer knows those freebies won't cover the cost of a new set of tie-rods, shocks and tires.
And the Pothole Governor, Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dumber will throw aby Vos, Fitzgerald and Walker - - but that's like blaming your bad marriage of eight years on someone who broke up with you in senior year of high school.
So Team Walker has to own the potholes and botched priorities and orange barrel indelibility - - but only if his opponents listen to the people and the sound of hard rubber and metal rims not so much meeting the road as bouncing off it.