Saturday, December 8, 2018

Wisconsin lame duck news: How low can you go, GOP?


It's a journey to the center of the earth by a party that will do anything to preserve Scott Walker's inept Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.


WEDC would use audit spot checks, business owners' word to verify job creation under lame-duck bill.  (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12/7/2018)

WEDC was created in 2011.  Six years later, the board of director and staff still hadn't implemented a method to track job creation for businesses receiving loans and grants.

Related lame-duck, extraordinary session posts:
Scott Walker appoints GOP contributor to UW Board of Regents. (12/4/2018)
Scott Walker gives campaign contributor her old job back at the PSC.  (12/4/2018)
All of a sudden, Scott Walker is in a big hurry to fill nontraditional student regent position that was vacant for nearly a year.  (12/5/2018)
UPDATE: Robin Vos continues to show signs of severe delirium.  (12/5/2018)
From library champion to "hot mess" chump.  (12/6/2018)
Rick Gundrum between a rock and a hard place. (12/6/2018)
The Dave Murphy, "Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away" edition.  (12/6/2018)
Rep. John Macco begs  to differ with the dictionary.  (12/6/2018)
Howard Marklein's Freudian slip.  (12/7/2018)
The 'divided government', unrepentant Robin Vos, GOP meme edition.  (12/7/2018)
The final blow-off (The Scott Walker edition).  (12/7/2018)
Two -- count 'em, 2 -- Scott Walker allies urge him to veto extraordinary session bills.  (12/8/2018)

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