To the editor:
If Scott Walker were a Democrat, Republicans would be screaming for his head. He’s a lifelong politician with a record of cronyism and corruption, a slippery but smooth operator always running for a higher office while failing in his current one.
Scott Walker took millions in campaign contributions from corporate donors, including a shocking $700,000 from G-Tac that allowed the mining company to rewrite laws in its favor. Walker has the worst jobs record in the Midwest. He didn’t create the promised 250,000 jobs, but he did create the scandalously inept WDEC.
He’s polarized the state, using “divide and conquer” (his words) so successfully that public employees are now “parasites” and “bottom feeders” to half the state’s population. And after all the sacrifices made by public workers, we still face a $1.8 billion deficit.
Walker’s policies have had especially stark results here in the northwoods. Our public schools are on life support, slowly starving while Walker supports voucher expansion. Our businesses are endangered as a persistently stagnant economy sucks out their lifeblood. Our woodlands and waterways are threatened as Walker favors weakening a long-held Republican ideal, local government control.
Despite his smooth ads, Walker is indeed anti-women. He repealed Equal Pay for Women; supports personhood legislation that will deny women a choice, including safe, effective birth control methods; refuses to follow state law guaranteeing workers (mostly women) a living wage; rejects hundreds of millions of federal dollars to give health care to low-wage earners (again, mostly women).
Were Mary Burke a Republican, she’d be their dream candidate: successful business background, Ivy League graduate, humble philanthropist, hard worker oozing with integrity, devoted to rebuilding Wisconsin’s economy and image.
Why people still support Scott Walker is puzzling. Are his policies helping you?
Isn’t it time to vote for your own interests? Choose Mary Burke on Nov. 4.
Kathleen Marsh,
Townsend
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