Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Extreme Conservative Governors in Wisconsin and Florida not afraid to do Whatever they want, winner take all.


While Wisconsin's new Gov. Scott Walker is going the way of fraud, waste and influence with a private/public commerce department, ignoring all the other state warnings, corporate ideologue and Medicare fraudster Gov. Rick Scott is going in the opposite direction because of those past problems. That's just crazy.  MSNBC:


WSJ: Gov. Scott Walker and Florida Gov. Rick Scott are both pro-business Republicans who have made job creation their top priority. But the two leaders are taking divergent paths ... Walker is ... abolishing the state's Commerce Department and replacing it with the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, a public-private agency that will market the state to outside companies. 
Last week, Scott unveiled plans to do just the opposite: Restore his state's Department of Commerce, 15 years after it was axed to make way for a public-private hybrid criticized for failing to bring enough business to the state. Scott has said returning the economic development job to the Commerce Department will allow him to better respond to the state's business needs. 
You've got to wonder what Walker is thinking...or isn't thinking...
Walker has used the same basic argument to push for the WEDC. Such agencies have become a popular tactic with Republican governors ... But for every Wisconsin and Ohio, there is an Indiana or a Michigan, where officials are dealing with problems stemming from poor oversight, conflicts of interest and inflated job creation numbers. The spotty record of the hybrids was a popular topic ... Democrats attempted to attach amendments they said would provide needed oversight ... Most were brushed away by the chambers' majority Republicans with the promise that details would be worked out in Walker's budget.   
Sen. Robert Jauch, D-Poplar, called the new agency "an illusory body, with no real definition, just a promise that it will do better than what we have now."

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