High Speed Rail Anniversary Protest outside Talgo.

One of the most irresponsible acts by the incoming Walker administration was to kill the high speed rail project. The low rung of the Republican Party loved it. Walker would later spend state taxpayers money, instead of federal money, on track maintenance and upgrading. What a waste, and what a deal. The public is not about to let Walker forget about the loss of jobs, and the higher jobless numbers:   

WISN: A new report due out next week may put Milwaukee's African-American unemployment rate at 55 percent. Area leaders and residents are urging Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker to help create jobs in the city. And they're using the site of his first high-profile political showdown as the backdrop: Talgo America.

The controversial project of bringing light rail -- and the company to manufacture the trains -- to Wisconsin had barely begun when then governor-elect Walker vowed to shut the project down. On the one-year anniversary of that announcement, protesters gathered outside Talgo America to urge the governor to do more. "We're here today on the one year anniversary of the killing of a dream for thousands of residents in this community," Jennifer Epps-Addison said to a group in front of the company.

The story here makes it seem like Walker actually did something to create jobs, or that the special sessions had anything to do with job creation. Wrong!! But it's this uncritical news coverage that seems to be propping up this failed governor.