Saturday, April 7, 2012

Walker worked 44 hours between August 2011 to January 2012.

I’ve always been curious about how much time Scott Walker has spent out of state versus his time at home doing his job. In what could be the closest I’m going to get to satisfying my curiosity, I give you this analysis by One Wisconsin Now. If the Democratic candidates for governor don’t take my hint to compile and use the amount of time he's been away, than they can at least take advantage of the following data:
A One Wisconsin Now analysis of Gov. Walker's schedules from August 2011 through January 2012:
  • Walker was scheduled to spend a grand total of just over 44 hours meeting with legislators or his policy staff or working on an a specific policy issue.
  • Over the same time period, a whopping 614-plus hours were blocked off as "personal" time.
  • In August, just under 64 hours were classified as personal time, but that climbed to over 120 hours in November when the opportunity to raise unlimited campaign cash began and topped out at nearly 153 hours in January.
  • A significant uptick (in) his personal time occurred when he was allowed to start raising unlimited amounts in campaign contributions because of the recall effort against him (and) the criminal investigation of close Walker aides and associates began to come to light.
One Wisconsin Now Spokesperson Mike Browne commented, "The taxpayers of Wisconsin pay Gov. Walker over $144,000 dollars a years, provide him with a mansion to live in, a security detail to drive him about and a staff to cook and clean for him. The Governor claims he's working to create jobs, but his actions, or lack thereof, tell a much different story."

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