State Lost 10,189 businesses in Walkers first Year.

While everyone focuses on the job losses during the Walker administration, Politifact took a look at Scott Walker's other promise, more businesses. Amazing:

jsonline: When Scott Walker campaigned for governor in 2010, his top promise was to add … 10,000 businesses in our state by 2015.

We checked in with the state De­partment of Financial Institutions, which Walker and business-forma­tion experts say is the best tracker of this data. The score card: After one year of the Walker era, there were 9,485 few­er businesses than at the end of 2010, Gov. Jim Doyle's final year in office. It's improved somewhat in recent months, but the total of existing enti­ties was still down 4,338 as of April 30, compared with December 2010.

The picture is worse if you look on­ly at Wisconsin business entities do­ing business here, and exclude out­of-state businesses that must register here to transact business. Those 'domestic' business enti­ties were down 10,189 after Walker's first year, and down a total of 5,741 af­ter 16 months. So the numbers have gone back­ward.