[Norseman]

The budget is the key to all. Here’s a true story:

Under Governor Tommy Thompson (GOP) the DPI (Department of Public Instruction) was still run by an elected Democrat. Thompson kept cutting the DPI budget until they only had enough money to perform statutory functions, i.e., things they were required to do by law, like keep track of student counts, figure out what each school was entitled to in state aid, handle disputes, etc.

It got to the point where they told local schools to file a required report on site rather than send it in. One administrator said that it had gotten so bad that not only didn’t the DPI have enough staff to read the report; they didn’t even have the staff to FILE it.

The key to destroying the Left is defunding their tax dollar bonanzas. (essentially my tagline)

[Carry_Okie]

Thompson was followed by Doyle, possibly having made the classical technocrat mistake of thinking that 'cutting off the head' is sufficient. I think Walker did the right thing in going after the union perks and ROW. That cuts off the money from the bottom up but I doubt that was within Thompson's reach at the time. Walker could do it now without consequence. So it looks like the TEA Party really did have long term benefits for Wisconsin.

I take it Wisconsin has term limits for the governor?