Posted on 07/25/2015 1:54:47 PM PDT by VinL
Donald Trump on Saturday took shots at Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin, the only Republican in a field of 16 who is leading the business mogul in Iowa polls.
Trump has surged in such polls nationwide, during a campaign in which he has caused controversy over immigration and with a widely condemned attack on the Vietnam war record of Senator John McCain.
On Saturday, Trump addressed a rally in Oskaloosa, Iowa from which his campaign had barred the Des Moines Register newspaper, which published a critical editorial about him. At the rally, he repeated several traditionally Democratic talking points in his argument against Walker, citing the governor’s record on infrastructure, education and healthcare among the reasons that he was unfit to be president.
Referring to a Walker supporter’s comment that Trump was a “dumb-dumb”, Trump said: “Today I read this horrible statement from a fundraiser about Trump, and I said, ‘Oh finally, I can attack, finally.”
“Wisconsin’s doing terribly,” Trump said. “First of all, it’s in turmoil, the roads are a disaster.”
He continued: “They projected a $1bn surplus, and it turns out to be a deficit of $2.2bn, and money all over the place, the schools are a disaster, and they’re fighting like crazy because there’s no money for the schools, the hospitals and education is a disaster, and he was totally in support of [controversial education policy] Common Core.”
The $2.2bn deficit cited by Trump actually refers to a “pre-budget estimate” of tax revenue compared with budget requests from Wisconsin state agencies, PolitiFact Wisconsin reported. Walker calculated a $3.6bn deficit when he took office, in order to justify cuts to public education and to limit unions’ bargaining power.
The state agency that calculates the pre-budget estimate found a $2.2bn shortfall in Wisconsin’s most recent budget cycle, (snip)
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
I am very old and have 3 sons who are highly educated..1 with an MBA 2 with masters....As far as I’m concerned, a general college education, unless it relates to a profession, Law, Medicine, Engineering, etc....is a gigantic waste of time and money. A four year degree in going to class and football games is totally useless.....what did you learn that is going to benefit you in any way??????
Trump touched on some of it in his speech. I have been reading about the problems in Wisconsin for months.
Wisconsin is losing its middle class at a faster rate than any other state. The economic growth in Wisconsin has been at about half the growth nationally. They have been 50yh in ne business startups, 44th in private sector job growth, 40th in salaries.
Walker”s WEDC lost 2 jobs for every one job created and wasted hundreds of millions of dollars.
Yes, the unemployment rate is now low, but other states around Wisconsin have even lower unemployment rates and are still growing their economy and creating jobs.
“You talking about the guy who repaid donors out of some sort of economic development commission???”
Thank goodness! Someone who has bothered to do some research!
To be fair, Walker did promise to get rid of Common Core, a promise he has not kept.
Trump attacks Walker for Wisconsin record.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
No, I’m talking about the guy who has no compunction at all of pushing a widow out of her family’s boarding house in Atlantic City because he wants added parking space for his limousines.
I’m also talking about the who has repeatedly waffled over the years as to whether he’s a democrat or republican.... y’know.. the same friend of Bill and Hillary who supports “universal” (read: single-payer) health care.
Why don't you explain to us how he should do this.
The Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction is a powerful elected office.
But thanks to Scott Walker, Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers can no longer require school districts to use Common Core.
Common Core is not federally mandated.
If you don't know anything other than what the msm is feeding you, here is some places for you to find information.
"The superintendent's responsibilities include providing leadership for Wisconsin's public school districts; provide the public with information about school management, attendance, and performance; licensing the state's teachers; and receive and disburse federal aid for schools..." Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin
Wisconsin school districts can opt out. Let's see if Tony Evers, a liberal activist, will sue Wisconsin school districts...
WI Schools Chief Threatens Lawsuit if Common Core Is Rejected
"The state of Wisconsin has held three out of four public hearings on Common Core Standards. State Superintendent Tony Evers must be feeling the heat because he offered legislators a veiled threat that any rejection of Common Core Standards may be taken to the Supreme Court. This threat outrages citizens across the state who are trying to protect their right to exercise local control of schools.
Kim Simac, Wisconsin State Director for Concerned Women for America, Chairperson for Northwoods Patriots, and one of the major community organizers in northern Wisconsin, stated, “Superintendent Evers’ threat to jump directly to the Wisconsin Supreme Court should any legislation or decision be made to opt out of CCSS exposes his lack of confidence in the standards themselves. Those supporters of CCSS should have an arsenal of evidence that proves excellence and superiority in the product. Obviously they do not.”................
And SAVING THE BEST FOR LAST:
July 20, 2015: Scott Walker’s Veto on State Assessment Budget Language
".........I am partially vetoing section 3248b as it relates to renumbering s. 118.30 (1) (a) and vetoing section 3248c in its entirety. This provision is unnecessary and would have codified assessment criteria in state law that are closely aligned with national standards I oppose and which local school districts should not be mandated to adopt. Ultimately, local school boards across Wisconsin should be able to determine what test they administer and what standards they adopt.
The emphasis is mine. It is important to hold elected officials accountable, but it is also important to point out when they have done the right thing. He defunded Smarter Balanced, and now he is trying to make sure, within his power, that schools will be able to select the assessment they use.
I have to give him kudos for that.
This precedes a trip he made to Iowa last week where he railed against a “nationwide school board.”
During a speech at the grand opening of his Iowa campaign headquarters last Thursday, Walker appealed to local control.
“Going forward I believe in high standards, but I think those standards should be set at the local level – no Common Core, no nationwide school board. We need to take money and power out of Washington and send it back to our states and back to our schools where it is more effective, more efficient, and more accountable to the American taxpayers out there,” Walker said....."
Interesting you mention that Walker has “flip-flopped” on amnesty, yet Trump on 27 June stated illegals can stay “if they work hard.” Also, after blathering about how “he’d build a border wall and make Mexico pay for it,” he came away from his Laredo visit stating “there are sections of the border that need a fence.”
And.. after registering in the 1990s as a Republican, Trump has done quite the political Bruce Jenner act.. re-identifying as a democrat, an independent, then again as a Republican.
Who again is the flip-flopper?
“No surprise that Trump is using Lefty talking points, that is what Liberals do.”
Exactly.. where was Trump when Mary Burke needed him last year?
I live in Wisconsin and was dissapointed to see Trump use the flawed lefty talking points.
Our schools save for the mess in Milwaukee are in pretty good shape. And then Trump slams the roads as a mess, but our problem with the roads is that they are too good. The special interest road builders have been sucking at the State teet for decades building high end super highways to all places rural.
And for those of you concerned about “common core” let me remind you Walker went hard at dumping college professor tenure at our State University, while exposing the higher ed scam by cutting funding for our bloated liberal aircraft carrier known as the University of Wisconsin. Yet Donald decides yesterday to retweet some lefty’s tweet about how Walker is destroying the “great UW system”.
This lays to rest the Common Core slam against Walker.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3316741/posts
It probably isn’t clear - I want Trump - he is the only one that can win. I just wish he was more free enterprise than I see. (Could be he is and isn’t telling).
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