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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-11-09 07:36 PM
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Wow, WI is on the top 10 endangered states list for looming fiscal disaster.
No wonder Doyle is bailing. Seems to me that running for Goobernator is a little like trying to swim out to the Titanic.
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-11-09 07:47 PM
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1. Like Thompson, Doyle knows when to get out of Dodge.
Good riddance.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-11-09 07:54 PM
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2. Amen to that.
I'll kinda miss him.

Like I'd miss woodticks if they went extinct.
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Sabien Donating Member (430 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-11-09 09:09 PM
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3. yep
This, combined with the prospect of a tool like Scott Walker or Mark Neumann becoming governor makes me a wee bit skittish about the next 10 years or so.
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glinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-13-09 12:46 AM
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4. Pawlenty did that. Plus he knew he would not get re-elected. They know....
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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-13-09 02:51 PM
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5. Jackpine it seems to me that Gov. Doyle took over a state that was bankrupted or near bankrupt
by the Thompson administration. Thompson emptied the coffers to get re-elected the last time around. Then the Thompson appointed state workers were left behind that hindered the work of the Doyle administration well into the new gov. first administration. What do you think of those two issues?
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-13-09 06:43 PM
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6. You're absolutely right. Tommy, & then Gollum…
excuse me, McCallum…had driven the state into the hole, among their many other sins while in power. The Republicans even blew the tobacco $$ in a one-time budget balancing deal. As I said at the time, it will take us generations to undo the harm Tommy did to this state.

I'm not really blaming Doyle for our current situation. I would even give him major credit for restoring some fiscal balance to the budget, even though I disagreed with exactly how he went about doing it. I admit to being unenthusiastic about him in general, and I think we're handling things poorly in many ways (i.e. not progressively enough). This is the state that gave the nation a whole lot of progressive innovations in the 20's and 30's. Now all we can come up with is unpaid holidays for state workers and cuts to local government that will intensify the hardship of the poor, including the newly poor.
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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-21-09 09:45 PM
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7. Well I must agree with not enough progressive moves, and unpaid holiday should
continue to be pumped into this very sluggish economy. But I'm glad that health care for poor children has been protected by this Gov. It show where his heart is.
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