Walker proposes ending County government in Milwaukee

[Scuba]

Watch the YouTube video. Walker plans to get rid of County government. He wants to start with Milwaukee.

WALKER: "For us, we’ve been looking for almost two years at an alternative for county government. Here’s the tease. We’ve looked extensively. I know many others have looked at this. We believe if they don’t — they being the county board, the state legislature, the governor — give us the tools to act on those major reforms, it’s probably time for us to seriously consider looking at the possibility of eliminating county government, and replacing it with something better. "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0hpjHw0xdA


my thanks to jsonline.com blogger normagene

[buddysmellgood]

1. What could be better than democracy?

[ejpoeta]

2. didn't walker run the county government at one time? he was the mayor or something?

what an assbag.

[HereSince1628]

4. He was a county exec, frustrated however in his privatization scheme

He wanted to sell the airport...that was denied. He also proposed selling parkland (the "County Grounds") which he did manage to transfer for a token amount to the Univ. of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, and he looked at selling or leasing county owned public golf courses and county owned public swimming pools.

He was stymied on much of these projects by the county board of supervisors. Giving Walker power to sell things without referendums would result in wholesale losses of what once was one of America's best park systems.

[KansDem]

3. You know, this only displays the irony & hypocrisy of the GOP and it's anti-big government hysteria

If smaller governmental bodies are dissolved, the ones who work more closely with and more responsive to members of the local communities, then what's left?

BIG government...

[CTyankee]

5. Here in CT we don't have county government, altho we do have counties.

We end up with a much larger state government, for obvious reasons.

I personally think that county government is a good thing. We have all these little towns in CT and sacrifice a certain amount of efficiency that you get with a more regional approach.

[walldude]

6. I thought America was the greatest country on the planet?

I thought our Democracy was the best government in existence. I thought America was exceptional and everyone was supposed to do things the way we do them.

I guess America is not good enough for Walker.

This guy needs a perp walk. He's not a governor he's a Don.