Grin and Barrett!

Listened to Thursday's debate, folks? The previous debate? One thing is for sure - the admittedly imperfect Tom Barrett won both contests. In a civil and extremely educated tone, he simply demolished the state's most prominent underachiever, Scott Walker. I can't honestly say Walker was completely slow on the uptake, as far as his abilities would permit him. But his most prominent tactic was to employ redundancy, duplicity, and mendacity in typical GOP fashion. Example: By cutting Wisconsin's K-12 budget by $800,000,000, Walker gave schools and educators the "Tools" they need to succeed. After all, he savaged collective bargaining, a constitutionally-protected right public employees had for over 50 years. Yes, Walker did make public school teachers pay more for their retirement and health care, to the point where some are now in considerable financial distress. By contrast, the Badger Billionaire crowd received hundreds of millions in tax breaks, and our budget deficit is still just that, a budget deficit. Recall this monster! Scotty has attacked and demonized teachers, unions and the poor. I voted early - it's not likely, but just possible, there will be some Waukesha County-style Republican electoral fraud, right here in Dane County.