After taking months of shots from the Mark Neumann campaign, the Scott Walker campaign hit back with the final House vote on the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century Neumann made back in 1998, which came complete with $9 billion in pork roundly slammed by entities ranging from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to The Heritage Foundation.
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Instead of tying Neumann to Nancy Pelosi, they should have contrasted Neumann’s support of that pork with Tom Barrett’s opposition to it. That’s right; Barrett voted against the final version of the bill.
For his part, Neumann flubbed his response by simply saying many other Republicans voted for it too.
All Republicans have to do is put up the amount of deficits they voted for versus what the Democrats have passed. Then pledge to repeal it all, whether they voted for it or not. No Democrat can do that.