In case you haven’t heard the news, Scott Walker is now going to veto the entire County Board “budget” later today. While he did find a way to bring the levy back to a zero increase through line-item vetoes, he couldn’t solve the pair of time bombs Lee Holloway and company threw in through the line-item veto pen – the re-adding and partial funding of the jobs Walker wanted to outsource like janitors for a few million (if memory serves, and it’s a bit hazy, somewhere around $6 million), and a shortfall in the pension funding caused by the board’s rejection of bonding the obligation and still taking the savings (again, if the hazy memory serves, right around $13 million).
For those of you with a sense of Bruce Lee films, this quote from Enter the Dragon is definitely appropriate – “What was that? An exhibition? We need emotional content. Try again, this time with feeling.” I can easily see Walker saying that.
Nice to see you at the veto announcement Steve, I have that video posted here.