In Wisconsin, "Job-Creation" Means Rewards To Republican Special Interests

More bills are tossed by the Governor and legislature into the special session on job-creating that have nothing to do with creating jobs except in corporate donors' front-offices, lobbying, law and accounting firms.

Cue the campaign fund-raising letters - - so there may be a job or two added in the direct mail houses come election time.

The Journal Sentinel headline and deck describing this are direct and jaw-dropping:

Bills limiting lawsuits added to Legislature's jobs session

Measures would cut interest rate, curb medical cases

 The Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters last week got it right:

Buried within the package of small bills to be considered in the Special Session... are two proposals initiating major rollbacks to Wisconsin’s natural resource protections. These are not jobs proposals. Governor Scott Walker is clearly using several low-impact bills to provide cover for the two proposals that will decimate natural resources, reward campaign donors, and be wildly unpopular with Wisconsin voters.

Wisconsin voters will not be fooled by the clever packaging. If Governor Scott Walker were truly interested in creating jobs, he would not have driven 1,100 wind jobs out of Wisconsin or sent the Talgo high speed rail jobs to Illinois as a first order of business.

In addition, because similar ideas were floated on mining legislation in May, it appears this may be a back door attempt to allow mining companies to fill wetlands with toxic mining waste, contaminating drinking water and lakes and rivers....an assault on the very things that make Wisconsin a great place to live and work.

I am waiting for the newspapers that endorsed Walker to slap him down for this completely dishonest offensive.