Square These Walker Boasts With Open Pit Mining, Womens Clinics' Shutdowns

Walker supports wetlands' filling, massive open-pit mining in the Bad River watershed and closing Planned Parenthood health-care clinics serving rural women through funding cuts and restrictive legislation, but left the Lakeland Times and local residents with this double-talk:

Monday, the governor made four stops across the state — including Ministry Saint Mary’s Hospital in Rhinelander — to focus on the health care aspects of his plan. Addressing a small gathering of Ministry Medical Group employees Monday, Walker said his budget plan will help with an ongoing issue rural medical facilities like Saint Mary’s Hospital are facing — attracting and retaining quality health professionals..... 

“It takes a little nudge, but when they get here they love it,” Walker said in talking about the Northwoods and other areas of Wisconsin’s less densely populated north. He referred to the focus his office has put into spurring tourism in those areas in the past two years.