The NY Times Scathing Editorial exposes Gov. Walker’s so called ‘Drafting Error’
We can only hope that the National media will vet Walker!
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Andy Jorgensen ?@RepJorgensen 6h6 hours ago
NY Times scathing Editorial exposes @GovWalker’s so called ‘Drafting Error’ #wibudget #wipolitics http://nyti.ms/1EMHVvd
The Opinion Pages | Editorial
Gov. Walker’s ‘Drafting Error’
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/opinion/gov-scott-walkers-drafting-error.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD FEB. 6, 2015
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It was not enough for Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin suddenly to propose a destructive 13 percent cut in state support for the University of Wisconsin’s widely respected system. His biennial budget plan, released Tuesday, reached gratuitously into the university’s hallowed 111-year-old mission statement to delete a bedrock principle: “Basic to every purpose of the system is the search for truth.”
The budget — patently tailored for the governor’s conservative campaign for the Republican presidential nomination — inserted language that the university should be more narrowly concerned with meeting “the state’s work force needs.”
Brazenly deleted as well from the mission statement, which is nationally appreciated in education circles as the Wisconsin Idea, were the far from controversial goals “to educate people and improve the human condition” and “serve and stimulate society.” It was as if a trade school agenda were substituted for the idea of a university.
But Mr. Walker badly miscalculated — in the state at least, and perhaps even with the national constituency he is furiously courting in campaign trips and in his fund-raising. The citizens of Wisconsin, clearly more appreciative of the state university than is their governor, erupted through social media and news outlets, sending Mr. Walker into retreat a day later. His office attempted the ridiculous excuse that the pernicious editing of the university’s mission was simply “a drafting error” in the budget text and that the Wisconsin Idea would be left intact after all. But a December email showed clear instructions from the administration to make the deletions..............
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I posted the scathing NYTimes Editorial---but the national media has yet to really start vetting this weasel! 
http://www.jsonline.com/news/for-walker-success-on-the-national-front-a-stumble-at-home-for-walker-success-on-the-national-fro-b9-291117481.html
Daniel Bice | No Quarter
For Walker, success on the national front, a stumble at home
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker emerged as a media darling on the national front even as he took a beating politically at home.
Feb. 6, 2015
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It's been this kind of week for Gov. Scott Walker: He has emerged as a media darling on the national front even as he took a beating politically at home.
"He is clearly distracted by his presidential ambitions," said Senate Minority Leader Jennifer Shilling, a La Crosse Democrat.
Walker could not have done any better with his national press.
He's leading in polls in Iowa and New Hampshire, and the Washington Post labeled the Wisconsin Republican the first "it" candidate of the 2016 presidential horse race.
The number-crunchers at Nate Silver'sFiveThirtyEight are giving Walker better odds than anyone but former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush of winning the GOP nomination.
"No 2016 presidential hopeful has had a better two-week run than Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker," declared U.S. News & World Report.
But you wouldn't know it in Wisconsin......................
that "drafting error" will be conveniently forgotten to be changed. imo
Gracias riversedge. 
