As we said. Evers win was due to Dane County and the City of Milwaukee. https://t.co/luTpJBvtpH
— Robin Vos (@repvos) December 11, 2018
It is also noteworthy that all JFC Democrats represent Milwaukee or Madison, no outstate voices. They have become the party of Milwaukee and Madison. https://t.co/kKGKTA12b3
— John Nygren (@rep89) December 14, 2018
One, that's not really true. As I noted in this post, Milwaukee County's suburbs and the WOW Counties also shifted away from Walker, and many other counties statewide also voted for Evers, including almost all of the southwest 1/4 Wisconsin.
And by the way, Robbin' and Johnny shouldn't be trying to "otherize" the blue-voting parts of the state. Because if it wasn't for many of those blue-voting areas, Wisconsin wouldn't be doing nearly as well as you claim it is, when you try to claim your GOP policies are "working."
If you focus in on the recently-released "gold standard" Quarterly Census on Employment and Wages for June 2018, and focus in on the county-wide stats, it makes the contrast in job growth for the state clear.
In June 2011, 11 counties accounted for barely more than 2/5 of the state’s private sector jobs. But in the 7 years measured since that time by the “gold standard”, those counties have been responsible for nearly 3/5 of the jobs, with us goofy hippies in Dane County leading the way.
When taken as a rate of job growth, these 11 counties stand out from the state even more, with only Milwaukee County being slower than the rest of the state (which indicates a separate failure of the “divide and conquer” Walker years).
Now overlay that reality with the places that shifted toward Dems in 2018, and you’ll see that with the exception of maybe the Wausau areas, Scott Walker and the GOP lost support in these areas. Let me rehash this tweet again.
For #WIGov, Scott Walker (R) went from a 6% win in 2014 to a 1% loss this year. He improved up north but the southern metros moved away from him. For example, in both Dane (Madison) & Waukesha (Milwaukee suburbs) counties, he did 10-12% worse this time. These were crucial losses. pic.twitter.com/n5kAtotBq9
— J. Miles Coleman (@JMilesColeman) December 4, 2018
So why would we believe that the GOP’s way of doing things is what Wisconsinites want (especially since the talent in those redder, low-job areas often left for the bluer better-job areas)? And even more obviously, why would we listen to people who denigrate Dane County as “lesser Wisconsinites” when it’s the county that seems to have done best in the Age of Fitzwalkerstan DESPITE the limitations the ALEC Crew has tried to put on it?
Maybe people in the majority of Wisconsin that was left behind over the last 7 years should demand more policies that reflect the way things are done in Dane County instead of the garbage that they got from the WisGOPs that allegedly “represented” many of them. Crazy thought, eh?
The WISGOP are never going to admit that their policies have failed Wisconsin. They will never be willing to give up power and they will fight and lie and obstruct in every way they can to keep their backwards policies in place.
ReplyDeleteAs long as statistics show any growth they will claim it as a great success, even if the truth in those numbers show that Wisconsin is way behind in our region.
They will claim any growth as their great achievement and continue to work to enrich the 1% at the demise of the rest of Wisconsin.
Until the republicans can be removed from power in Wisconsin we are doomed to failure.
They don't have a single policy that helps their poor rural voters. People living in those areas have bad roads, bad water, limited internet, limited healthcare facilities, closing schools, closing stores and closing farms. There is absolutely no investment in rural areas other than the Manufacturing and Agricultural tax breaks which only help the rich.
ReplyDeleteBoth of you are on the money. You can draw a line directly from Act 10 and Walker/WisGOP "open for business" deregulation/austerity and the declining economy in rural Wisconsin.
ReplyDeleteWhich explains why Vos and Nygren and other GOPs do this cultural, "divide and conquer" BS rhetoric. They can't get rurals to vote for them on their pro-corporate economic policies, because that stuff has failed rural Wisconsin badly.