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Dem Illinois economically outpaces Walker's Wisconsin 

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Monday, April 23, 2012
Dem Illinois economically outpaces Walker's Wisconsin

As I've noted before, Republicans had a great deal of fun back in early 2011 taunting Illinois for (surprisingly) electing a Democratic governor, Pat Quinn. The theory was that Quinn's tax increases, designed to close a huge budget gap, would lead to a business exodus to Gov. Scott Walker's Wisconsin conservative utopia.

"Years ago Wisconsin had a tourism advertising campaign targeted to Illinois with the motto, `Escape to Wisconsin,'" Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said in a statement. "Today we renew that call to Illinois businesses, `Escape to Wisconsin.' You are welcome here."

In reality, turns out that Wisconsin was the only state in the entire country to lose jobs in 2011, while Illinois had better than average growth. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia also predicted strong economic growth in Illinois, while placing Wisconsin last in its forecast.

Now, an economic analysis by Bloomberg finds that Wisconsin is getting its ass kicked by Illinois.

Illinois ranked third while Wisconsin placed 42nd in the most recent Bloomberg Economic Evaluation of States index, which includes personal income, tax revenue and employment. 
Illinois gained 32,000 jobs in the 12 months ending in February, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics found. Wisconsin, where Walker promised to create 250,000 jobs with the help of business-tax breaks, lost 16,900. It's conservative mantra that tax increases kill jobs, but reality, as always, contradicts their ideology. 

http://www.drudge.com/news/156029/dem-illinois-economically-outpaces-walkers




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Re: Scott Walker Pressed For Answers On Wisconsin Equal Pay Law Repeal
By: clo in FFFT
Mon, 23 Apr 12 9:50 PM 		Msg. 41040 of 65535

"And my opinion is based on something deeper than Walker's party affiliation."

Mine is also. His policies are harming the middle class.

Though being a republican these days, for me is also a disqualifier. Since elected in 2010 the republican governors have attacked the middle class & women's issues.

Look at some of them.

John Kasich's not getting any more popular. 33% of voters approve of him to 53% who disapprove. Only a little more than half of Republicans think he's doing a good job (58/25), while Democrats (9/80) are almost universal in their disapproval. If voters could do the 2010 election over again they'd vote for Ted Strickland by a 20 point margin, 56-36, numbers that not coincidentally track closely with the Senate Bill 5 repeal result from last fall.

http://prospect.org/article/ohio-governor-john-kasichs-tightrope-walk

Rick Scott’s approval rating mired at 34% – 17 points lower than Obama’s in Florida
There is a little good news in the new poll for Scott. These new numbers are up a little bit from PPP’s last poll when he was at 26/58.
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

http://saintpetersblog.com/2012/04/rick-scotts-approval-rating-mired-at-34-17-points-lower-than-obamas-in-florida/

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