Comments on: Doyle TV ad’s Strategic Blunder, and Green’s Shot

By: Lou Kaye

Lou Kaye — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:46:41 +0000

If you carry over the deficits as you imply, a $700 million deficit is still a hell of a lot better than the supposed $3.2 billion deficit he inherited, whether they are stuctural or not. Green has rubberstamped the worst Federal deficit on record in Congress, his record is far worse than Doyle’s on fiscal responsibility. God help us if Green becomes governor, it would be like having Bush.

By: Gop3.com: The Triumvirate » Blog Archive » DOYLE ADOPTS A VERSION OF REAGANOMICS?

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:15:26 +0000

[...] As you may recall, the Governorâ€™s reelection campaign released a TV ad on Tuesday saying that Doyle had fixed the $3.2 billion deficit and balanced the budget. Myself and others cried foul, saying that Doyle had his own deficit, which was estimated at anywhere from $700 million to $2.6 billion. [...]

By: Nate Nelson

Nate Nelson — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:07:13 +0000

In case anyone was wondering I have patented the phrase “Double-Down Doyle”. You have to ask my permission to use it.

By: dad29

dad29 — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:12:33 +0000

If I were Green’s Boyzzz, I’d be creating an ad using a 3-card Monte scam to describe the activity of our Governor.

And I’d put the action inside a Shiny New Casino.

By: SPET3R

SPET3R — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 03:56:26 +0000

I like the ad from Green… its kinda corny tho.

He needs to explain some of those issues, especially counter that stupid stem cell ad.

By: wally

wally — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:05:06 +0000

No one knew the deficit at the start of Doyle’s term was as large as it was. That was the surprise — it was at least a billion dollars bigger than anyone knew.

Why don’t you talk about the Budget which the Republican legislature threw at Doyle? Tell us what he should have done about this specific problem:

Governor Thompson created cost controls for school districts, and they have been in effect for more than a decade. Under the Thompson cost controls, school districts could increase per pupil spending by roughly $240 per student in 2005-2006 over the 2004-2005 school year. But in the 2005 Budget, Republican legislators slashed the permitted per pupil increase to about $110 per student. That’s in the Budget that passed in June, 2005

State law and contracts with represented employees compel school districts to give layoff notices in the early spring each year, long before the Budget is passed much less signed into law. Since payroll costs equal more than 80% of each school district’s Budget, the only way to slash costs is to slash payroll, but by the time the Republican cut was even to the Governor, the deadline for making payroll reductions was long gone.

That’s the box the Republican legislator put the Governor in. It was done intentionally — they all knew what they were doing.

What choice did the Governor have? You tell me — you’re the brain!

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:49:28 +0000

Very good first ad from the Green campaign, can’t wait to see more!