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State & Local
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Written by GBpro Staff
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Thursday, 01 December 2011 12:04 |
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MILWAUKEE – The Truth-O-Meter series that appears in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel keeps track of what our politicians say and evaluates it against the truth, as best it can be determined. They have been trying to keep up with our current Governor, Scott Walker.
As it turns out, Walker has been having a bad year, as far as the truth is concerned.
Here is a summary of nine statements by Walker and how the Truth-O-Meter rates them. And there are plenty more where these came from.
Nine statements involving Scott Walker:
Walker's Statement
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Truth-O-Meter
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1. "The overwhelming number" of school districts reported their staff stayed the same or grew after the 2011-’13 state budget
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2. "The largest category of people coming into the technical schools in Wisconsin are people with four-year degrees."
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3. "Under our (2011-’13) budget, the average (Wisconsin) property taxpayer will save $700."
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4. Says many public-employee unions falsely told their Wisconsin members his budget-repair bill sought 12 percent to 13 percent of their incomes for health insurance premiums.
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5. Two years ago we had "the largest structural deficit ever in Wisconsin."
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6. "We’re broke. We don’t have any more money."
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7. "The things I said (during the prank call by a blogger posing as GOP contributor David Koch) are the things I’ve said publicly all along" about the Wisconsin budget debate.
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8. When it comes to protesters in Madison, "almost all" are now from outside of Wisconsin.
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9. "I campaigned on (the proposals in the budget repair bill for Wisconsin) all throughout the election. Anybody who says they are shocked on this has been asleep for the past two years."
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