It is unwise to put someone paid by road builders and local governments to lobby for their agenda at the head of the agency that manages the contracts, regulations and guidelines impacting road builders and local governments.
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Road builders and those seeking to profit at taxpayer expense may argue for gas tax hikes while screaming that the sky is falling, but they do so only while ignoring reality.
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Critics of Gov. Walker and the DOT, however, have claimed that the state is bonding too much for transportation and spending too little compared to Gov. Jim Doyle’s final budgets. Neither claim is honest.
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It seems like Smith may be bored with true outdoor writing. If so, he should quit and find a job writing about politics.
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Former journalist George Mitchell has taken to Right Wisconsin to attack Wisconsin’s conservatives in the last few days. Governor Walker, Senator Darling, and I have recently been targets of his poorly thought-out vitriol. In one of Mitchell’s attack du jour, he accused me of “doublespeak” as it relates to WisDOT funding. Let’s be clear. Those asking for new tax revenue for WisDOT believe government is not growing fast enough. As a senator, I am one of twenty Republicans in the caucus. The caucus has made a priority to complete started projects. Senate Republicans have garnered a consensus to borrow in the short...
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