The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has endorsed Scott Walker for governor, finding him to be a better choice than Tom Barrett to serve as the state's chief executive.
That, of course, hasn't stopped the newspaper's attacks on Walker.
As with Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson, Dan Bice continues writing and the Journal Sentinel continues publishing "revelations" about Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker that amount to nothing.
The latest question cloaked as news involves the residency requirement for some city employees.
"Is Walker quietly making promises on city employee residency rules?"
Imagine people having the right to choose where they want to live. In liberals' minds, it's an abomination!
Bice writes:
The head of the Milwaukee Professional Firefighters Association is very open about his support of Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker's candidacy for governor.
Dave Seager even stars in a TV ad promoting the Republican nominee.
But there is one thing Seager won't touch.
He won't say whether Walker has privately vowed to overturn Milwaukee's residency requirement for city cops and firefighters if he's elected.
"I do not have a comment right now," Seager said last week when the question was put to him.
Seager said he would be willing to talk about that issue on Nov. 3 - the day after the general election.
Milwaukee Ald. Joe Dudzik asked Seager earlier this month during a Common Council committee meeting whether Walker had even talked to Seager about the residency requirement. Again, Seager was tight-lipped.
"I'm not going to speak to that, alderman," he said.
This comes a month after Michael Crivello, head of the Milwaukee Police Association, put out a memo to city cops urging them to vote for Walker in the Republican gubernatorial primary for strategic reasons.
"Scott WALKER also offers the greatest opportunity for the MPA to champion legislative reform effecting a change to the residency rule that has an affect on every member," Crivello wrote in an e-mail blast to hundreds of officers on the eve of the primary. He also said Walker would help get rid of the provision that bars fired police officers from being paid by taxpayers while their appeals are pending.
Crivello was out of the office last week, but he earlier confirmed the authenticity of the e-mail. The police union represents about 1,800 city employees, and the firefighters union 850.
You'd think Walker's campaign would be able to provide a definitive answer on the residency issue.
Instead, campaign manager Keith Gilkes offered a lengthy attack on Milwaukee aldermen for politicizing a committee meeting by badgering Seager with "gotcha" questions because his union was not endorsing Barrett. Sounds a little like just another day at City Hall.
But what about Walker and the residency rule?
"Scott Walker, as a state representative, authored legislation lifting the residency requirement for teachers," Gilkes responded. "Scott has a record of supporting legislation while in the Assembly of lifting residency requirements."
...The Democratic gubernatorial nominee is opposed to lifting the residency requirement.
Barrett's campaign spokesman, Phil Walzak, said it seems like a lot of things are being kept under wraps before the election.
Walzak pointed to the draft recommendations by the Greater Milwaukee Committee for dealing with Milwaukee County's financial troubles, the decision by county lawyers to withhold a 2008 consultant's report on the Mental Health Complex and now the possible deal on the residency requirement.
"A lot of things are being kept from the public," Walzak complained.
Perhaps it will all become clear after Nov. 2.
Yes, perhaps it will all become clear after Nov. 2.
In one more week Election Day will be here, and hopefully all this inanity will be over. (Knowing the Journal Sentinel, that's probably too much to expect.)
Good Dem soldier Bice dutifully relays Walzak's claim, "A lot of things are being kept from the public."
Bice writes that according to Walzak "it seems like a lot of things are being kept under wraps before the election."
What is that, other than vague remarks meant to cast doubts about Walker?
It's typical of the tactics employed by the Democrat-Media-Complex. This pattern of the liberal media reporting innuendo rather than fact has been a hallmark of the coverage of the 2010 governor's race in Wisconsin - squishy propaganda and exaggeration being cast as hard news.
Where have all the journalists gone?
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