National Governors Association, Milwaukee 2013

The National Governors Association will be holding its annual meeting in Milwaukee in 2013.

It's fitting for the nation's governors to gather in Wisconsin, the state with one of the most dynamic and effective chief executives in the country.

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

The National Governors Association will stage its 2013 annual meeting Aug. 2-4 in Milwaukee's Frontier Airlines Center, Gov. Scott Walker announced Tuesday.

The convention is expected to draw roughly 1,200 visitors to Milwaukee, who will use an estimated 1,800 room nights, according to Visit Milwaukee, the public-private agency that markets the Milwaukee area to visitors.

Room nights are the number of area hotel rooms used, multiplied by the number of nights each room is filled. They are a key measure of a convention's economic impact, which benefits mainly the hotel industry as well as restaurants, stores and other businesses. The annual Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. sales conference, typically among Milwaukee's largest conventions, usually creates around 12,500 room nights.

Visit Milwaukee said the governors group generated $1.8 million in direct spending for hotel rooms, restaurant meals and other items in 1998, when the group last came to Milwaukee. An estimate for the 2013 meeting is not yet available

That's great news for the Milwaukee economy.

Even the Leftists are happy, but with a snippy twist.

Wisconsin state senator Chris Larson tweets:

National Governors are coming to Milwaukee in 2013. Great opportunity for us to shine, regardless of who the governor will be then.

Oh, good grief!

Give it up, Chris.

I assume Larson doesn't mean that Scott Walker will be in D.C. serving in a cabinet post of the new president or serving as the vice president of the United States. I assume Larson doesn't mean that Rebecca Kleefisch will be the governor of Wisconsin in 2013.

Of course, the former shoplifter is talking about recalling Walker.

I think it's terrific that the radical Leftists are dreaming and scheming about ousting Walker.

Let them pour their energy and resources into a completely futile effort. Let them make fools of themselves.

Let Larson and his comrades have to make the case that Walker's successful policies and accomplishments are things we don't want.