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Walker
must take responsibility
Under County Executive Scott
Walker's watchful eye, the Milwaukee Public Museum's finances
implode forcing layoffs and threatening the Milwaukee landmark
by Jim McGuigan
May 28, 2005
It’s
time for County Exec Scott Walker to start taking responsibility.
His inept financial handling of the County-owned Museum has led to
the layoffs of over half of the staff and threatens the future of
the institution generations of Milwaukeeans have grown to love.
Walker
mouthpiece Steve Agostini said, “when people are lying to you,
it’s a little hard to do proper due diligence.” Sound familiar?
Just a few years ago, Walker, with the aid of Republican shills in
talk radio, pointed his finger at then-County Executive Tom Ament,
who was saying the same thing about the pension scandal. But that
was when pointing the finger benefited Walker.
Walker
wants to shirk blame and piously claims he's looking out for the
public. But this is a scandal, and just because it happened on
Walker's watch doesn't mean taxpayers should turn a blind eye to it.
The sheer hypocrisy of Walker's double standards should be enough to
make the public do a double take.
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Clearly
this is Walker’s mismanagement and nobody owns it but him.
Rather
than focus on the business of the County, Walker is busy
running for Governor. Walker’s campaign slogan is “lower taxes, higher
standards” – but like the Wendy’s commercial from the
1990’s, taxpayers are left asking, “Where’s the beef”?
Is
laying off employees for the museum a foreshadowing of
Walker’s “higher standards”?
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"When people are lying to you, it’s a little hard to do proper due diligence."
-Steve Agostini, County Executive Scott Walker's Budget
Director
attempting to pass along blame and shield his boss from taking
responsibility for the MPM mismanagement
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May
28th, 2005
The
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Museum
hid losses, county says
...Facing
its second multimillion-dollar deficit in a row, the museum has
drained its endowment fund and laid off 56 employees and is
scrambling to cut more costs to avoid another round of layoffs.
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