*Yes he should brought his bagged lunch,ask those to attend to do the same.Eliminates the need for a high faluting restaurant.Use a public park.*

A public park?? Six months out of the year, parks are not hospitable places to do large-scale business. Even still, if someone on either side of the fence had used public land to campaign, the other side would complain about that, too.

The crux of the matter is: are campaigns allowed a certain amount of public funds? Are campaigns allowed to spend this and/or any private funds they raise in any legal manner they choose? If so, this is a non-story--no matter who it is about.

ah. nevermind. keep up the good work RAF.
"In the Slaughter Solution, the rule would declare that the House “deems” the Senate version of Obamacare to have been passed by the House. House members would still have to vote on whether to accept the rule, but they would then be able to say they only voted for a rule, not for the bill itself."
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/13/con...

RAF: "ref slaughter mess." huh?

i would love to be on the glen beck show! thanks for the compliment badgerlvr! nice red herring, by the way. way to forward your argument, boy you're good.
as for my grammar. feel free to correct any mistakes. mom.

They all speak will fork tongue.

The hilarity of the left against Walker is joyous to watch.

Here is a party, with supporters, that are standing behind the Nebraska cornhusker agreement bribe, Louisiana purchase bribe, the Florida gator bribe, 17 house members under ethics investigations, and with house leadership currently trying to craft a rule saying a bill was passed without ever taking a vote for the bill in the first place; ref slaughter mess.

These same dem supporters dig so deep into Walker looking for dirt and the best they find is of the +$370,000.00 dollars he gave back from his own salary, voluntarily, he should have done more. And the lunches he packed for work, like many Americans, he didn’t do while on the campaign trail.

crafty: If this newspaper is such a farce, WHY are you attempting to read it? You and RetiredAirForce belong together...on the Glenn Beck show. You're both a couple of "nut" cases. You also need to learn how to put a sentence together.

wow. how'd I do that?
dub, you've got it comin' now!
badgerlver, did yu ever stop and think it wasn't all in one year? use your head for something other than propaganda. noticed your tail is between your legs now...call your names, keep revealing your ignorance.
HELLO? if a $2,000 lunch brings in $50,000 in campaign money, how is that bad?
you people are ridiculous and bias. so is this BIAS JOKE of a newspaper! liberal opinion pieces on the hot news section, and conservatives...TO THE BACK OF THE BUS!!!
i wouldn't even take a free gazette from farm and fleet it is such a farce!

OH MY GOD! I AM SO NOT VOTING FOR HIM!
if this is all you've got on the future Governor...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAAAHHHAAAHHHAAAHHHAAHHHAAAA!

another hypocrite

Scott Walker is not my idea of a good candidate for governor. He stands for things I don't agree with. However, Mark Neumann is a very nice man with a good record of public service, and is the first republican I would consider voting for.

*The point is that this guy says he's a regular joe to try to win your vote but he's just another elite living high on the hog. *

I'm confused. Should this candidate have packed a brown bag lunch for the dozens and dozens of people at this campaign event?

We truly are what we eat.
*
I LMAO at those who who have been contributing to scott walker's lunch fund.
*
If you want red meat issues in the Govenor's race, look no futher than scott walker's campaign spending.

What are you having for lunch Scott?
*
A liar sandwich. It is full of baloney like me.

The point is that this guy says he's a regular joe to try to win your vote but he's just another elite living high on the hog. And if he lied about brown bagging it all the time, he's not going to have trouble pretending to be tight on the budget while giving plenty of luxurious state hand outs to his friends. Bottom line, if you still believe this guy, you will believe anything.

Whew! At least the AP is focused on the important things and not distracted by smaller stories like what effect the hundreds of billions in tax increases in ObamaCare will have on Wisconsin jobs, or why Pelosi sat on info regarding sexual harassment by one of her house members (Massa), or any number of less important things.

And the point is?
-

I assume many of these were fundraising and networking dinners for a large number of people. Even an *extremely* frugal feed for 200 is going to cost over $2000. If they had details, like the national story about Nancy Pelosi's extreme luxury spending not so long ago did, that would be different. As it is, this is a useless piece of reporting, because it doesn't give us any real facts. It's like saying "Joe Schmoe isn't frugal -- he spent $1000 today!" and forgetting to mention that he what he spent it on was paying his mortgage or buying a used car.

I wish the Associated Press would find someone other than an old political hack like Jay Heck to interview for these kinds of stories. Who made him the judge and jury?

JimB, for you to conclude the Walker campaign are big spenders in comparison to other candidates you would need to read other stories; like this one http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/876164...

If you read, the numbers not the words, you can understand Barrett outspends Walker. How? Easy, if you bypass the conclusion portrayed by the writer and editor of the story and look at the data yourself.

The numbers show Walker data from the 2nd half of 08 and all of 09; ~547 days. The Barrett data is only from the 2nd half of 09; ~ 182 days. This breaks down to Walker spending $44 per day and Barrett spending $54 per day.

But then, do you really expect to read the whole story from the press?

@ j'villecomments, The full AP story does address the spending habits of the other campaigns as well. Tom Barrett and Neumann have spent some on fundraising meals but have not, as a matter of course, used campaign funds to feed the candidate and his staff. Those $2000 steak dinners are strictly a Walker deal.

What Walker eats isn't a concern to anyone. The disconnect between what he says and what he does should be. Walker is a big-time spender who talks a good game. He's laid off security staff at the courthouse and maintenance staff at the Parks department both of which are clearly going to cost more in the long run. His short-sightedness will cost Milwaukee County millions of dollars and he'll have walked away on his quixotic quest to be governor.

Don't fall for it, Wisconsin. Scott Walker is even more of a lightweight than he appears at first glance.

Sandman misses the point. This guy's big campaign schtick is he's a regular, brown-baggin kinda guy. Like the other Republican in this race, the one who says he isn't a full-time politician -- but see, that's only because he's lost the majority of the, what, seven campaigns he's run in the last 15 years or so.

One more for those who don't like rednecks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUDvEen5F...

It's amusing. (but also sad)


The Republicans condemn and defend.
The Democrats defend and condemn.

The rest of us see all the idiots for just what they are and make the best of a bad situation come election day.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/2...

Are you kidding? So what? What a stupid, pointless article.

Why don't you document his fiber intake and bowel movement regularity too?

Here's a news flash--Boss Doyle has been a BLABBERING IDIOT for years! (Pass it on!)

RetiredAirForce: YOU'RE the one who made the statement that Walker has given back $370K, not me. I suppose that makes him worthy of being elected Governor. At least in your eyes. What substantiated proof DO YOU have that he has done that? Excuse me while I CRAWL into my hole to await your intellectual answer.

Badgerlvr do you have anything meaningful to offer in this conversation or the one about teachers? If so please provide it. Your meaningless redneck comment only shows your intellect level...does that make you a teacher?

Saying something is so does not make it true.

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg. A. Lincoln

Actions not words define character.

RetiredAirForce: If Walker has given back over $370,000 of his own salary, now there's a guy who's OVERPAID. Gees, and you talk about teachers. You really are a redneck.

He opened the door to such criticism by making the claim that he is a brown-bagger. However, I didn't hear of anyone censuring Sheridan, and his "dating" of a lobbyists when he was considering a regulatory bill on her industry has a directly corrosive affect on the government.

Not only has this become meaningless political fodder the dem leader for Wisconsin has criticized Walker for giving back over 370,000.00 of his salary. Their argument, he didn't give back enough. Yet, they can't show any dem politician that has given back any...

wow -- if this is all they have, then welcome governor walker!

He may eat a packed lunch daily, but I'll bet you a Twinkie he is not the one to pack it!

Typical Republican double talk. No different from Democratic double talk. Why does ANYONE believe these bone heads who are running for office?

A follow up comparison is not really the point the story was trying to make...one that is obviously absurd.

So he packs his own lunch...nowhere does the campaign said he's going to require associates to do the same during meetings. Picky picky.

It would have been a clever idea, if not for those big restaurant bills in his campaign finance records. How about a follow-up story comparing all the Gubernatorial candidates campaign spending to date? We might embarrass one or two of the players out of the race if we see how much and on what they are spending money on to win the election.