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Teflon Governor won’t take responsibility for job numbers

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Governor Walker proudly promised when he first campaigned for office 8 years ago that he would, if elected, create 250,000 new jobs in the state during his first term in office. Walker got elected, but came nowhere close to creating that many jobs. But he wasn’t about to take the blame for it. New reports out this week suggest the head of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation was thrown under the bus by his boss. Former WEDC boss Paul Jadin says Governor Walker told him that his agency, not the Governor, would be the one to shoulder the blame for coming up short on jobs numbers. Jadin is speaking out about his time running Walker’s job agency, saying Walker “wanted the world to know that if he didn’t hit 250,000 jobs, someone was to blame for it, and it wasn’t him. He is now the fourth former Walker administration official to speak publicly against Walker, and endorse Tony Evers in next month’s election. The dispute between Walker and Jadin began earlier, when Jadin was pressed to provide a $4.5 million loan to a company which had donated to Walker’s campaign. In the end, that company got $500,000 in state loans, which it never paid back and has since folded. That pressure came from former Department of Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch, a former La Crosse state representative. If these allegations are true, Walker essentially blamed the very agency he created for the jobs pledge he made. Apparently with Wisconsin’s Governor, the buck doesn’t stop here.

Scott Robert Shaw serves as WIZM Program Director and News Director, and delivers the morning news on WKTY, Z-93 and 95.7 The Rock. Scott has been at Mid-West Family La Crosse since 1989, and authors Wisconsin's only daily radio editorial, "As I See It" heard on WIZM each weekday morning and afternoon.

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