Mary Burke
Burke is a former Trek Bicycle executive and former Wisconsin Commerce Department secretary who announced on Oct. 7, 2013 that she would seek the Democratic nomination for governor in Wisconsin in the fall 2014 election against incument Republican Gov. Scott Walker. She lost to Walker on Nov. 4, 2014. She is a school board member in Madison, Wisconsin.
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"The nation as a whole has created jobs at a rate that is two times the rate that we have created jobs here in Wisconsin…
Says Scott Walker "gave $6 million in tax breaks to a corporation and told them that they can keep that money even if they lay…
Six convictions are connected to an allegation by prosecutors "that Gov. Scott Walker is at the center of a criminal scheme."
Says Scott Walker cut funding to local governments in Wisconsin, contributing to the "second-largest increase in violent crime" in the Midwest.
Under Scott Walker’s policies, "the typical Wisconsin family has actually seen their real income drop by nearly $3,000 in the last four years."
Under Scott Walker's "tax plan, the average Wisconsin taxpayer got just $11 a month. But corporations got $610 million in tax cuts. Millionaires got at…
Job creation has gotten worse each year that Scott Walker has been governor.
New jobs numbers are in, and Wisconsin has "fallen to dead last in Midwest job growth."
"We have 41,000 people right now on the waitlist for financial-based assistance for our tech colleges and universities," most of them for tech schools.
Under Scott Walker, "right now, we’re 46th in the country in terms of new businesses started."