Governor cruises to victory in Waukesha County with no major issues reported out of the clerk's office.
With the two special recall elections of 2012 behind us, Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus has made it through both without incident. Nickolaus’ office reported elections results numbers Tuesday evening without a hitch after she came under scrutiny in the past year for large election night flubs. Results came out in a timely fashion Tuesday evening with final results reported by only delayed by large voter turnouts in areas such as Oconomowoc, where absentee votes were not counted until after the polls closed. "Everything went very well,” said Shawn Lundie, chief of staff for Waukesha County Executive Dan Vrakas. "We’ve been working hard for the past several months to implement a system that would disseminate election results in a …
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With a recall election around the corner, Democrats are quick to label Gov. Scott Walker's administration a failure, while the Republican governor's camp claims most job losses occurred in Milwaukee under Mayor Tom Barrett's watch.
The keystone of Gov. Scott Walker‘s successful bid to become Wisconsin governor was his promise to create 250,000 new jobs in the state, but new data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate the state has actually lost ground on that front. Now, rather than 250,000 jobs, Walker will need to create roughly 273,900 to fulfill his promise. According to the BLS, Wisconsin shed 23,900 jobs between March 2011 and 2012. It was the only state with a statistically significant percentage change in employment to report a net loss, the report said. According to JSOnline, public sector job losses totaled 17,800, while private sector job losses were 6,100. Of the 29 states to report a significant change in employment, Texas led the way in …
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10:44 pm on Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Wasn't by a huge margin not by a long shot Of course when Obama won by the same margin it was a landslide.. You guys slay me. BTW, how come there's no outrage about Racine county being so late with its votes. I hear Kenosha had a big increase in same day registration, hmm first city north of the Illinois border. Coincedence? more ›