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Originally Posted by wiphan

Is walker under investigation?

He isn't supposed to be, but the only way you can legally establish the defense fund Walker has established is if you are under investigation.

So that's confusing and implies there may be something pending and coming out in the future.

Is Rick Unger an economist? What is his background?

You can read his economic pedigree at Forbes.

There are plenty of other news stories today on this odd and unusual move by Walker, and the "new and unique" way he's decided to suddenly start calculating the jobs numbers for Wisconsin, differently than every other state in the union, and differently from the way Wisconsin has always done it in the past.

Gee - could it be Walker is trying to lie about his dismal job creation record, and cover it up two weeks before his recall election?

Here's excerpts from one:

Madison - Pushing back against Democratic critics of his jobs record, Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday trumpeted a new job creation number sent this week to federal officials.

The new number sent to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that Wisconsin gained 23,321 jobs, both public and private, between December 2010 and December 2011.

Normally, the state would leave it to federal officials to release that number next month after the June 5 recall election for Gov. Scott Walker, but instead in an unusual move the Walker administration released the number early to the public Wednesday.

But administration officials so far have not provided other figures that are normally released with the overall job creation figure, such as how many of the jobs were in the private sector and how many in the public sector, though they said they might release those later Wednesday.

Officials in two other neighboring states run by Democratic governors, Illinois and Minnesota, said they didn't believe their states had released such numbers in the past ahead of the federal government.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepo...151774215.html