From Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson:
Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers, the Democratic candidate for governor, may need someone to check his agency’s homework. The Republican Party of Wisconsin found more instances of plagiarism (pdf) by the Department of Public Instruction in budgets submitted to the state in previous years.
“Tony Evers repeatedly plagiarized the education budgets he authored over the course of six years — failing to meet a level of accountability a teacher would require from any 3rd grader,” said Alec Zimmerman, spokesman for the Republican Party of Wisconsin. “When you’re cheating on your schoolwork in Tony’s position, it’s called failed leadership.”
Evers’ 2013-15 biennial budget request contains sections taken almost verbatim from a policy analysis from a national think tank.
The horror.
Let’s not talk about the State hemorrhaging manufacturing jobs or the tarrifs that will disproportionately affect Wisconsin’s farmers… no. Let’s take issue with a budget REQUEST referencing whole passages from a Think Tank’s analysis… as if that’s something abnormal and never before attempted. Hey. At least it was a budget request and not actual legislation, or policy, or anything that actually affects anything, right?
When your argument against the election of someone has to dive down the barrel to referencing 3rd Grade rubrik requirements… you’re not winning.