I think she was responding to allegations by the director of Human Resources at the Burke family company that they fired her for incompetence (she was director of European sales), and that her claims of the success of the company under her direction are lies. The same claim is backed by another, unnamed employee of the company, and denied by her brother, so FWIW.
Tom Albers is the former COO, and he has stated on the record
About her role as commerce secretary her (Democrat) predecessor Cory Nettles said
Burke has claimed that she wasn’t fired from her position at Trek Bicycle (her family company), but was let go in a restructuring.
Funny how this kind of thing passes under the SDMB radar, while prosecution documenting that Walker did nothing illegal is taken as absolute proof that he is about to be indicted and can’t possibly be re-elected.
Children of the company founder, who are responsible for millions in sales increases, are always the first to go.
Tragic, really.
Part if the spin around here is that is an October Surprise / Walker dirty trick.
With hundreds of thousands of people already having early voted, that tactic doesn’t really make sense anymore.
Could just be the largest newspaper in the state embarrassed that it didn’t try a little harder to verify Burke’s resume.
Way to distort. The ad accuses a Walker associate of using nazi-esque imagery on FB, that is a long, long way from calling Walker supporters (your implication would suggest you mean as a group) nazis.
I’ve been wrong too often to gloat, personally. Hopefully after today we all show a little more humility.
Scott Walker looks like a 2016 frontrunner now though. Kasich too. One of the problems, a good kind of problem, that this election created is that it didn’t eliminate any 2016 contenders. If anything, it enhanced their reputations. It’ll be hard to coalesce around just one guy.
If the indictment was being held up pending the outcome of the election, and I don’t know this to be true, then the outcome of the election might also decide if Walker will, or will not, be indicted. Both political parties will make spurious claims.
If the indictment was held so as not to appear to effect the outcome of the election, that plan failed before it started. Releasing it early could have influenced the voters and not releasing it early could have influenced the voters.
A weak response on my part, to be sure, but it’s all I’ve got.
Yeah, we kind of love it here. Debt free State economy, taxes lowered, schools doing much better as a whole, government services at full tilt, jobs and business climate improving…
It’s nice to have someone with some fiscal common sense running things for a change.
And in a nutshell, that’s the case for Walker. Needless to say, it won him three elections for two terms. BTW, what other Republican can claim they won that many statewide elections in a purple state? Rick Perry has won more elections, but that’s Texas. Scott Walker is going to have a powerful argument to make for the nomination should he decide to run.
I guess the answer to the OP title was, “Yes”. By 6 points.
I see that between the 2 candidates, $60 million was spent on this race, including outside spending. Gov. Scott Walker wins re-election
