BusStop - No You Can't

As promised, Scott Walker has vetoed a Milwaukee County Board referendum. The referendum's goal is worthy: property tax relief from parks and transit expenses. Visitors share the costs with a modest sales tax increase. The natives pocket the difference.

To explain why citizens are forbidden a vote in Milwaukee County on their property taxes -- one of the most annoying and unfair taxes ever invented to siphon our wallets -- he ought to step to a microphone and address the citizens with three simple honest words:

"No You Can't."

Laughter would be healthy. History -- which is now moving in the Yes direction - makes this man funny.

There is a way to make a city work for everyone. Walker's politics of "no" are moving against history. Look at him.

Proof of his History Deprived Mind? Well, his veto claim that "There already was a referendum on this issue...."  Lena Taylor actually refused to support a new sales tax.

Fred Mohs, a prominent Madison Republican lawyer, landlord, and former member of the University of Wisconsin board of regents, lost his cool at a legislative committee meeting on the hot topic of affirmative action.

The committee, appointed by Republicans when they controlled both houses of the legislature last year, is chaired by State Sen. Glenn Grothman, a West Bend Republican who wants to end affirmative action at UW, and stacked with people who oppose affirmative action.

The Journal Sentinel reports on Tuesday's contentious meeting:

"What you've done is a disgrace to this committee," [State Sen. Lena] Taylor yelled at Grothman, founder and chairman of the Special Committee on Affirmative Action.

"Can't you just shut up?" Fred Mohs, a Madison attorney and Grothman supporter, snapped back at Taylor.