Despite their vitriolic criticism of Wisconsin governor Scott Walker’s budget cuts, the two leading Democrats vying to replace Walker, Dane county executive Kathleen Falk and Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett, refused to say Wednesday how they would have balanced the budget. They also declined to say how much they would have cut from the state's education budget.
The Weekly Standard reports:
"Education is the top funding priority for the state budget," Falk said at a Democratic candidate forum in Madison on Wednesday night. "I do not support public dollars for private school vouchers."
But when asked how much state aid to local school districts should have been cut in last year's budget, Falk told The Weekly Standard: "Well, nobody's going to answer that, needless to say. But I have a track record as county executive what I've done, which was shared sacrifice."…
Although he was asked three separate times what he would have done differently, Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett, like Falk, wouldn't get into specifics. …
Pressed a third time, Barrett said he was moving on to talk to Democrats lining up to meet him. "These are voters," Barrett said. "You can't vote for me."
