Maybe it's because I live here...but can the sound bytes coming out of Wisconsin be more innane?
Yesterday, I noted the two suggestions our gubernatorial candidates have for advancing Tourism in the State.
Now comes word that the Tourism Federation of Wisconsin (formerly the Wisconsin Tourism Federation...or, WTF to those that knew and loved her) is lobbying for an increase in the Tourism Promotion Budget. As they should.
The response from a legislator that actually sits on the Assembly Tourism Committee: "The reality is, can you recoup that money? Sure you can. But we're in a fiscal situation that asking for additional tourism dollars is going to be very difficult."
Not if you man up and start working with your peers to understand that increasing the Tourism Budget by $2 million will result in at least twice as much tax revenue flowing back into your State coffers (and I'm being waaay conservative). I mean, seriously...if the money can be recouped, then WTF? Why is this going to be so very difficult?
Isn't it time that somebody takes a stand? Or are all the incumbants just too scared to do what's right as they desperately try to hold onto their seats in the face of growing citizen discontent with the status quo?
And, yeah...the back of our State Quarter pretty much sucked.
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