Wisconsin: I guess she should have copied from ALEC

[Scuba]

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/275701181.html

Mary Burke accused of copying portions of jobs plan from other Democrats


Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke is being accused of swiping significant sections of her jobs plan from earlier propsals published by three Democratic candidates who ran for governor elsewhere.

BuzzFeed reported late Thursday that Burke's plan, called "Invest for Success," includes nearly verbatim passages from the economic development plans put forward by Delaware Gov. Jack Markell in 2008, Ward Cammack of Tennessee in 2009 and John Gregg of Indiana in 2012. Cammack withdrew from his race, and Gregg was defeated.

The Burke campaign blamed the plagiarized passages on a consultant, Eric Schnurer, who worked on the jobs plans for the other Democratic candidates. Schnurer is founder and president of Public Works, a Philadelphia-based consulting firm.

Burke spokesman Joe Zepecki said the campaign fired Schnurer Thursday evening. The sections in question, Zepecki said, represented "fewer than 10 paragraphs of a 49-page plan." He suggested that the main ideas in the proposal are Burke's alone.

[AleksS]

1. Who cares? That's not a speech--that's a jobs plan.

Who cares? That's not a speech--that's a jobs plan.

Quite frankly, if she copied the entire Minnesota jobs plan VERBATIM, I would applaud her--since that one's obviously working.

It's sad she got all defensive about that right away. Why does WI pick gubernatorial candidates who are such terrible campaigners?

Burke: "Yes, my team researched jobs plans from around the country. Ones that were good, we used. Ones that were sponsored by and written by folks just looking to line their personal pockets, we didn't. Which are two more ways we're different from Walker."

[ewagner]

2. If it's a good idea...

forcryingoutloud....USE IT!

[riversedge]

3. I watched Newman on Sunday Capitol today....

on Wis Public TV. He was digging deep to diss Burke. No Burke not on--Jason Stein from MJS was on and a women from Cap Times (who was not allowed to talk too much-) Stein got most air time But I only caught part of the interview so I may be wrong. But Newman definitely was piling on the dirt over the issue.