Scott McCallum
Scott McCallum
Scott McCallumis an American businessman and former politician. A member of the Republican Party, he was the 43rd Governor of Wisconsin, serving from 2001 to 2003. Prior to assuming the role of governor upon the appointment of Tommy Thompson as Secretary of Health and Human Services, McCallum served as a member of the Wisconsin State Senate and as the 41st Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth2 May 1950
CountryUnited States of America
This is the state of Wisconsin. It is very important to our reputation, what we are trying to project, and yet our governor is silent.
The important aspect as we look at this budget, and as we look at previous budgets, is the budget system - what I'm trying to get at is changing budgeting itself in Wisconsin.
I am trying to send directions out and keep control of state government for the final month.
The tone did take on a negativity that I didn't like and when you make the decision to go the other way as we did it very directly had an impact, you can see it with the tracking.
Maybe politically it wasn't wise but when people have different view points I think the public has a right to hear it and the public has a right to make decisions based on those view points.
What you don't read about, it's never a story of the 98 percent who are doing things right and view this as a public service and want it to work.
I was governor during 9/11, and maybe Governor Doyle doesn't understand the depth of feeling in this country towards terrorism and what is going on.
There are a lot of personal things that take place when becoming governor and I am happy to work with him should he ask. I will give him the best advice I can give.
It just happened that the course of the campaign went negative we actually went positive for a little over a week and you do the tracking of poll numbers and it hurt us. So the public responded to those type of ads.
There - Doyle did receive a great deal of money from the tribes, and it came in right at the end, based on compacts and discussions of compacts.
They may not have been the best political decisions, but I'm going to do what I thought was right for the state of Wisconsin and never look back.
You still try to be open, you try to answer these things, but there are some that clearly have an agenda and may not even fully realize it themselves.
I think there can be some disagreement as to whether Kerry really won Wisconsin or not.
I said during the course of the campaign I didn't like it and I don't like the idea of having an opponent's picture on your ads and it would be nice to see candidates sign a pledge like that.