Will Vrakas Endorse Walker?

Voters vote concepts. They vote image. They vote emotion.

Voters do not vote white papers. They do not vote bills. They do not vote budgets.

Which is why the Taxpayer Bill of Rights has serious election legs.

The point is ladies and gentlemen that TABOR, for lack of a better word, is good. TABOR is right. TABOR works. TABOR clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

St. Rep. Dan Vrakas didn’t need to say anything more in winning the special election for Waukesha County Executive.

St. Rep. Glenn Grothman didn’t need to say anything more in waxing fellow Republican St. Senator Mary Panzer in a primary.

Go ahead, pointy-headed academics, debate the fiscal impact of TABOR. Go ahead, minority Democrats, discount the revolt percolating and manifesting itself with each election opportunity.

But the unbearable burden of property taxes has pushed the Doyle Administration into grabbing transportation funds to supplement school funding.

So, who was the biggest winner in Tuesday’s special election? Vrakas? Homeowners? Wrong. Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker. Scott now has a kindred spirit next door in Waukesha County.

TABOR has proven to be a unifying economic message and Scott has the advantage of being a chief executive who can own that message. If Walker can build a fence from Kenosha County, around Waukesha and Washington counties and back to the lake north of Ozaukee County, he’s 65% towards winning his Republican Primary for Governor.