Dear Editor: Excellent column ("Plain Talk: Compassion eludes Scott Walker and Paul Ryan"). Both these men are among the most heartless individuals I have seen and an embarrassment to the once great and progressive state of Wisconsin.

It is sad to see what Walker has done. His priorities (like cutting the UW budget, then a month or so later making taxpayers pony up the lion's share of the cost for a new sports arena in Milwaukee) are totally off base. His claim that anyone can live on the state's paltry minimum wage is beyond ludicrous. I'd like to see him do so for a year without any other form of assistance or income.

Walker has been nothing short of toxic for the state of Wisconsin and its citizens. He has changed the state’s motto from "Forward" to "Backward."

Would love to see Russ run against him in 2018.

BC Shelby

Portland, Oregon

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