Scott Walker: Candidate for Governor, Liar

From the daily, my emphasis:

Since parking is always at a premium downtown, motorists, employers and retailers should welcome the news that parking under and over freeways won't be lost due to fear of terrorism once the new Marquette Interchange is completed.

The possibility that those valuable parking spots might disappear forever had been raised last year [. . .]. At the time, county officials were lobbying heavily for the state to pay for tearing down the [parking] annex, which now hangs over the northbound lanes of I-43, as part of the $810 million reconstruction of the interchange.

State transportation officials have said their plans don't require the annex to come down and that they can build around it.

While arguing for the state to raze the building, [Milwaukee County Executive Scott] Walker questioned whether Homeland Security officials would continue to permit parking over and under the interchange once the project was done. He said a parking garage that hangs over a freeway "will never be allowed again." [. . .] But Brian Doyle, a spokesman for Homeland Security, told Journal Sentinel transportation reporter Larry Sandler recently that his department had never ordered such a parking ban and, what's more, was not even considering it.

Remember this in November 2006, please.