Gov. Scott Walker said Monday that Wisconsin’s job creation numbers for his first year in office will be revised this week, less than three weeks before he faces a recall election that could turn based on his success in improving the state’s struggling economy.
While the June 5 recall was prompted by Walker’s curbing of public worker union rights, it also hinges on how well he’s met his 2010 campaign promise to create 250,000 jobs over four years.
His Democratic challenger in the recall, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, accused Walker of “fixing the books” to make the jobs numbers appear better than they are.
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