Ballot Box. MWC file photo.
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – The first head-to-head poll in the governor’s race is out. It shows David Crowley leading Tom Tiffany, 48 to 44 percent. That’s within the poll’s 4-point margin of error.
The numbers come from Badger Battleground polling. The survey involved only 500 likely voters.
The poll itself is unremarkable, except for one thing. Crowley leads among independents, 42-to-30 percent. I suspect those numbers will narrow considerably as voters learn more about David Crowley.
Crowley will have to explain how, he, as Milwaukee County Executive, allowed health insurance to lapse for 5,000 county employees. Some went to the doctors only to find their insurance denied. It’s a case of gross incompetence that many voters don’t know about… yet.
Voters still don’t know about the public employees pension crisis in Milwaukee. Instead of reform, David Crowley’s solution was to beg the legislature to approve a sales tax increase. Today Milwaukeeans pay a higher tax on everything they buy.
Crowley is also a bad campaigner. He told supporters that he and uber-liberal Francesca Hong agree on the key issues of the campaign. Defunding police and closing jails are unpopular, losing issues. Crowley is such a bad campaigner that he thought Sarah Rodriguez would make a better governor than himself. When he dropped out of the campaign in July he endorsed someone who was so incompetent that their campaign finance paperwork was fraudulent. That’s a bad judgment issue.
It will be up to Tom Tiffany to illuminate the voters about David Crowley. In politics, you either define your opponent or they define you.
Chris Conley
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