In their own words...

(Democrat) State Rep. Peggy Krusick says she is running for re-election based on her “independent track record,” which includes voting against “an unaffordable $65 billion tax-and-spend state budget that raised our taxes, fees, car insurance and utility bills and more.” She said she is focusing on “ensuring that taxpayer dollars are well spent, jobs and quality education.”

- The Milwaukee Sheppard Express

We understand if you don't want to take our word for it when we tell you about all the tax increases Rep. Garthwaite supported over the last two years.

Now you don't have to. Just read what the Democrats themselves are saying about their budget.

Milwaukee's far-left weekly newspaper The Shepard Express printed a story about Democrat Representative Peggy Krusick's primary race earlier this week.

Like Garthwaite, Krusick claims to be a moderate Democrat who votes her district.

Unlike Garthwaite, Krusick actually is a moderate Democrat and surprisingly does vote the way she talks.

Krusick votes consistently pro-life and as you can see above she opposed the last state budget because it so dramatically increased costs on Wisconsin's families. Otherwise she is pretty much a party line Democrat with enough honesty to call the budget what it was - "an unaffordable $65 billion tax-and-spend state budget that raised our taxes, fees, car insurance and utility bills and more."

Krusick's purposeful honesty stands in contrast with a bout of unintentional honesty that came from Democrat State Senator Jim Holperin earlier this year when he said, "We Democrats authorized all kinds of new taxes in the recently adopted state budget...You know the Governor's got enough little tax and fee hikes in that budget of his to sink a good sized battleship."

It took an open records request to get that out of Holperin. It's nice to see at least one Democrat, Krusick, openly calling out the Democrats and their budget.