Wisconsin Watchdog and The Daily Caller remind Wisconsinites that the career politician who taxed and spent 64 percent of his adult life in office insulted every entrepreneur by calling himself one:
"I walked out of my door one day in Middleton in 1982, and nobody knew who I was, and I built a career that I think was a good one … I had to do the kind of things that entrepreneurs do"
Entrepreneurs don’t cast the deciding vote for ObamaCare, support hundreds of tax increases, or pocket $3 million in taxpayer money from a lifetime of growing government.
Before he starts filling out an application to appear on ABC‘s "Shark Tank," someone should tell Senator Feingold that the only job he ever created was his own.
Read more from Wisconsin Watchdog and The Daily Caller about Senator Russ Feingold’s bizarre fantasy that he’s an entrepreneur:
Feingold once compared his life in politics to being an entrepreneur
Wisconsin Watchdog
By M.D. Kittle
August 24, 2016
There’s no doubt Russ Feingold is a politician.
Feingold, a Middleton Democrat, has been in or running for political office the better part of 35 years.
Still, this liberal politician has described himself as an entrepreneur.
The former U.S. senator who desperately would like to be U.S. senator again once insisted that being a politician is like being a businessperson.
In an interview with the Wisconsin State Journal in late October 2004, just before Feingold won his third six-year term in the Senate, he told reporter Patricia Simms that politics is business. Why, he had to hire and fire employees on his campaign and in his political offices. He said it took years to build his business – his political organization.
“I made all this myself,” Feingold said in the interview, eight years before President Obama would pooh-pooh the notion of the self-made entrepreneur in his 2012 campaign line, “If you got a business, you didn’t build that.”
“I walked out of my door one day in Middleton in 1982, and nobody knew who I was, and I built a career that I think was a good one … I had to do the kind of things that entrepreneurs do,” Feingold said.
Twelve years after Feingold declared himself businessperson-like, the perpetual politician has been oft-criticized by his opponent, incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson, for a lack of real-world business experience and understanding.
Johnson, who spent most of his professional life building a family plastics fabrication business, likes to compare his entrepreneurial resume to Feingold’s.
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Flashback: Russ Feingold Says Campaign Experience Is Comparable To Running A Small Business
The Daily Caller
By Juliegrace Brufke
August 24, 2016
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Feingold, who was a lawyer prior to being elected as a state senator at the age of 29, argued in a 2004 article building a political opertion requires all the same skills it takes to run a business — and critics are slamming him for it.
“I made all this myself. I walked out of my door one day in Middleton in 1982, and nobody knew who I was, and I built a career that I think is a good one … I had to do the kind of thing that entrepreneurs do.” he told the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Johnson, who worked for Oshkosh manufacturing company PACUR for 34 years before winning his seat in 2010, has repeatedly blasted Feingold as a career politician that lacks the understanding of what it takes to fix the economy.
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