Scott Walker's bait-and-switch jobs promise.

• Author: Lueders, Bill
• Position: SMOKING GUN - Brief article

As a candidate for Wisconsin governor in 2010, Scott Walker made a big, bold promise. He issued a press release announcing his plan to bring 250,000 new private-sector jobs to Wisconsin by 2015, the end of his first term.

The original link to the release worked at least until the end of 2012, after Walker survived a recall election. But by mid-2013, as it became clear that Walker would not achieve his goal, this link began taking readers to other pages, which did not mention jobs but did ask for donations.

This is what came up beginning July 13, when Walker declared his candidacy for...