Green wants to debate deficit? Can't wait

Was that really Rep. Mark Green, lecturing Gov. Jim Doyle in a news release about budget deficits and fiscal responsibility?

Does Green think he's going to get a free pass or start with a clean slate as a candidate for governor, and never be held accountable for his record as a legislator at the state and federal levels?

The opposition researchers won't have to dig too deep to find a long record of Green voting for huge spending increases and record deficits -- first in the Assembly, as a member of the Republican leadership when Gov. Tommy Thompson was spending us into the deficit Doyle inherited, and later in the House of Representatives, where he has voted for Bush budgets, tax breaks for the rich at our expense, and the biggest deficit spending programs in history.

If Green wants to debate deficit spending and fiscal responsibility, Doyle and the Democrats will be happy to have him bring it on.

UPDATE: Dem Party release on the subject.