Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley admitted that he knew about a $4.56 million budget error BEFORE the election, but he gave a rambling and unclear response for why he didn’t tell voters or the Milwaukee County Board until the day after the election.
Crowley, the new governor-elect and a Democrat, has faced a firestorm of criticism after it emerged that the public wasn’t told about the budget error as Republican candidate Tom Tiffany made Crowley’s fiscal mismanagement a core focus of his gubernatorial campaign.
“We knew about this, yes,” Crowley flatly told “Upfront” hosts Matt Smith and Gerron Jordan. But he was far less clear when they asked him to explain why he didn’t tell anyone until the day after the election.
“We knew about this, yes.”…