OFFICIAL FIGURES EXPOSE HEIL'S MANIPULATION OF STATE'S FINANCIAL POSITION
Official Figures Expose HeiVs Manipulation of State's Financial Position Actual Records Reveal Opposite Story From His UNSUPPORTED CLAIMS about state finances made by Gov. Heil and other...
...Heil either doesn't know or he forgo to tell the people that the April monthly balance Is always one of the largest...
...It's like waving .i red ll.in .it tin animal to mention Milwaukee county to them...
...Both men also claim that they are 'rescuing' the state from this precarious financial position...
...claimed in recent public utterances that the Republican administration found the state treasury in a precarious position on July 1, 1939 when the record-breaking Republican budget went into operation...
...Basing his reply to Heil on official figures available in the state capitol, Biemiller showed that Heil's claims of gootl financial management were based on juggling of financial records in such fashion as to give a totally different picture from the true situation...
...While Daniel W. Iloan was mayor in Milwaukee, Heil refused to release the fund and threatened to slash It by more than $300,000 In the interest of "eronor..y...
...Heil of "abysmal ignorance of state finances" when he told an audience in a Milwaukee suburb that there was $16,-800.000 in the general fund of the state and claimed that the Republican administration had put the state on a firm financial basis...
...Protests against Heil's manipulation of the official state figures came from a number of quarters and with hardhitting emphasis from Assemblyman Andrew J. Biemiller, Milwaukee, who was one of the Progressive floorleaders in the assembly in the 1939 session...
...Walter S. Goodland...
...This estimated balance of $350,-000 at the end of the Republican biennium is in contrast to the $9,000,000 on hand when the Progressive biennium closed June 30, 1939...
...Nothing could be further from the truth...
...16,898,000 "But all of these figures include the amounts of the income taxes collected Mar...
...The state had S9.000.000 in cold cash in the treasury on that date...
...Heil, will soon get $886,702 in state highway funds for a street improvement project, it was disclosed here Monday...
...Of course, he may not have known the difference, but the secretary of state's books show that on Apr...
...They're always picking on Milwaukee county...
...1 has been: April, 1939 ...........S10.10fi.000 April, 1938...
...Heil simply added certain trust funds of the state to the general fund balances...
...A substantial part of this money does not belong to the state, but is due to be paid out to the cities and counties in June...
...16,970,000 April, 1937...
...1941...
...Again, nothing could be farther from the truth, because the official Heil estimates show there will be only $350,000 in the treasury when the biennial budget runs out June 30...
...Biemiler accused Gov...
...Speaking of his activities In behalf of Milwaukee, Heil told a conference in Zeiciler's office: "The other counties don't like us...
...20, 1940, the List date on which the general fund balance was taken, there was $13,183,000 in the general fund...
...For the last three years the balances on Apr...
...15," Biemiller pointed out...
...The state of Wisconsin is rapidly going broke under the Republican 'business administration.' " Heil Approves Big Road Fund For Milwaukee MILWAUKEE — The city of Milwaukee, which now has a conservative mayor acceptable to Gov...
...The official estimate of this amount is $5,250,000, but it may run as high as $7,000,000 due to the greatly increased corporation taxes...
...Biemiller said in pointing to the official state records...
...Both Heil and his running mate, Lieut...
...The figures also includes the $4,500,000 due the counties as road funds, to be paid July 1. "In other words, the cash actually available for general state purposes is far below the amount inherited by Heil from the last Progressive administration...
...Heil and other Republican politicians were exposed last wee k-end as "complete distortions...
...I hope the people of this state will not fall for what is either ignorance or deceit on the part of the governor and the lieutenant governor...
...But now, with Carl w. Zcidler, to whose campaign Heil contributed, In the mayor's chair, Hell agreed to release the entire amount of state funds for Milwaukee...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 18
