Walker makes charges against Evers in meeting with La Crosse backers

Plagiarism is the latest charge being made by Gov. Scott Walker against his Democratic opponent, Tony Evers.

Late last week, news reports said that the state school superintendent took parts of his education budget from other places without giving credit.

Walker brought up the plagiarism charge in a campaign stop in La Crosse on Sunday.

“That’s their most important document for two years and we found out on Friday that major portions of what he presented this year from his budget — the thing he’s been running on — were plagiarized word for word, in some cases directly from wikipedia of all places,” Walker said.

Walker again criticized Evers for saying that he would consider all sorts of tax increases to pay for state services, including a hike in the gas tax.

“Raising the gas tax by as much as a dollar a gallon,” Walker claimed. “For a family in this state with two vehicles, that would be $1,200 a year. That would be devastating.”

Evers has denied both the gas tax claim and the plagiarism charge.