2011 Entreprenuer of the Year Says Walker Destroying

For those of you that have been living under a rock for the last fifteen years, Deb Carey is President, Founder and Owner of the wildly successful New Glarus Brewing Company-- a company that she started from the ground-up with her husband in 1993 and has grown exponentially each year, reaching the 100,000 barrels-a-year mark in 2011.

She's also the 2011 Ernst and Young Entreprenuer of the Year for the Upper Midwest and creator of lots and lots of jobs in Green County... exactly the kind of "job creator" that Scott Walker should be listening too as he tries to stop Wisconsin from hemoraging jobs faster than any other state.

Unfortunately, Walker hasn't been listening to Carey. In fact, Carey said she and other breweries around the state have been getting "worked over" and "fighting" Walker just to stay viable in Wisconsin. Carey also sarcastically dead-panned, "great way to encourage business investment."

Here's all of what Carey said in a recent back-and-forth with me on her facebook page:

JL: So sorry to see what Walker and Co. are doing to great breweries like NG. Keep up the good fight!

DC: Thanks, still fighting. Funny thing now that the rules are being inacted we see how brewers got worked over in the budget. Bull Falls, along with many other small brewers, just lost it's Wholesaler License. Furthermore, Horny Goat and Esser's, among others are technically shut down, but have been granted a grace period to continue business, while they search for a fix. Great way to encourage business investment. We are expanding our Giftshop and Visitor Courtyard but will not be allowed to serve Wisconsin wine or have a pub with drinks and champagne because we weren't doing so before this summer. No new brewers will be able to either.

This is, of course, not the first time that Carey has waded into political waters. Just a few months ago, she went to the White House to support President Obama's American Jobs Act and was featured in a video released by the White House of business owners advcocating for passage of the bill. (It is also rumored that she provided the President a case of Spotted Cow.)

Hmmm... Imagine what a time Walker would have running against a real job creator like Deb Carey!