Promise: Consolidation of municipal services

Update: The promised plan has been put in place and already some progress

Promise: Sell underused county property to pay debts

Update: Nothing sold, so nothing to help pay the debts

Promise: Combine state, local public employees into buying pool for health insurance

Update: Some steps, but unlikely to be fulfilled in this term

Promise: Sell unused and underused land and buildings

Update: With two months left in term, no sales for this purpose

Promise: Identify $300 million in waste, fraud and abuse in state budget and eliminate it

Update: Savings identified ... achieving them remains

Promise: Require cabinet to hold "brown bag lunches" with employees to find waste, fraud and abuse

Update: Sometimes the boss even buys lunch

Paul Ryan

Number mostly adds up, but political calculations also at work

Says U.S. Senate Democrats "have gone without any budget at all" for more than 1,000 days.

Promise: Restore Qualified Economic Offer system for school district bargaining

Update: Actions via Act 10 went even further

Promise: Change mediation/arbitration rules for teacher unions to reflect "common sense"

Update: Collective bargaining changes did this much and more

Barack Obama

Fewer workers, more efficient

"Today, for the first time in fifteen years, Master Lock’s unionized plant in Milwaukee is running at full capacity."

Penny Bernard Schaber

Acreage much less

A proposed mine in Wisconsin is "about two-thirds the size of Lake Winnebago."

Scott Walker

Yes and no.

"We wiped out a $3.6 billion deficit without raising taxes."

Scott Walker

Not widespread, but a variety of hikes that size

Says Wisconsin Democrats during the previous administration adopted "double-digit tax increases."

Frank Lasee

Nowhere near 90 percent

Says that according to a study, under Obama’s health care initiative, "nearly 90 percent of people" in Wisconsin with health insurance "will have their costs go up by more than 30 percent."

Promise: Create 250,000 new jobs

Update: After one year in office, a net increase of 13,500

Kathleen Falk

The numbers check out

Says she got unions to agree to "about $10 million in reduction" of salaries and health benefits while serving as Dane County executive in Wisconsin.

Club for Growth

You're welcome, Mr. Mayor

"Mayor Barrett saved Milwaukee $25 million, thanks to Gov. Walker’s reforms."

Promise: Create fund to make loans and grants to start-up and expanding businesses

Update: Board took proposal out of budget, no real progress since

Scott Walker

Early view: They show progress. Recent view: They’re unreliable

On the accuracy of state jobs numbers.

Promise: Temporarily exempt small-business start-ups from property taxes

Update: State constitution and other barriers to this one, as we noted from the start