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Southeastern Wisconsin manufacturers are overwhelmingly supportive of Walker's proposed budget, says Jeff Hoffman, vice president of Pewaukee-based commercial real estate brokerage firm Judson & Associates. Hoffman, the former president of the Independent Business Association of Wisconsin, primarily handles industrial real estate deals.

Milwaukee's commercial real estate professionals are enthusiastic about Walker's "Wisconsin is open for business" agenda and are glad to see that he is trying to balance the budget without raising taxes, according to Jim Villa, president and chief executive officer of the Commercial Association of Realtors Wisconsin (CARW).

Gov. Scott Walker’s two-year state budget plan will have significant impact on every man, woman and child in Wisconsin.

It will affect the roads you drive on. It will affect the schools your children attend. It will affect the colleges your future employees are studying in. It will affect the services you receive from your city and county. It will affect the buses your employees or perhaps your customers ride on. It will affect the charities that assist your community.

As Walker prepares to close a projected $3.6 billion state deficit by cutting annual local shared revenues by $1 billion, a new normal will be felt by city and county governments, school districts and social agencies.

Walker's budget repair bill and proposed state budget would result in a decrease in funding for local transit systems in the state, which will likely prompt service cuts and fare increases, said Kerry Thomas, executive director of Transit Now, an advocacy group for mass transit in southeastern Wisconsin.

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Shahla Werner, chapter director of the Sierra Club's John Muir Chapter in Madison, is concerned about the effects the budget repair bill will have on the environment and the future of many jobs in the state.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee officials say they will be forced to cut $27 million out of their budget for the next biennial plan under Walker's proposed budget repair bill.