Claim: As state Commerce secretary, Mary Burke drafted, sponsored and promoted "budgets that raised taxes by billions, created high structural deficits and raided funds to finance huge spending hikes."
Fact-check: State GOP says Burke drafted and promoted state budgets that were fiscally irresponsible
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Dave Umhoefer
Date published: 2014-02-19T00:00:00