Business executives optimistic about future, but want Republicans to ‘fix state first’

Quoted: “I think Governor-elect Scott Walker and the state Legislature will be completely preoccupied initially solving the budget problems,” said Mark Bugher, director of the University Research Park near the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It?s a significant problem they?ve inherited and it will take a herculean effort to get a balanced budget together and passed by July 1.”