Scott Walker facts not widely-known outside Wisconsin

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Sunday March 22, 2015 · 4:33 PM PDT

2015/03/22 · 16:33

He stalked the stage and wowed the crowd at an Iowa Tea Party event less than two months ago and climbed so fast on the right wing's depth chart that before you could get a fix on Scott Walker, The New York Times was reporting he'd already had a makeover.

But you out there beyond Wisconsin - - what do you really know about the guy?

I have created a single blog posting here about Scott Walker's history, budgets, mindset, faith, policies and right-wing connections - - with documentation and numerous links to published materials - - to flesh out a narrative more accurate and complete than what he is selling nationwide to media and audiences seeing or reading about him for the first time.

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Sunday March 08, 2015 · 11:22 AM PDT

2015/03/08 · 11:22

Scott Walker, self described as "the original Tea Party in Wisconsin," is still in Iowa Sunday, raising money for his rightist presidential bid before returning to Wisconsin for a respite to sign a so-called 'right-to-work' bill in which he'd recently professed no interest that will keep Wisconsin mired as a low-wage backwater.

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Wednesday March 14, 2012 · 6:36 PM PDT

2012/03/14 · 18:36

Wisconsin Republican legislators will have you arrested for carrying a sign into the State Capitol - - and even a camera, (though concealed weapons are OK if you have one of the state's new, easy-to-get permits) - - and a couple of weeks ago a young man was arrested, he said, for carrying a piece of 8x11-inch paper with two words written by hand on it: "Stephen Colbert."

This is a perfect pretense for an on-scene Madison inspection and campaign by Colbert himself to free his good name - - and also to help the country get a major helping of truthiness about how far down the once-great State of Wisconsin has been dragged.

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Thursday January 26, 2012 · 4:35 PM PST

2012/01/26 · 16:35

It wouldn't necessarily mean that Wisconsin gets out from under the yoke of his administration, or the right-wing agenda foisted on the once-progressive state by outside conservative funders, advocacy groups, ALEC and others with a larger vested interest in using the state as a test pad for the privatization of services and Grover Norquist's shrunken, drowned public sector.

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Friday January 13, 2012 · 1:20 PM PST

2012/01/13 · 13:20

The 99% are getting ready to throw out Gov. Scott Walker, and chief legislative lieutenant Scott Fitzgerald, the Senate Majority leader, in separate recall elections soon to certified and held.

Fueling the outrage: special interest legislation and other conservative-monied influences on state government and politics that helped fuel Walker's rise and helped kindle the recall movements, too.

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Monday November 14, 2011 · 2:03 PM PST

2011/11/14 · 14:03

The recall action against Scott Walker that begins tomorrow is entirely deserved, and of his own making, beginning with his lie of omission about his union-busting scheme, and continuing when he released it onto the people. We do not want a Governor who brags about having "dropped the bomb" on citizens, then dissembled about it - - and thus laid the groundwork for a year of living deceitfully.

UPDATE, Mon. night: Main recall website taken down in alleged cyber attack.

Hence, a much-deserved, completely self-generated recall begins tomorrow for he who wants us to believe he is that deeply religious Eagle Scout. 540,000 signatures to go...

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Friday May 13, 2011 · 8:51 AM PDT

2011/05/13 · 08:51

As a Wisconsin State legislator from the Milwaukee suburb of Wauwatosa, Scott Walker was an uninspiring back-bencher. As Milwaukee County Executive, he did set-piece battle with a more liberal Board of Supervisors, regularly introduced no-tax-increase budgets he knew would be boosted by the Board for a bigger, no-increase (sic) base the following year, but didn't really indicate any big plans for governing like the tectonic shifts he's proposing and implementing as Governor.

Somewhere in think-tank land, there's a blueprint for structural change from which he's working, and democracy in the state is yielding to authoritarian, corporatist hegemony. The goal: GOP, one-party, ideologically hard-edged rule, where business - - their taxes cut in Walker's first few weeks - - gets to run the show.

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Thursday April 07, 2011 · 5:16 PM PDT

2011/04/07 · 17:16

The Right in Wisconsin and theirmedia allies nationally were quick to allege "voter fraud" after right-wing State Supreme Court Justice David Prosser lost narrowly Tuesday, but changed their tune after the county clerk in the most Republican county in the state found a mathematical, computer data base error and gave Prosser a commanding 7,300 vote margin today.

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Monday April 04, 2011 · 9:51 AM PDT

2011/04/04 · 09:51

Scott Walker, the anti-union conservative Governor of Wisconsin, isn't on the ballot tomorrow, but two races where he's become a major issue will help determine their results and signal what could happen in a slew of recall campaigns, including his own.

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Friday April 01, 2011 · 3:15 PM PDT

2011/04/01 · 15:15

Wisconsin Republican leaders and elected officials have attacked the female Chief Justice. Mocked a female local judge. And want budget cuts that directly hit poor mothers and women in female-dominated professions, like teaching and nursing. I'm calling it the Male-Patterned Badness campaign, and I think it will push Democrats and women to the polls next Tuesday in key, off-year elections and also motivate canvassers who are getting signatures against eight Republican state senators for recall efforts.

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Thursday March 31, 2011 · 7:36 PM PDT

2011/03/31 · 19:36

The insurgent campaign for a seat on the Wisconsin State Supreme Court by liberal Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg against incumbent conservative David Prosser - - considered a cake walk for Prosser just weeks ago - - was given momentum by intemperate remarks by Prosser and the belief, (spurred by his campaign manager), that Prosser's role on the Court for the next ten years would be as a "complement" (the manager's phrase) to Scott Walker and his far-right majority in the Legislature.

Tonight - - a huge development: the defection to Kloppenburg by former Governor Patrick Lucey, (D) who had served as Prosser's campaign co-chair with former Governor Tommy Thompson, (R).

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Tuesday March 01, 2011 · 12:21 PM PST

2011/03/01 · 12:21

Polls show Scott Walker, the newly-elected Republican and rabidly-anti-union Wisconsin Governor to be increasingly unpopular. You have to wait a year after the election to recall a Wisconsin elected official, but there's no reason to wait and plan for such an expensive and complex statewide effort. Walker termed his eradication of public union collective bargaining and the related economic concessions "a modest proposal," so here's one right back: a plan to raise the millions needed for the inevitable recall.

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