Remember that
super popular budget Scott Walker
introduced earlier this year—well, he's pretty much delegated its passage to lawmakers while he hopscotches around
the country and
the globe burnishing his presidential credentials.
The Wisconsin Governor has found a novel way to beat the heat that his program-slashing budget has generated. He just took off on a trade mission trip to Quebec, the Canadian city. It is not an ideal time or the opportune response for the Wisconsin governor but he’s not known for his proper work ethic.
To be fair, Walker has zero foreign policy experience and there's no time like the present to get some on the taxpayer dime, as Jenna Johns
reports:
Walker has been governor for 4 1 / 2 years, but up until this year, he had taken only two foreign trade trips — traveling to China and Japan in 2013. Now a potential GOP contender with a lack of foreign policy expertise, Walker in recent months booked three taxpayer-funded trips in quick succession: Four days in the United Kingdom in early February, followed by a week in April in Germany, France and Spain, and now this journey to Canada.
The visit to London cost taxpayers $138,200, according to Walker’s office. He has yet to release costs for the other trips.
Unfortunately for Walker, he's managed to cause some scuffles abroad. Like that time he told reporters that British Prime Minister David Cameron trashed President Obama and then Cameron's staffed
vehemently denied it.
Since the London trip, reporters have been discouraged from following Walker overseas, and his schedule has often been a closely guarded secret. Here in Quebec City, Walker did not arrive in time for a news conference with Canadian journalists that focused heavily on the health of the Great Lakes and climate change.
Scott Walker: master of avoidance at home and abroad.