Scott Walker
The very second that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker announced plans for a new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks, something inside me just went, “This is bad.”
Scripture warns us that Satan will walk in like an angel. Ladies and gentlemen, that is Scott Walker.
Like Scott Walker, I also carry the preacher’s son title but we carry two different Bibles. Scott Walker calls himself a Christian while I identify as someone who believes in Jesus and what Jesus said. From there, we carry two different Bibles. In my Bible, Jesus said radical things like “feed the poor” and “love your neighbor as yourself” while Walker’s Bible says things like homosexuality is “an abomination to the Lord,” which is markedly different than the Westboro Baptist Church slogan of “God Hates Fags.” That’s sarcasm folks.
Conservatives always accuse me of “drinking the Kool-Aid,” but I kinda think you gotta be doing meth or something to cut a deal with this guy. After all he’s done, you buy into “It’s cheaper to keep her.”
Gee, what a gosh darn, concealed carry shootin’, Confederate flag wavin’, family fun slogan that is.
Walker just tried to make sweeping changes to our open records law in the state budget at the last second when he thought no one was looking. When Walker faced outrage from both parties, he just brushed it off like Ronald Reagan giving Iran weapons and said, “Oops. My bad. But look, ya know what . . . how about a new basketball arena! Huh? Wudda ya say? Why, it’ll be neater than dumb dumb Trump’s toupee! And there will be lots of jobs too!” ;-) [wink, smile like Richard Nixon, finger point]
Yeah, cuz the last time he said that, it worked out just great.
Do you remember that this was the guy who carried around a brown paper bag, supposedly with his lunch in it (it actually was filled with dark money but nobody bothered to look inside) and Walker campaigned in 2010 on the promise of creating 250,000 new jobs – a promised he’s fallen miserably short on.
When Walker got into office, he did things he never once mentioned during the 2010 campaign. He took away collective bargaining rights for public employees in legislation known as Act 10 and made these massive cuts in public education forcing out our most experienced teachers leaving school districts with just enough to hire those at the bottom of the barrel, the kind that teaches our kids with some vodka in their cup all day long. At my son’s school, Hawthorne Elementary School in Waukesha, they removed some walls to make double-wide classrooms, so one teacher can teach 50-60 kids in one fourth/fifth grade classroom.
Walker said Right to Work was not on his agenda, but after the heavily armed right wing legislature passed it, Walker signed it quicker than he could do his iconic wink, smile and finger point. Despite massive protests to Act 10 and Right to Work, he dodged protesters and refused to compromise one iota with Democrats. Then he signed the repeal of prevailing wage.
During his presidential campaign, he compared the protesters - teachers, firefighters, police officers, construction workers, truck drivers and laborers - to terrorists.
Walker did all this while increasing private school vouchers and silently watching the jobs creation counter ticking backwards.
Walker’s massive cuts have all but eliminated the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources because, you know, there were just too many people in the DNR with this ill conceived fictitious idea that climate change is real. That’s sarcasm again folks.
All these cuts, yet Wisconsin has a $2.2 billion deficit because Walker and his cronies gave massive tax breaks to the rich. Walker got rid of the Wisconsin Department of Commerce and created the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., which he chairs, that gave out huge loans to his campaign contributors, which they can’t pay back.
When Jelly Belly and Ripon Ice Cream announced their plant closings in Wisconsin, Walker did nothing because he was out on the presidential campaign trail.
More recently, Walker orchestrated $480 million in public funding for a new Milwaukee Bucks area. Real estate mogul Jon Hammes, who has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Republican candidates and causes, is a prominent member of the investor group that owns the Bucks. Hammes also heads the fundraising effort for Walker’s presidential campaign.
Jon Hammes
Some Wisconsin Democrats went along with the deal to get it approved.
Cutting a deal with Scott Walker is kinda like going on a dinner date with Hannibal Lector. You’re not gonna make it home alive.
But, look at Seattle!
Yeah, um looks horrible . . . all the millions in tax revenue from putting the weed in the coconut. Good thing we don’t gotta worry bout that in Wisconsin because that just wouldn’t be the Christian family values thing to do now would it?
Why don’t you look at Detroit. They have an NBA team. What other similarities are there between Detroit and Milwaukee? Well, there’s that lion thing.
It’s a
#widemfail because because the Democrats who went along with this fail to see the big picture. This is a Trump thumpin’, presidential stumpin’ feather in his campaign hat.
You know, I’ve been Benghazied to death but this son of a preacher man gets his funding from some real wise guys if you know what I mean. Deep pockets with dark money. The kinda guys who got together and said, “Hey you know what would be cool? How bout we move all our factories to China! ;-) You only gotta pay workers 50 cents an hour; don’t have to worry about safety regulations or pensions and if a female worker gets pregnant, you just force her to get an abortion and get her ass back to work.”
Then they said, “Look at all the lazy people on welfare! Why I should just quit my job and get an Obamaphone, Obamacare, Obamafood, Obamamcdonald’s and an Obamacheck because they live better than me; sitting around the house all day smoking, drinking, putting the weed in the coconut, watching “Ellen,” munching on Obamadoritos, feeding their kids soda and chips . . .”
Charles and David Koch
It’s these Houdinis of misdirection, the very authors of this country’s economic disaster, the guys whose freedom of religion is under attack who support Scott Walker. The guys who bought our Supreme Court, which has a justice who admits felonious activities BTW, who support Scott Walker.
Scott Walker's message is clear: Wisconsin doesn't have enough money for public education, but we have a lot of taxpayer funds for a basketball arena.
I wonder what’s next on his hidden agenda? Maybe change the electoral college system? Unified electronic voting system? No need for the Government Accountability Board then. He wants to get rid of that too.
And a basketball game will make it fun too. Enjoy the game. Don’t forget your Kevlar vest.
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