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BuffaloBeast https://www.dailykos.com/news/BuffaloBeast News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Sun, 26 Jan 2020 14:55:11 +0000 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 14:55:11 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Walker drops bomb #2, this time on Wisconsin's private sector unions https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/2/19/1188366/-Walker-drops-bomb-2-this-time-on-private-sector-unions Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has a habit of telling the truth about his "divide and conquer" governing style, but only when he is talking to one of his billionaire donors (or someone he thinks is a billionaire donor.) <div class="dkimg-l"><img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/images/19896/small/rally.jpg?1361314293" alt="" /></div> Two years ago, Ian Murphy from the Buffalo Beast called Scott Walker posing as billionaire David Koch shortly after Walker introduced a bill to strip unionized public workers of their collective bargaining rights. Walker, <a href="http://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/Prank_Call_Between_Gov_Walker_And_A_Fake_David_Koch_116738784.html">believing he was talking to the actual Koch</a>, detailed how he had schemed to "drop the bomb" on public employees. Walker is at it again. This time, though, it's the private sector unions, the ones he said two years ago he was not interested in dismantling. rss@dailykos.com (Giles Goat Boy) BuffaloBeast DavidKoch DivideandConquer ianmurphy Labor Recommended ScottWalker Wisconsin _1188366 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:53:48 +0000 Life imitating Art in Walker-ville, now sponsored by Koch https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/2/8/1063048/-Life-imitating-Art-in-Walker-ville-now-sponsored-by-Koch Scott Walker - Prank Call - Shortened Version <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/w_OUMJ3X0Fk" frameborder="0" defang_allowfullscreen=""></iframe> <a href="http://youtu.be/w_OUMJ3X0Fk">Link to clip</a> -- <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBnSv3a6Nh4">longer version</a> David Koch impersonator, to Scott Walker, Tea Party governor of Wisconsin: <blockquote>We'll back ya, anyway we can.</blockquote> Those words of encouragement have now come to fruition ... rss@dailykos.com (jamess) AmericansforProsperityFoundation BuffaloBeast Citizens United CitizensUnited DavidKoch ianmurphy KochIndustries ScottWalker scottwalkerrecall Sting SuperPacs Tea Party TeaParty Union-Busting UnionBusting Wisconsin _1063048 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:54:46 +0000 Was it a Prank or Sting? https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/2/24/949210/-Was-it-a-Prank-or-Sting When the GOP is exposed, by tricky methods it's called a "Prank"; When Dems are exposed, by tricky methods, it's called a "Sting"; <blockquote>When a "journalist" dresses up like pimp to "expose" ACORN and gather supposed evidence of criminal activity and corruption, no media outlets crowed that ACORN was "punked." It was treated as a serious investigation and the perpetrators were treated as heroes of investigative journalism. At least on some networks.</blockquote> <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/23/948926/-Walker-was-not-Punked">Walker was not "Punked"</a> by voracious, dailykos -- Wed Feb 23, 2011 Why is That?   Why when Dems do stuff like this, WE are just "playing a Joke"? When the R's do it -- it's serious -- cough -- Journalism, and don't you forget it! rss@dailykos.com (jamess) BuffaloBeast Citizens United CitizensUnited Class Warfare ClassWarfare Corporate Media CorporateMedia counterprotests DavidKoch Framing Front Groups FrontGroups GOP ianmurphy Investigation Journalism Koch Brothers KochBrothers KochIndustries Labor March Media prank Protest PublicWorkers ScottWalker Solidarity stateemployees StateWorkers Sting Tea Party teachersunions TeaParty TraditionalMedia Union Busting UnionBusting Unions Wisconsin _949210 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:08:39 +0000 Jon Stewart on Scott Walker's two faces https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/2/24/949203/-Jon-Stewart-on-Scott-Walker-s-two-faces Even though the story broke just a few hours before they went on air, the Daily Show was able to use the prank call from Ian Murphy, pretending to be David Koch, on Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R).  Jon <a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-february-23-2011/crisis-in-dairyland---scott-walker-prank-call">lays out</a> pretty clearly how Walker is talking out of both sides of his mouth. <blockquote> <blockquote>WALKER: An interesting idea that was brought up to me this morning by my Chief of Staff, we won't do it until tomorrow, is putting out an appeal to the Democrat leader that I would be willing to sit down and talk to him ... but I'll only do it if all 14 of them come back and sit down in the state assembly.</blockquote> Well, actually, you know what, that sounds pretty reasonable.  I mean, even when he thinks no one's listening, he's talking compromise.  I'm sure there's no more to that tape. <blockquote>WALKER: Once they’ve gone into session, they don’t physically have to be there.  If they’re actually in session for that day, and they take a recess, the 19 Senate Republicans could then go into action and they’d have quorum because they started out that way....  If you heard I was going to talk to them, that would be the only reason why.</blockquote> What?!?!?  The only reason you would talk to your Democratic counterparts in the state senate is to trick them?  Eh, it's getting sleazier, but still in the realm of acceptable political strategy. <blockquote>"DAVID KOCH": What we were thinking about the crowds was, uh, was planting some troublemakers. WALKER: You know the... well... the only problem was that... 'cause we thought about that. </blockquote> Plant troublemakers??  You were a Badger Boy!  We have sworn to defend Wisconsin from troublemakers and all of Wisconsin's enemies! <img width="500" src="http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z152/UCLABruinKid/WalkerKoch-BadgerBoy.jpg" /> </blockquote> Video and transcript below the fold. rss@dailykos.com (BruinKid) BuffaloBeast Daily Show DavidKoch ianmurphy Jon Stewart JonStewart prankcall ScottWalker TheDailyShow Wisconsin _949203 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:42:32 +0000 What You MUST Know About Wisconsin Power Plants and the Koch Brothers https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/2/24/949193/-What-You-MUST-Know-About-Wisconsin-Power-Plants-and-the-Koch-Brothers As most readers here know, one of the hidden provisions in Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s union busting bill concerns state-owned heating, cooling, and power plants. The emphasis in the stories I’ve read has been on the sale of those power plants, but read a little more carefully: <blockquote>“[the department] may sell any state-owned heating, cooling, and power plant or may contract with a private entity for the operation of any such plant, with or without solicitation of bids, for any amount that the department determines to be in the best interest of the state.” </blockquote> rss@dailykos.com (Giles Goat Boy) BuffaloBeast ianmurphy Koch Brothers KochBrothers Labor Pizza Recommended ScottWalker Wisconsin _949193 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:06:39 +0000 Scott Walker's conversation with 'David Koch' https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/2/23/948752/-Scott-Walker-s-conversation-with-David-Koch <div align="center"><img src="http://images.dailykos.com/i/user/30549/walker2.jpg" /></div> Well, now we know what a $43,000 donation to Republican Governor Scott Walker will buy you. For David Koch, one half of the billionaire Koch brothers, easy access and a 20-minute phone call to discuss Walker's current union-busting attempts. Unfortunately for Walker, it really wasn't Koch, it was Ian Murphy of the <a href="http://www.buffalobeast.com/?p=5045">Buffalo Beast</a>, who wondered: <blockquote>... who could get through to Gov. Walker? Well, what do we know about Walker and his proposed union-busting, no-bid budget? The obvious candidate was David Koch.</blockquote> ... and posing as Koch, Murphy easily got the embattled governor on the phone. Walker's office <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2011/02/governor_walkers_office_confir.html">has confirmed</a> that the call did occur, but says that it only "shows that the Governor says the same thing in private as he does in public." Except of course Walker has never publicly said that he was considering planting agitators into the crowds of protesters: <blockquote>Koch: We’ll back you any way we can. What we were thinking about the crowd was, uh, was planting some troublemakers. Walker: You know, well, the only problem with that —because we thought about that. The problem—the, my only gut reaction to that is right now the lawmakers I’ve talked to have just completely had it with them, the public is not really fond of this ... My only fear would be if there’s a ruckus caused is that maybe the governor has to settle to solve all these problems … Let ‘em protest all they want…Sooner or later the media stops finding it interesting. </blockquote> And Walker has never publicly announced the plan to trick 14 Democratic Senators into giving him the needed quorum to pass his union-busting bill: <blockquote>An interesting idea that was brought up to me by my chief of staff, we won't do it until tomorrow, is putting out an appeal to the Democratic leader. I would be willing to sit down and talk to him, the assembly Democrat leader, plus the other two Republican leaders—talk, not negotiate and listen to what they have to say if they will in turn—but I’ll only do it if all 14 of them will come back and sit down in the state assembly. They can recess it... the reason for that, we're verifying it this afternoon, legally, we believe, once they’ve gone into session, they don’t physically have to be there. If they’re actually in session for that day, and they take a recess, the 19 Senate Republicans could then go into action and they’d have quorum because it's turned out that way. So we’re double checking that. If you heard I was going to talk to them that’s the only reason why. We’d only do it if they came back to the capitol with all 14 of them. My sense is, hell. I'll talk. If they want to yell at me for an hour, I'm used to that. I can deal with that. But I'm not negotiating.</blockquote> Nor has Walker publicly talked about the baseball bat he'd like to bring to such a meeting, or how much he's looking forward to a payoff when he succeeds in crushing the unions: <blockquote>Koch: Well, I tell you what, Scott: once you crush these bastards I’ll fly you out to Cali and really show you a good time. Walker: All right, that would be outstanding. Thanks for all the support…it’s all about getting our freedoms back… </blockquote> And apparently for Scott Walker, "freedom" is defined as doing the bidding of his corporate overlords, because he's certainly not listening to <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/22/948307/-AFL-CIO-poll:-Scott-Walker-overreaching-in-WI,-respondents-side-with-unions">the people</a> of Wisconsin. For more discussion, see Lauren Monica's <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/23/948732/-Busted:-Scott-Walker-fell-for-Prankster-posing-as-David-Koch-">diary</a>. rss@dailykos.com (Barbara Morrill) BuffaloBeast DavidKoch Labor ScottWalker _948752 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:08:02 +0000