Forget What I Said. That Scott Walker Call? Never Happened

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

Last Wednesday, Stephen Moore, a scholar at the Heritage Foundation who is an outspoken supporter of an immigration overhaul, described a recent telephone call with Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, in which he said Mr. Walker had assured him he had not completely renounced his earlier support for a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.

“‘I’m not going nativist, I’m pro-immigration,’” Mr. Walker said, according to Mr. Moore’s account of the call to a reporter for The New York Times.

On Sunday, after three days of pressure from Mr. Walker’s aides, Mr. Moore said that he had “misspoken” when recounting his call with Mr. Walker — and that the call had never actually taken place.

The turnabout by Mr. Moore came after he was quoted Thursday in a Times article detailing Mr. Walker’s shifts on immigration, same-sex marriage and ethanol subsidies to protect his early lead in Iowa, where he is facing a well-financed challenge from Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, among other rivals.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/07/06/forget-what-i-said-that-scott-walker-call-never-happened/?_r=0

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It's a simple mistake; he probably talked to DOZENS of Republicans who told him they were pro-immigration...

[alp227]

1. Ultimately instigated by Stephen Moore, a conservative.

I snooped at Freeperville, who suggests that Karl Rove ("RINO&quot was behind this.

[Gothmog]

2. The GOP base requires that xenophobia from its candidates