A few article about Scott Walker inclu an op ed by Mr. Divide & Conquer himself! (via CNN) 6/23
First hi OP Ed (doubt he wrote it himself)
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/24/opinions/walker-affordable-care-act-decision/
Obama can't pass buck on health insurance
By Scott Walker
Updated 9:53 AM ET, Wed June 24, 2015
Story highlights
The Supreme Court is set to decide a key case on health exchange subsidies
Scott Walker: It's clear Obamacare must be repealed
"Scott Walker is the governor of Wisconsin. The views expressed are his own."
(CNN)The Obama administration has had plenty of advance notice about the King v. Burwell decision and the potential outcomes, but it seems the President's only plan is to continue pointing his finger at the states for a problem he created. In fact, when testifying recently about Obamacare implementation and the upcoming court decision, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell refused to give concrete answers to basic questions about the administration's contingency plan or willingness to work with Congress on a fix.
Just last week, Secretary Burwell was in Wisconsin. She could have used the opportunity to tell Wisconsin residents how the federal government is going to solve its Obamacare mess, but instead she promoted the use of "free" Obamacare services. Free for who? According to data gathered by the Manhattan Institute, individual insurance premiums in Wisconsin for a 40-year-old male climbed 83% compared with pre-Obamacare numbers, and 38% for a 40-year-old woman. For a 27 year-old, the hike was even greater. It seems that P.J. O'Rourke was frighteningly accurate when he said: "If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.".............
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http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/scott-walker-to-sign-bills-expanding-gun-rights-in-wisconsin-b99525930z1-309537451.html
Scott Walker signs gun bills; explains sidestepping Confederate flag
Gov. Scott Walker talks about the handgun bill he signed, as well as discussing the Confederate flag contoversey, and Bucks arena plan. Video by Mike De Sisti
By Mary Spicuzza And Patrick Marley
Updated: 5:18 p.m.
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Gov. Walker signs gun bills
As he signed two bills expanding gun rights Wednesday, Gov. Scott Walker said he initially declined to say whether South Carolina should take down a Confederate flag because that state's governor had asked him to hold off on addressing the issue.
Walker took heat from opponents for signing the gun legislation so soon after the South Carolina shooting and doing it in Milwaukee, which has seen a spike in gun violence. The governor said the bills he signed, one of which ended a 48-hour waiting period for gun purchases, had nothing to do with the South Carolina shooting.
Over the weekend, Walker — who is preparing to launch a presidential bid — would not say whether South Carolina should remove the flag from its Capitol grounds. As 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and other top Republicans said Saturday the flag should be removed, Walker said it was an issue for the state to decide and shouldn't be debated until the nine who were killed in a church shooting last week had been mourned.
When the federal government pushed Wisconsin to expand Medicaid, holding out the promise of millions in federal funds in 2013, we said "No thank you." We knew trusting the federal government to follow through on its promises would end with Wisconsin taxpayers on the hook. Forced to accept the confines of Obamacare, our goal was to chart a path to protect those in Wisconsin who needed Medicaid the most, while moving people toward true independence.
Wisconsin is the only state that didn't accept the Medicaid expansion funds and that has no gap in coverage, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. For the first time in state history, everyone living in poverty has access to coverage. But despite our best efforts to mitigate the damage of Obamacare, the consequences of the law have been profound as employers have cut hours, while some workers lost their insurance altogether and are struggling to pay the dramatic premium increases. Meanwhile, even many families that have Obamacare coverage can't afford the deductible and doctor fees, while others can no longer see trusted doctors.
It's clear Obamacare must be repealed and replaced with a plan that puts patients and their families back in charge. ........
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http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/scott-fitzgerald-senate-doesnt-have-votes-for-budget-deal-b99526219z1-309593161.html
Scott Walker, GOP leaders disagree on budget prospects
By Patrick Marley And Mary Spicuzza
Updated: 5:43 p.m.
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Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday he believed Republicans were within days of reaching a budget deal, even as GOP lawmakers said they remained far apart and the leader of the state Senate said he didn't have the votes for any budget agreement even within his own house.
"I think in the next few days we're likely to see the framework of a budget deal come together," the likely presidential candidate told reporters in Milwaukee after signing a pair of bills, including one ending the 48-hour waiting period for buying guns.
With a week left before they are supposed to have a deal done, lawmakers gave a very different assessment of where budget talks stand.
"It sounds like the governor is more optimistic than I am," Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) said in a written statement.
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) said in a talk with WTMJ-AM (620) host Charlie Sykes he didn't have the votes for a budget within his caucus.................
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http://www.salon.com/2015/06/24/scott_walker_weasel_why_even_wisconsin_gopers_are_sick_of_their_cowardly_governor/
Wednesday, Jun 24, 2015 09:05 AM CST
Scott Walker, weasel: Why even Wisconsin GOPers are sick of their cowardly governor
He pitches himself as a tough truth-teller, but Walker flagrantly shape-shifts & dissembles. It may catch up to him
Joan Walsh
Scott Walker brags about how fighting unions in Wisconsin prepared him for fighting ISIS. But lately what’s notable is how often the 2016 GOP presidential hopeful squirms and weasels and outright lies when the truth would hurt him politically.
After Walker ducked the question of South Carolina’s Confederate flag all weekend, his staffers emailed reporters claiming he wanted the flag to come down all along, but he thought he should let Gov. Nikki Haley say so first. At home, he won’t raise state fees or taxes to pay for urgent bridge and road repairs, so he’s proposing to weasel out of a jam by borrowing the money – and Wisconsin Republicans are in revolt. “It’s not been well received, is the best way to put it,” the state Senate GOP leader told the New York Times.
Then there’s that little matter of the lies he told about his abortion stance in 2014, trying to get re-elected. They’re coming back to haunt him. Anti-abortion Republicans seized on an ad Walker ran in October, when he was running way behind with women, calling abortion an “agonizing” decision, insisting his goal was to “increase safety and to provide more information for a woman considering her options,” and claiming his legislative agenda “leaves the final decision to a woman and her doctor.” Walker also refused during his re-election campaign to say whether he supported a 20-week abortion ban.
When out-of-state conservatives unearthed the mealy-mouthed ad and began using it against Walker, he became a staunch supporter of the 20-week ban, promising to sign the bill that was “likely to come to my desk.” Now it comes out that Walker himself asked legislators to send him the ban – and he’s also the one who made sure that it contained no exceptions for rape or incest.....................
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http://www.politicususa.com/2015/06/24/scott-walker-mortgage-wisconsins-future-fund-white-house-bid.html
Scott Walker Is Trying to Mortgage Wisconsin’s Future to Fund his White House Bid
By: Hrafnkell Haraldsson
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Wednesday, June, 24th, 2015, 4:11 pm
Scott Walker’s lack of popularity in Wisconsin is certainly noticeable. It seems everybody hates Scott Walker. Granted, I’m in among those “Madison liberals” Republicans despise so much, but you don’t see a lot of bumper stickers around these parts supporting Walker. You do see Obama bumper stickers and even anti-Walker bumper stickers, but nothing that makes you believe somebody might have violated the very laws of nature by voting for Walker. In a way, even the lack of bumper stickers is a damning silence.
A bigger problem for Walker right now, however, might be that his own party doesn’t like him. The New York Times yesterday characterized the situation as a “revolt,” a state of affairs certainly much worse than simple anger or a little grumbling.
Is his “big bold leadership” in trouble already?
The problem right now is his budget, which Wisconsin Republicans say is looking tailored more for out-of-state Republicans like voters in Iowa, than for Wisconsin...............
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http://www.politicususa.com/2015/06/24/corrupt-scott-walker-gave-124-million-taxpayer-money-corporate-friends-donors.html
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Corrupt Scott Walker Gave $124 Million Of Taxpayer Money to His Corporate Donors
By: Rmuse
Wednesday, June, 24th, 2015, 7:28 pm
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It is getting to the point that learning a Republican governor is embroiled in some kind of corruption scandal is so normal that it is easy to regard it as little more than business as usual in Republican state politics. It is unclear which Republican governor is more inclined toward corruption involving campaign money for favors, but it is safe to say that two of the leaders are New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Walker is particularly suspicious due to being owned by the Koch brothers who have anointed him as their choice to occupy the White House and hand them control of the government in return for buying him the presidency. It is no surprise, then, that late last week one of Scott Walker’s creations shortly after being sworn in as Wisconsin’s governor released a report that exposed yet another Walker administration scandal involving taxpayer money going directly to Walker’s campaign donors.
When Walker took office, one of his first self-appointed tasks was creating the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) that he touted as a “private-public hybrid” to allow “greater flexibility” in offering free taxpayer money to Walker-friendly corporations that promised to expand in Wisconsin and foster a job-creation bonanza the like the nation has never before seen. As Walker’s self-professed “signature initiative,” the WEDC would be chaired, controlled, administered by none other than Governor Scott Walker. He was, after all, the creator of the WEDC and no-one in Wisconsin was better suited to hand out free taxpayer money to corporations in return for campaign donations than a noted Koch acolyte and corrupt Republican like Scott Walker.
In an article in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, revelations exposed how Walker’s administration found what it labeled “creative ways” to give free WEDC money to corporations and ignore legitimate concerns about the abilities of corporations to deliver on promises they had no intention of fulfilling; something Scott Walker was well aware of when he created the WEDC and appointed himself its chairman. Now, some of the dirty details have been revealed with hardly any mention or attention from conservative main stream media. Even corporate media knows not to cross a Koch surrogate like Walker no matter how corrupt he is or how much taxpayer money he steals from Wisconsin residents to give his corporate donors and friends.
In a WEDC report curiously released late Friday, Walker’s corporate welfare project revealed the scandalous $500,000 WEDC loan to Building Committee Inc. (BCI). BCI is a corporation owned by someone who gave Governor Scott Walker’s campaign the maximum donation allowed by law; the scandal is that Wisconsin taxpayers saw their $500,000 loan to Walker’s corporate donor never get repaid by design of Walker’s pet project. Before any American, or Wisconsin taxpayer, gets exercised over Walker’s half-a-million dollar corporate welfare gift to a campaign donor, they should know that the WEDC also revealed all of its other records regarding “loans and grants” to corporations without any oversight, review, or accountability except by the WEDC’s chairman and man-in-charge, Governor Scott Walker...........................
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http://thepoliticalenvironment.blogspot.com/2015/06/wi-lost-6100-private-sector-jobs-in-may.html
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
WI lost 6,100 private-sector jobs in May
And fell to 33rd in new growth nationally, new data show.
Media need to correct Walker when he comes to town touting Wisconsin's economy during his Preposterous Presidential bid.........................
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@WIassemblyDems-->Scott Walker's Flagging Leadership: showing his true colors, ducking and dividing. http://www.grassrootsnorthshore.com/walker_s_flagging_leadership #wipolitics #wiunion
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Walker's Flagging Leadership
Posted by Nancy Kaplan 1074.60pc on June 23, 2015
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...........As the New York Times reported today, the CofCC has a long history of "friendship" with many Republican officials, especially from Southern States. Notable among them: former Senator Trent Lott (MS), former governor Haley Barbour (MS), and former governor Mike Huckabee (AR). So why would the current president of this racist organization be donating $3500 to Scott Walker's campaigns? The answer probably lies in the so-called Southern Strategy developed by Richard Nixon in the late 60s and early 70s. In a March 4, 2015, Salon article titled “5 Signs Scott Walker is employing GOP’s racist ‘Southern Strategy,’ Roger Bybee lays out the case. Here’s the conclusion of his exposé of Walker’s Southern Strategy:
Walker’s turn to “dog-whistle“ politics, or the manipulation of whites’ racial resentments, is as noteworthy as it is notorious. It begins with an agenda that is hostile to government programs benefitting the poor and big government programs of any kind—except for those providing subsidies to corporations and the rich. However, there is a not-so-subtle subtext of pro-white racism.
There are many dots that connect this ugly picture: Walker’s war against labor and support for “right-to-work” laws despite their racist legacy and present-day impacts; his willingness to use Willie Horton-style ads which stoke white fears of blacks; his support for restricting the [voting] right[s] of blacks and Latinos; his institutional ties to long-standing institution like the Bradley [Foundation] which are tacitly approving of white supremacy; his links to media personalities who thrive on feeding racism; and his policies punishing urban citizens, especially people of color.
At the heart of Walker’s electoral successes lies this divisive strategy. Now he’s taking it on the road and into the welcoming arms of conservative Republicans across the country. The original Southern Strategy has morphed into a nationwide effort to use racial resentment as an inducement for “ordinary Americans” to vote against their own economic interests. As Thomas Frank, author of the insightful book What’s the Matter with Kansas?, explains,
BTW--Walker gets an A+ from the NRA!
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One week after the Charleston murders, Scott Walker’s going to make it easier to buy a gun http://thkpr.gs/3673391
