Jeb Bush Sees Rising Star in Wisconsin Governor's Race

[Judi Lynn]

Source: ABC News

Jeb Bush Sees Rising Star in Wisconsin Governor's Race
Republican Scott Walker Touts 'Brown Bag' Approach to Government
By TEDDY DAVIS
May 12, 2010

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Wisconsin Republicans have yet to nominate a candidate for governor. Indeed, the state's primaryis not until Sept. 14. But two national GOP heavyweights -- former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich -- are bullish on the prospects of Scott Walker, the self-described, brown-bag-packing county executive of Milwaukee.

"The guy is a fantastic candidate," Bush said. "The event that we did together, he gave a stump speech that sounded like it was the last three days of the campaign. I mean, he was on fire. It was, it was, he's the real deal."

The Wisconsin governor's race is one of the 2010 contests that could have implications in the 2012 White House race. Much more so than senators, governors tend to command the kind of state political machinery that can make a difference in a presidential contest.

Although President Obama carried the state by 14 points over John McCain in 2008, the state was a major battleground in 2004 when John Kerry won the state by 1 percent and in 2000 when Al Gore carried the state by less than 1 percent, a mere 5,708 votes.



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[n2doc]

1. Well, if JEB likes him, that's all I need to know

Who's running on the Dem side? Where can one donate?

[GillesDeleuze]

3. Tom Barrett, a moderate dem

and policy oriented mayor of Milwaukee, which is WI largest city.

[Viking12]

8. You can donate here...

Please!

http://www.barrettforwisconsin.com/

Help preserve WI's Progressive heritage!

[happygoluckytoyou]

2. another burning bush heard from... when my bush is burning, i just apply an ointment

[boomerbust]

4. Walker

Another big business hack. I predict Barrett will win.

[mzteris]

5. brown bag hypocrisy

Found this story in the WI forum

Joel McNally: Scott Walker’s brown bag hypocrisy

". . . Two Associated Press reporters, Ryan Foley and Scott Bauer, went through Walker’s campaign expenditures and discovered Walker and his campaign staff had spent more than $24,500 on meals, often at high-end restaurants, over the past year and a half.

While supporters are being encouraged to eat out of brown paper bags bearing Walker’s picture, Walker and his campaign staff were spending $2,182 for “meeting expenses” at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse in Middleton and $805 at Timmer’s in West Bend.

Other impressive tabs paid with campaign funds included $244 at the Bay City Smokehouse in Green Bay, $230 and $193 at Carrabba’s Italian Grill in Greenfield, $230 at the Capital Grille in Washington, D.C., and $149 at the Waterfront in La Crosse.

-more-

http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/column/joel_mcnally/article_44724917-702e-5980-bde9-ccbbfc7b2b96.html

[Judi Lynn]

7. Remarkable. It's a good thing he's so frugal, isn't it?

This would be hilarious if it weren't so blatantly dishonest.

Thanks for adding some perspective to this guy's campaign whoppers.

[Viking12]

9. Walker occupies an entire aisle at Douchebags-R-Us

[unkachuck]

11. I heard....

....he fucks chickens for a hobby up in Wanker County....

[Viking12]

12. he's never denied it....

[PfcHammer]

6. "he was on fire. It was, it was, he's the real deal."

Translation, "another dud."

[No Elephants]

10. So, a guy who makes an enthusiastic speech is the real deal, even if his speech is nothing but bs?

Which begs the question: What in blazes would a member of the Bush Crime Family know about a real deal?

Intersting that Gingrich and Jeb are apparently the biggest guns the pary can roll out these days. People distance themselves from the Party's former head, Dummya Bush, and McCain's stench is so bad he's having a hard time holding his own seat, much less swinging votes to this brown bagging phony.

As Perot might say, "Now, that's just sad."

[Snarkoleptic]

13. More on moron here...

Both Walker and Neumann favor tax cuts of $1.8 billion for the wealthiest one percent of Wisconsinites and for corporations already enjoying some of the lowest taxes in the nation. Their craven $1.8 billion giveaway would add to a projected $2 billion deficit.

The only way to make up that deficit? Massive layoffs of police, firefighters and teachers, putting Wisconsin in peril.

"At a time when police departments around the state are just making do to keep crime out of their communities, Scott Walker and Mark Neumann want massive layoffs to fund giveaways to their fat cat contributors," Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate said Wednesday. "Both have a history of ineptness and reckless indifference when it comes to keeping the public safe. As governor, either would continue that shameful record."

http://wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=196244

and a treasure trove here-
http://www.mcguigan.org/Insider-Scott_Walker-Nov03.html