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rladdi

(581 posts)
Mon May 18, 2015, 09:50 AM May 2015

Scott Walker’s Long History of Dirty Tricks

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Source: Daily Beast

The Wisconsin governor’s years of questionable ads, campaign finance trouble, and multiple investigations haven’t taken him down at home yet. But what will 2016 voters think?

“Scott Walker is politics incarnate, with an unslakable thirst for political power and an eye on the next election,” said Mike Browne, the deputy director of One Wisconsin Now, a liberal advocacy group. “Throughout his nearly quarter-century career running for office, he’s shown he’ll do whatever he thinks he needs to do to win, letter or spirit of the laws be damned.”

“The blatant disregard for campaign finance and ethics laws we’ve seen from Scott Walker over the entirety of his career in elected office is unprecedented in Wisconsin politics,” said Melissa Baldauff,

Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/18/scott-walker-s-long-history-of-dirty-tricks.html



This is a good article on Walker that has not been told.
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Scott Walker’s Long History of Dirty Tricks (Original Post) rladdi May 2015 OP
great article, but not "breaking news" - Locking OKNancy May 2015 #1

OKNancy

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1. great article, but not "breaking news" - Locking
Mon May 18, 2015, 09:55 AM
May 2015

Please re-post this in GD or Politics.
It's a good read.

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