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Wisconsin
Related: About this forumFrom Matt Taibbi's recent piece on Walker in Rolling Stone:
"He's just a doughy, finger-pointing white guy of the type the Republican Party has been churning out to fill state assembly seats or run in back-bench congressional districts seemingly since the beginning of time. He's exactly the kind of politician the modern Democratic Party is set up to beat."
I agree. But man...we are 0-3 against this guy? How? Makes me feel like Wisconsin really is turning into some kind of backwater, even though I know it isn't.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/scott-walker-gods-gift-to-the-democratic-party-20150227#ixzz3T5JpK2rJ
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From Matt Taibbi's recent piece on Walker in Rolling Stone: (Original Post)
Still In Wisconsin
Feb 2015
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ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)1. Money.
Money money money is all it is. Koch brothers and Co. He outspent the Dems 8-to-1. That's why he's 0-3.
midnight
(26,624 posts)3. The koch elite own much of the infrastructure that is bringing this product "Walker" to Market.
