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Still In Wisconsin

(4,450 posts)
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 07:25 PM Feb 2015

From 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 OP
Money. ginnyinWI Mar 2015 #1
Spot on! AllyCat Mar 2015 #2
The koch elite own much of the infrastructure that is bringing this product "Walker" to Market. midnight Mar 2015 #3

ginnyinWI

(17,276 posts)
1. Money.
Sun Mar 1, 2015, 10:30 AM
Mar 2015

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.

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