Gov. Scott Walker got rich advance for book, but poor sales (more then $340,000) [View all]

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BuzzFeed reported this past week that Walker was paid an advance exceeding $340,000 to write "Unintimidated: A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge," his account of the well-publicized fight over Act 10, which rolled back collective bargaining for most government workers. His advance could have been much higher.

The online report said Walker has sold 16,156 hardcover copies of the book since its release in November, according to BookScan. (5000 of those were bought by his own political action committee. HAH! )



When pressed, Walker — who is not a wealthy man — has refused to say how much he was paid upfront by Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House, for the book. Last summer, the first-term Republican governor told No Quarter that he would provide that information on the state's "great ethics form" in 2014.



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