Scott Walker: Economic genius!

[NeverEndingMe]

we need higher property taxes to support the welfare class

kingofAssTards needs a raise, his 11th baby momma is getting ready to hatch a new spawn

 

[JackLuis]

The Slow-Mo Scandal That Could Crush Scott Walker's Presidential Hopes

Silly Scott, fucked up big time.

 

[The_Trouvere]

Rush Limbaugh: Scott Walker should say he dropped out of college to avoid “being accused of rape”.

Yes! Ram it down their throats! That'll show 'em all this rape-culture talk is bullshit!

Rush Limbaugh is a buffoon.

The rape culture does exist in colleges. It exists because of the end of en loco parentis. Prior to the late 1960's there were no bisexual college dormitories. college dormitories had curfews. Parties were supervised. Underage drinking was punished with expulsion. So was drinking in dormitories by those old enough to drink legally.

 

[phrodeau]

Rush Limbaugh is a buffoon.

The rape culture does exist in colleges. It exists because of the end of en loco parentis. Prior to the late 1960's there were no bisexual college dormitories. college dormitories had curfews. Parties were supervised. Underage drinking was punished with expulsion. So was drinking in dormitories by those old enough to drink legally.

And yet, there was still lots of rape happening on campuses.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Wisconsin GOP wants high school dropouts educating our children

Among the lesser-publicized (but still disconcerting) provisions tucked into the 2015-17 state budget is a Republican backed provision that would deregulate licensing standards for middle and high school teachers across Wisconsin.

Adopted as a K-12 omnibus motion by the Joint Committee on Finance (JFC), the education package deregulates licensing standards for middle and high school teachers across the state. The legislation being rolled into the biennial budget would require the Department of Public Instruction to license anyone with a bachelor’s degree in any subject to teach English, social studies, mathematics, and science.

The only requirement is that a public school or school district or a private choice school determines that the individual is proficient and has relevant experience in each subject they teach. Traditional licensure requires educators in middle and high school to have a bachelor’s degree and a major or minor in the subject they teach, plus completion of intensive training on skills required to be a teacher, and successful passage of skills and subject content assessments.

Additionally, the JFC motion would require the DPI to issue a teaching permit for individuals who have not earned a bachelor’s degree, or potentially a high school diploma, to teach in any subject area, excluding the core subjects of mathematics, English, science, and social studies.

It’s worth noting the DPI’s press release also indicated both deregulation provisions in the JFC motion might also prevent the fingerprinting and background checks required of all other licensed school staff.

Poorly educated staff who’ve not had proper background checks? Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me, but apparently Wisconsin’s Republicans think it’s a fine idea!


......

Under provisions of the omnibus motion, the leaders of 424 public school districts, 23 independent public charter schools (2R charters), and potentially hundreds of private choice schools would determine who is qualified to teach in their schools. Current provisions of the JFC motion would restrict these licenses to teaching at the district or school that recommended the individual for licensure.

“Learning about how children develop, managing a classroom and diffusing conflict among students, working with parents, and developing engaging lessons and assessments that inform instruction — these are the skills our aspiring educators learn in their training programs,” Evers said. “Teaching is much more than being smart in a subject area.

“This motion presents a race to the bottom,” Evers said. “It completely disregards the value of the skills young men and women develop in our educator training programs and the life-changing experiences they gain through classroom observation and student teaching. This JFC action is taking Wisconsin in the wrong direction. You don’t close gaps and improve quality by lowering standards.”


http://bloggingblue.com/2015/05/wisconsin-gop-wants-high-school-dropouts-educating-our-children/

They’ve created a money laundering system that siphons [tax dollars from public schools] directly into private school vouchers.”

http://www.isthmus.com/news/news/wisconsin-state-budget-winners-losers/#sthash.LRvc8ugH.dpuf

 

[JackLuis]

You know Gov Walker, the state could save a lot of money if they just closed the schools and had classes on line. Yea, how about that Scotty? No pesky teachers sucking up all those pension funds, but you can cut taxes and use the pension finds for good things like, oh... having your brother repave some highways, or convert the schools into malls.

 

[Aglaopheme]

The things Walker think we don't need.
Public Schools

See above

Affordable higher education.
I don't think knocking $50 mil off the cuts to the UW System is going to ease the backlash at all.

http://m.jsonline.com/news/statepol...tem-funding-tenure-b99509663z1-305495971.html

Or science/scientists

http://m.journaltimes.com/news/stat...5db8-9ac5-f6947361281d.html?mobile_touch=true

 

[JackLuis]

https://crayfisher.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/walker-2016-2.jpg?w=640​

 

[JackLuis]

Scotty what are you up to now?

Scott Walker: "Women are only concerned with rape and incest in ‘initial months’ of pregnancy"

Wisconsin governor Scott Walker said he is prepared to sign into law a 20-week abortion ban without any exceptions for victims of rape or incest, arguing that women are concerned with those issues “in the initial months” of pregnancy.

Walker, a Republican who is expected to run for president in 2016, made the comments ahead of a public hearing in the Wisconsin legislature on proposed legislation that would outlaw abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Local television station WKOW aired Walker’s claim that an exception for rape or incest is not necessarily needed in the bill.

A Dick by any other name is still a DICK!

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Blast from the past

We’re broke. We don’t have any more money."
— Scott Walker on Monday, February 21st, 2011

http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin...consin-gov-scott-walker-says-wisconsin-broke/

Even Without Muni Bond Sale, Wisconsin Not in Fiscal Peril

Kelly Nolan
March 1, 2011 6:05 p.m. ET

Wisconsin may not be able to refinance $165 million in debt as planned in the municipal bond market this week or next, but that doesn't mean the state is in any kind of immediate fiscal peril.

Wisconsin has taken center stage this budget season, as Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, has pushed to eliminate most of the collective bargaining rights for the state's 170,000 public employees through a controversial budget "repair bill." Democratic state senators have fled the state to avoid voting on the measure.

Mr. Walker's latest tactic to lure them back has been threatening to make additional cuts or more layoffs, should the state be unable to refinance $165 million in debt for short-term budget relief. Under his plan, the state would issue a 10-year bond to restructure a debt payment that otherwise would be due May 1.

The state had originally planned to do the refinancing deal either this week or next, said Frank Hoadley, the state's capital finance director.

According to the nonpartisan Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau, issuing new bonds typically takes at least two weeks, and that process must be complete by March 16. The new financing is projected to add $42 million in interest payments over the next 10 years, said Al Runde, a fiscal analyst with the bureau.

gsgs comment- "And the farmer hauled another load, away!
/end gsgs comment

But the notion that the state needs to refinance the debt because it's broke and can't make its debt payments is "completely wrong," said Mr. Hoadley, the state finance director.

"This is about providing relief to the budget situation by rearranging the payments," over a longer period, he said.

However, there are other ways to address Wisconsin's current fiscal year budget deficit of $137 million other than refinancing the debt, said Joshua Zeitz, municipal finance analyst for MF Global.

On Monday, state Sen. Mark Miller, one of the 14 Democrats who fled to Illinois, proposed several accounting changes in the current state budget as an alternative to the bond refinancing.

A memo from the state's Legislative Fiscal Bureau has also suggested the governor could use $79 million in surplus funds from various state accounts.

Tax-anticipation notes might be another solution, as would be delaying payments to vendors, Mr. Zeitz said.

The shortfall is about 0.5% of the state's overall budget, a fairly inconsequential amount, he said.

And since unions have already agreed to proposed givebacks on compensation and benefits, "it's becoming increasingly clear that this is a question more of politics than it is of a budget crisis," Mr. Zeitz added.

"There's a good amount of political theater in what you're seeing," said Tom Kozlik, municipal credit analyst at Janney Montgomery Scott. "With any state, I'd really question whether they are going to fall off a cliff over one budget ."

That shows that the muni bond market "is confident that the state of Wisconsin, despite the protests and disagreements, will continue to make principal and interest payments [on debt] in a timely fashion. End of story," said Gary Pollack, head of fixed income and research at Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management.

—Amy Merrick, also researched and wrote

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703559604576174953308680920

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

JUNE 12, 2015

Ordinary citizens got their chance to speak in the afternoon.

Nearly all of them opposed the bill. A crane operator cited statistics showing that workers in right-to-work states are killed on the job more frequently. “Are you prepared to be accountable for the deaths that being a right-to-work state can create?” he asked. Anthony Anastasi, the president of Ironworkers Local 383, broke down in tears as he pleaded to the legislators, “Please think about the families that will be impacted by this.”

Four years ago, in a private exchange captured by a documentary filmmaker, he revealed his successful strategy to a billionaire supporter who asked him if Wisconsin would ever become a right-to-work state. Walker responded enthusiastically, explaining that Act 10 was just the beginning of a larger effort. “The first step is, we’re going to deal with collective bargaining for all public-*employee unions,” he said, “because you use divide-*and-*conquer.”

At the Capitol, dozens of state troopers (who kept their bargaining rights) and Capitol police officers (who lost theirs) were now patrolling the rotunda to prevent it from being occupied.

In southeastern Wisconsin, union ironworkers earn $55 an hour and receive $33 of that in pretax income. (The difference goes to funding their pensions, health care and training.) The pretax pay for a unionized ironworker in Iowa, a right-to-work state since 1947, tops out at $26 an hour.

In Texas, also a right-to-work state since 1947, the sole ironworkers’ local offers pretax wages of $18 an hour. Nonunion workers in the state doing the same job make about $8 an hour. “A mile of U.S. highway in Texas costs close to the same as it does in Wisconsin, certainly not less than half,” Colin Millard, an organizer for the Iron Workers International Union, told me.

“So it is only a question of who makes the money — the workers or the owners.”

“A lot of guys in our local didn’t see Act 10 as being important for ironworkers,” Bryce said, because it targeted public employees. “I would ask them, how can you say there are good unions and bad unions? It’s an idea that they’re trying to kill — it’s not the union itself. This is the strategy they’re using to do it. They’re splitting everything up. They’re going after them first, then it’s going to be somebody else. Then they’re going to get to us too.”

DAN KAUFMAN
New York Times
New York Magazine

nymag.com

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Genius plan to take from the poor, and give it to the rich


Scott Walker cut the public University of Wisconsin system by over $250 million while spending and equal amount of $250 million on the new stadium.

Madison— Milwaukee County residents behind on their property taxes or court fines would be charged an additional 15% under a proposal to use public money to pay for half the cost of a new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks.

Under the deal, the state would tack 15% onto each person or entity's bill, as it does any time it takes over collecting debt for local governments. The surcharge is meant to cover the state's costs for collecting the money.

That means if someone owed the county $1,000, they would now have to pay $1,150. The fee would be added for those who have not paid their property taxes, traffic tickets and other fees.


"To think we would put the squeeze on someone because they didn't pay a parking ticket and their only crime is being poor and unable to pay it, and then taking that money and giving it to people who are extremely wealthy, doesn't sit well with me," Milwaukee County Supervisor John Weishan Jr. said Wednesday.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statep...d-pay-15-surcharge-b99517137z1-306810701.html

The original plan called for the state to issue $220 in bonds, which was expected to cost $380 million with interest costs included, while the city and county would contribute $30 million, or about 7 percent of the total. Bice’s new total show local taxpayers now paying $327 million of an estimated total cost of $407 million, or 80 percent.


"Assuming all of these exemptions are retained, the total cost to taxpayers will likely be in excess of $1.1 billion. "

http://urbanmilwaukee.com/2015/06/01/back-in-the-news-bucks-bailout-gets-even-bigger/

The caucus is really all over the place,” Fitzgerald said on prevailing wage. “I know they would like to coalesce around something, but it hasn’t happened yet.”

Fitzgerald said senators have been talking about the Milwaukee Bucks arena financing deal — which relies on $250 million from taxpayers — and no decision has been made on whether to consider it outside of the budget, a move that could delay its passage.

Vos said Walker was personally calling on lawmakers to push them to support the Bucks deal.

http://www.wisconsingazette.com/wis...on-budget-deal-i-dont-know-where-were-at.html

Who cares about a million dollars ?

Attorney says state could ultimately pay $1 million in damages to Capitol protesters

The lawyer representing six protesters who won a combined $44,830 in damages from the State of Wisconsin earlier this week believes the total cost for unconstitutional arrests and fines handed out by Capitol Police since 2011 could ultimately run over $1 million.

Wisconsin Department of Administration (DOA) is the agency that oversees Capitol Police and is responsible for the payouts.

27 news asked DOA officials if they will appeal the initial award of damages and if they would comment on the possibility of $1 million in damages ultimately being paid out. 27 News also asked if they would seek to negotiate settlements with other protesters filing suit.

"DOA does not comment during ongoing legal proceedings," was the reply an agency spokesperson emailed to 27 News

http://www.wkow.com/story/29307741/2015/06/12/attorney-says-state-could-pay-over-1-million-to

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Over in Wisconsin this weekend, as in other places, people will stick an American flag on the porch and say all the right things about freedom and democracy, and they’ll ignore everything their lawmakers are doing to undermine the romanticized notion of what America stands for.

They’re trying to keep its citizens from finding out what they’re up to.

In one of the final votes on the state budget, GOP lawmakers approved sweeping limits on public access to records.

“The taxpayers who are paying for all of this are being told, ‘It’s none of your damn business.' ”

"Our state's tradition of open government is on the line."

“If Wisconsin wants to take a giant leap into corruption, I think that’s a good move for them to make,” Lueders said. “It’s cowardly. It’s dirty. It violates the tradition of the state of Wisconsin, and it shows what miserable cowards that these people are that they would stick this in an omnibus motion.”

- Bill Lueders, president of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council

http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2015/07/wisconsin-takes-a-giant-leap-into-corruption/

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statep...berations-thursday-b99531113z1-311454801.html

"Taxpayers need and deserve more transparency from their government, not less," said Brett Healy, a former legislative aide and the current president of the MacIver Institute, the think tank that sued Erpenbach. "This looks to be a huge step backwards for open government."

 

[Aglaopheme]

Over in Wisconsin this weekend, as in other places, people will stick an American flag on the porch and say all the right things about freedom and democracy, and they’ll ignore everything their lawmakers are doing to undermine the romanticized notion of what America stands for.

They’re trying to keep its citizens from finding out what they’re up to.

In one of the final votes on the state budget, GOP lawmakers approved sweeping limits on public access to records.

“The taxpayers who are paying for all of this are being told, ‘It’s none of your damn business.' ”

"Our state's tradition of open government is on the line."

“If Wisconsin wants to take a giant leap into corruption, I think that’s a good move for them to make,” Lueders said. “It’s cowardly. It’s dirty. It violates the tradition of the state of Wisconsin, and it shows what miserable cowards that these people are that they would stick this in an omnibus motion.”

- Bill Lueders, president of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council

http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2015/07/wisconsin-takes-a-giant-leap-into-corruption/

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statep...berations-thursday-b99531113z1-311454801.html

"Taxpayers need and deserve more transparency from their government, not less," said Brett Healy, a former legislative aide and the current president of the MacIver Institute, the think tank that sued Erpenbach. "This looks to be a huge step backwards for open government."

They changed their mind.

http://m.jsonline.com/news/scott-wa...removed-or-changed-b99532073z1-311638151.html

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Secretary-Treasurer Stephanie Bloomingdale: “In a blatant and shocking blow to the democratic process, Republicans took away the weekend in a late-night budget maneuver.

56. One Day of Rest in Seven. Include the provisions of 2015 AB 118 to permit an employee to state in writing that he or she voluntarily chooses to work without one day of rest in seven. Specify the provision first apply to union contracts on the day the collective bargaining agreement expires, or is extended, modified, or renewed, whichever comes first. [Currently every factory or mercantile employer must allow each employee 24 hours of rest in every consecutive seven days, except for certain emergency circumstances. The requirement does not apply to janitors, security staff, bakeries, restaurants, hotels and certain dairy or agricultural plants]

A blatant and shocking blow to the democratic process, Republicans took away the weekend in a late-night budget maneuver released just before the July 4th weekend. All workers should have the right to a day of rest. It is a basic American ideal. It is an inherent facet of the fabric of our social contract that is essential in supporting strong families and strong communities. If we are working all the time, who is going to take care of our families and our communities? Studies show that without proper rest workplace accidents increase dramatically. The Wisconsin AFL-CIO calls for this budget item to be immediately removed.

Now everyone knows what a 999 motion is. It is a shady and despicable way for Republicans to sneak into the budget what they want to, without having to cooperate and adhere to the standards of the normal democratic process. This grab bag of bad budget items is full of givebacks to campaign donors and provisions that will hurt working families for generations to come. Republicans should be ashamed of themselves for releasing this at the last minute, before a holiday weekend, in a clear attempt to avoid public debate and scrutiny.

http://wisaflcio.typepad.com/



Republicans also gave up on a plan that would have given partisan lawmakers more authority over a committee that monitors Wisconsin's retirement system for public workers, which has nearly 600,000 members and $100 billion in assets.

(This proposal opens the door for political manipulation and corruption,” Kathleen Marsh wrote on the Facebook page for POWRS, Protect Our Wisconsin Retirement Security. “The ruling party would have complete control over reviewing and recommending changes to the WRS.”

***I am sure that Scott Walker would like to have some of his "fingers" in that $100 billion dollar pie!*** )

The Joint Survey Committee on Retirement Systems is responsible for making recommendations to the Legislature on changes to the retirement system for public employees. It consists of six lawmakers, three other state officials, and a public member.

A proposal adopted by the budget committee last week would have changed that to make all 10 members lawmakers. The move that worried state workers and retirees who felt the system would become politicized and lose the expertise and experience of the outside board members.

In the face of such criticism, GOP lawmakers said they were dropping the idea. David Bennett, executive director of the Wisconsin Retired Educators Association, which represents 12,000 retired educators, said his members aggressively contacted lawmakers.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statep...mbly-backing-grows-b99533427z1-312118741.html


Here are some highlights of how the budget affects you:

Key provisions of the 2015-17 Wisconsin budget


http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/lo...cle_b22cfb13-c299-533d-add2-270c952ce6a3.html

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

WEDC backed firm after learning state money was for luxury car debts
By Jason Stein and Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentine

Officials at Wisconsin's top jobs agency sought federal tax incentives for a failing Milwaukee business for a year after being told that the owner was seeking the money to pay off business debts such as the leases on luxury cars.

Officials at the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. worked to get that federal help for Building Committee Inc. even though a $500,000 loan it had given to the company had gone sour within months and the owner of the firm had provided false information to the state.

Top officials in Gov. Scott Walker's administration pushed to get Building Committee the initial loan and worked to get more for the company. But the jobs agency had to pass on giving the company more funding from state taxpayers after finding numerous problems with the firm and being told that owner Bill Minahan was promising some of this second proposed loan to pay a leasing debt on cars such as a 2010 Maserati and a 2011 Nissan 370Z luxury sports car.


http://m.jsonline.com/news/statepol...r-luxury-car-debts-b99525593z1-309866451.html

(Where did the $10,000.00 come from, Mr. Walker ?)

Months later, in August 2012, Hallease of Milwaukee sued Building Committee and Minahan for more than $220,000 for falling behind on payments for eight vehicles, including the Nissan 370Z and Maserati — a sports car painted a dark shade the manufacturer has dubbed "Nero," after the emperor who was said to have fiddled while Rome burned. A judge ruled in the leasing company's favor in October 2012.


By November 2012, WEDC was sending past due notices to the company on the $500,000 loan. But that didn't mean WEDC stopped trying to help the company using others' money.

Early on, state officials discussed using Qualified Energy Conservation Bonds for Building Committee's project. Such bonds are issued by local units of government for energy efficiency projects and paid back by private investors, with the borrowing costs subsidized by federal taxpayers.

http://m.jsonline.com/news/statepol...r-luxury-car-debts-b99525593z1-309866451.html

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statep...r-luxury-car-debts-b99525593z1-309866451.html

 

[Aglaopheme]

Thankfully the two items above relating to open records and retirement committee were dropped from the budget. Not yet mentioned here, I think, was the added blow to the prevailing wage. Republicans say NO to local control. Also, no to accountability of private schools receiving public funds.

http://m.jsonline.com/news/statepol...mbly-backing-grows-b99533427z1-312118741.html

For months, Republicans who control the two houses have said they don't have the votes to fully repeal the prevailing wage law. But pressed on by conservatives, the Senate amended the budget bill Tuesday to repeal the prevailing wage law for all local government projects, including those done by municipalities, school districts and technical colleges.

The proposal would not go into effect until January 2017, under the budget amendment passed Tuesday by Republicans. But as is currently the case, local governments would not be able to pass their own prevailing wage requirements going forward.

■Sunsetting after two years a requirement that a private school receiving taxpayer-funded vouchers have a history of operating since May 2013. That provision was intended to focus public funds on private schools with an established track record.

 

[Aglaopheme]

http://www.esquire.com/news-politic...sidential-candidate-enbridge-pipeline-budget/

What Dane County did was brilliant. I guess the treat of a Enbridge suing the county was not enough, so they slipped this bit into the budget. How does tripling the capacity of 61 help Wisconsin? It doesn't. Not one little bit.

On Monday, Scott Walker, the goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch Industries to manage their midwest subsidiary formerly known as the state of Wisconsin, will make the formal announcement of his candidacy to become the manager of the Koch Industries subsidiary formerly known as the United States of America. This is a prospect both appalling and grotesque, but, nonetheless, here we are. (I warned you back in 2011 not to sleep on this cat.) As a parting gift to Wisconsin, he and his pet legislature have produced a state budget so crammed full of goodies for the people who have sublet Walker for his entire career, and so crammed full of poison for all of his perceived political enemies, which pretty much is everybody else, that all copies of it should be roped off and trucked immediately to the nearest bio-containment facility.

 

[Aglaopheme]

This could be the entire country

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/03/pew-report-wisconsin-no-1-state-household

Wisconsin ranks worst among the 50 states in terms of a shrinking middle class, with real median household incomes here falling 14.7 percent since 2000, according to a new report.

The Pew Charitable Trust report showed Wisconsin with the largest decline in the percentage of families considered "middle class," or those earning between 67 and 200 percent of their state’s median income.

In 2000, 54.6 percent of Wisconsin families fell into the middle class category but that has fallen to 48.9 percent in 2013, according to U.S. Census figures compiled by Pew.

All other states showed some decline but none as great as Wisconsin’s 5.7 percent figure.

Gee, I wonder why. Could it be the Ayn Randian splendor of Scott Walker's economic voodoo?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

The surcharge would increase state revenues by $500,000 and the district's revenues by $1.5 million, according to a Legislative Fiscal Bureau analysis.

The original bill called for the state to make an $8 million annual contribution to the project with tax dollars. The state would have offset $4 million of that contribution by taking over collecting past-due debt on Milwaukee County-issued fines, forfeitures and property taxes and pumping the first $4 million of that revenue back into the general fund, with the balance going back to the county.

Democrats balked at that plan, saying it would burden poor people struggling to pay their debt. They erased the provision but allowed language calling for slashing state aid to Milwaukee County by $4 million each year until 2035.

Senate adopted the bill on a 21-10 vote after less than an hour of debate. Three Republicans — Nass, Robert Cowles of Green Bay and Jerry Petrowski of Marathon — joined seven Democrats in voting against the measure. It now goes to the state Assembly. Republicans hold a much larger majority in that chamber, 63-36. Republican and Democratic Assembly leaders said in a joint statement they plan to review the bill closely to see if they need to make changes and hope to vote on the proposal in the next few weeks.

madison.com

 

[Aglaopheme]

Pants on fire Walker

More typical blame the media BS. Does this really fly with people in the right? I do hear them slamming the "liberal media" just as we tend to slam Faux News.

http://mobile.onmilwaukee.com/buzz/articles/walkertruth.html

But even in smaller-stakes environments, Walker doesn’t bother trying to "speak the truth." Over the weekend, he was on CNN talking about his recent Boy Scout comments. Earlier in the week, Walker had been asked about a recent vote by the Boy Scouts of America to begin changing their policy against hiring openly gay adults or letting them serve as troop leaders. He said, "I have had a lifelong commitment to the Scouts and support the previous membership policy because it protected children and advanced Scout values."

You can see how this would be a problem, with Walker’s unambiguous statement that Boy Scouts needed to be protected from gay men and the implications thereof – that Walker thinks gay men are predators who would be harming Boy Scouts absent such a prohibition. He was rightly attacked for that position by all kinds of people, enough so that his campaign had to clarify that he meant the policy protected children from the media and controversy. Oh, sure, because the Scouts’ current policy is completely uncontroversial and has never once attracted media attention. Clearly, that was another chance of for Walker and his team to paper over the truth.

But on CNN, Walker couldn’t even answer the question of whether being gay is a choice (hint: it’s not). "To me, that's, I don’t know. I don’t know the answer to that question," Walker said, bravely speaking truth to power.

Truly galling, though, is that he said a few moments later without the slightest hint of self-awareness, "[T]he one thing people find unique, I guess, whether you like it or not, is that I actually answer questions people ask me."

 

[Busybody]

enough with the gay shit 24/7

go kill a BABY and sell its parts

 

[JackLuis]

Scott Walker misfires in Philly.

Scott Walker’s campaign pit stop at a Philly cheesesteak house went awry Tuesday when he was relentlessly heckled and trolled at the restaurant and online.

At his stop at Geno’s Steaks, a restaurant known for demanding customers to order in English with a sign that reads, “This is AMERICA: WHEN ORDERING PLEASE ‘SPEAK ENGLISH,” two protesters stood outside with lewd signs, according to Business Insider.

Twitter alighted:

"Scott Walker cut in line at Geno's to order a cheesesteak with American cheese and no onions. He's not getting out of Philly alive."

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Add campaign genius to the list!

Cut ahead of the line at lunchtime, and ignore the working class patrons that must get back to work.

Ignore the humble tourists that are eating at a low cost restaurant, in the line waiting to order lunch.

Go two two rival places.

Insult the second place that was visited by not finishing the sandwich.

Leave a mess at the table, at a self serve restaurant. Leave a mess for the next customer.

Insult the local custom and preference by rejecting the two top popular choices of the state.

( I am a vegetarian, and a East Coast Yankee, and I know better than that.)


Scott Walker demonstrates his lack of awareness, consideration, and lack of powers of observation with flying colors.

A lesson on how to alienate people and lose votes.

Scott Walker's next stunt, is to elbow a baby in the face, knock the baby's mother into the gutter, and to sit in the section that would allow the mother to keep her baby carriage out of the way of other bus riders.

 

[RjThoughts]

I spent 3 hours in Philly, waiting for indoor soccer exhibition game. We hit both places but knew how to order correctly, and the locals didn't make fun of us, other than most of us having our own root beer cans LOL