The Dirty Scott Walker
Scott Walker’s History of Dirty Tactics and Illegal Campaigning
We already know that Scott Walker made a costly mistake last year in Milwaukee when he fired union security guards, but is that all? Or is Scott a serial offender and repeater the George W Bush belief that “anything goes so long as I get my way”?
Little Scotty is indeed a serial offender, it turns out. And just as guilty of being a failure in the free market of education and ideas as W as well. But you already figured that, since he’s a Tea Party candidate. And what do they stand for if not ignorance combined with aggressively stupid power grabs better belonging to a dictatorship than a democratic republic like America. Scott is so comfy down in the mud and dirt that he doesn’t seem to have an off button. Scott was found guilty of illegal campaigning while in college and the local paper, that had previously been neutral, finally declared Scotty “unfit for Presidency.”
The Marquette Tribune reported last fall:
Walker attended Marquette from 1986 t0 1990, but never attained a degree (see page 5). His sophomore year, Walker ran for president of the Associated Students of Marquette University (ASMU, the former title for Marquette Student Government). He was accused of violating campaign guidelines on multiple occasions.
The Tribune reported then that he was found guilty of illegal campaigning two weeks before his candidacy became official. Later, a Walker campaign worker was seen placing brochures under doors at the YMCA. Door-to-door campaigning was strictly prohibited.
Walker initially denied this but later admitted to the violation, which resulted in lost campaign privileges at the YMCA.In the run-up to Election Day, the Tribune’s editorial board endorsed Walker’s opponent John Quigley, but said either candidate had the potential to serve effectively. However, the Tribune revised its editorial the following day, calling Walker “unfit for presidency.”
A pause while we wonder just what kind of person is so ambitious, so malevolent, so Machiavellian ends-justify-the-means type that they repeatedly campaign illegally in college. If a person starts cheating so maliciously in college that they are called “unfit” for the job they seek when the stakes are basically nothing compared to a state wide or national fight, it’s safe to conclude that they are already the dredges of ethics in politics. Lucky for Scott, this inability to operate in an ethical manner makes him a star in the modern Republican Party.
But it’s not just his lack of ethics that marked Scott as a Republican star. No, he also had that other must have quality for the modern day party; Scott never finished college. The Journal Sentinel reported:
“Walker declined to release his transcripts, but his campaign said he had a grade-point average of 2.59, in the C’s. He had just established status as a senior when he left after four years of mostly full-time coursework at Marquette University. Walker’s supporters – and even some of his detractors – say it shouldn’t matter that he didn’t attain a degree.
“There are tens of thousands of people with master’s degrees who don’t have the common sense God gave a rabbit,” said state Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend), who has a law degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Whether you spend two, four (or) six years hanging around a classroom has no bearing on whether you can hold elective office. . . . Anybody who knows Scott Walker knows he could take six months off and sit in a boring classroom and it wouldn’t make him one whit more qualified.””
Hey, fellas, you don’t have to tell me. I would place money that Scott Walker couldn’t become more qualified under any circumstances because he suffers from a failure to think critically. He is incapable of learning and applying information to new situations. He is fundamentally an ignorant person, doomed to repeat his violations of state law because he can’t seem to grasp the concept of limited powers.
And that’s just the way the Republican Party likes their candidates; dumb as toast, dumb enough to think they know the answers. Dumb enough to never second-guess themselves. And while a college education doesn’t guarantee that one will develop critical thinking skills, it’s a mighty fine attempt toward growing one’s intellectual capacity. So, if one found themselves wanting intellectually, they might take advantage of the free market opportunity to succeed by pursuing with excellence a college degree. But that’s not how the Republican Party rolls.
Republicans want us to lower our standards for their candidates. In order to justify this, they say the common person can lead as well as the “elite”. And they sure can, Bubbas – but why can’t that common man do his level best to be the best he can be? What does the Republican Party have against merit and hard work? Why is the Republican Party marketing mediocrity and immorality as their New Great Thing?
Obviously Republicans are afraid of successful, intelligent people who aren’t afraid to use the sense God gave them to pursue every opportunity given to them in this great land in order to better themselves. See, that’s the common person most of us can get behind – the hard working one, the one with common sense, the one who knows enough to know he/she doesn’t know everything and is willing to humbly submit to education. But humility isn’t something Republicans value either, along with ethics and education.
And then there’s the Nixonian secrecy, paranoia and over sensitivity about his failure to compete in the free market of education. He refused to release his transcripts (so much for transparency). He had an uninspiring GPA. We don’t know whether it was his low grade point average or his illegal activities that drove him to drop out. But we do know this makes him ripe fruit to run for President on the Republican ticket. Gosh, I can see the debates between Scotty and Sarah now. Oh, how the mighty GOP have fallen. But this is what happens when a Party sells out to the Koch brothers and the religious right and basically stands for nothing; they have to dumb everyone else down to keep them from catching on to the fact that the GOP doesn’t stand for fiscal responsibility, hard work, meritocracy, free market principles, or equal opportunity. They stand for whatever the Koch brothers et al want and then they run around trying to spin that to make it appealing to the American people; hence, the “common man” y’all want to have a beer with narrative.
The TeaPublican’s propensity for college dropouts is obvious. Not only are their media leaders college drop outs (any and all of ‘em), but their political leaders are too (as Karl Rove, that bastion of thuggery demonstrated so well). While I would never suggest one must have a college degree in order to run for any office, I would suggest that it would be a good thing to have. We are, after all, attempting to have the cream rise to the top, no? Our leaders are supposed to be role models for our children, right? Don’t tell anyone, but it’s the Republicans who keep claiming they are for a meritocracy (“if you lazy liberals want something, come and work for it like we do”) and yet in reality, they are running and winning the race to the bottom.
Republicans want a free market and yet they want handicaps for their candidates: We are supposed to lower the bar for Sarah Palin who doesn’t read, for Christine O’Donnell who doesn’t read and cheats on her campaign finances, for Jan Brewer who never went to college and can’t manage a budget without murdering people, and for Scott Walker who doesn’t know what he doesn’t know about his own state constitution and laws. See, that’s the thing about ignorant people, they make great puppets.
Scott is busy violating his state constitution by attempting to unilaterally revoke some unions collective bargaining powers while leaving others in place, and clearly violating the contractual agreement between the state and the workers and since he’s already made an epic clown of himself making this mistake last year (and just last month got spanked with a huge financial hit for it but who cares since the state has to pay for Scotty’s mistake), one has to ask if he is stupid or evil. Or is he just stupid for evil? Uh huh. He’s stupid for evil. He’s a Koch sucking fool. A puppet.
The TeaPublicans get away with having college drop out scoundrels on their tickets by playing offense with the media about “liberal elites”. But the truth is that the malignant narcissism displayed in their candidates is a problem. They draw ignorant, power hungry people with no grasp of the damage they can inflict because of their own ignorance. They draw people like Christine O’Donnell, Sarah Palin and Scott Walker- people who play fast and loose with the law because they are ignorant enough to believe they are fit to be dictators. You truly have to be ignorant to think that you can and should be allowed to do whatever you please.
A wise person knows to avoid unilateral decision making, especially in a democracy set up with checks and balances for a reason. But none of these TeaPublicans understand the reasons for these power speed bumps, because they have chosen to remain ignorant enough to plow confidently over things like the constitution.
Scott Walker is a poster boy for the modern day GOP. He has a dark, dirty past wherein he cheated, played dirty and illegal and got busted. He’s willfully ignorant. He’s a failure in the free market of education. He doesn’t believe in checks and balances. He doesn’t understand limited powers. He’s ethically devoid enough to ride roughshod over the basic shared ideals of morality and fairness. He’s too narcissistic to think he needs to learn anything. In other words, Scott Walker is the perfect Republican Puppet. He’s a mini W; W sans the charm and the semblance of the barest brush with education.
Nope, Scotty is all raw, pure power grab narcissism and immorality with no buffers. They dressed him up but they can’t take him out.
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Failed Alaska Senate candidate Joe W. Miller is another sleazy corrupt ignorant (albeit “educated”) Tea Party darling. It’s no coincidence Sarah Palin endorsed him.
How did such a significant number of Americans morph into soulless hollow mock humans?
Worse, how do these frauds get elected to public office?
Apathy. Hopefully, a valuable lesson has been learned and this will not happen again.
I dislike Walker and Wisconsin Republicans immensely for trying to strip unions of their rights, but… this entire blog post is just silly. I’m a university student currently, and every single year there are student government campaign violations. Every. Single. Year. In fact, last year BOTH candidates for president had to face the elections commission because both of them were charged with illegal campaign tactics. This is not at all unique to Walker, or his school, or my school. It is an extremely common occurence.
There are plenty of perfectly legitimate reasons for hating Walker. Something he did in college that everyone does? Not one of those reasons.
I perceived the point to this article was to demonstrate a pattern of behavior over time. Walker’s publicly available history demonstrates actions that suggest that he doesn’t feel that rules are something he needs to follow.
Right. And anyone who argues that everyone cheats in college is obviously projecting. Many politicians are Phi Beta Kappa; awarded for both academic and ethical excellence by universities. Ethics do matter and some people do have them, contrary to this person’s lame defense.
I’d think that most people would have those expectations, but the way the right dismisses ethical lapses on their side is endemic of their lowered standards.
I’d venture that their ability to dismiss hypocrisy stems from that enculturated authoritarianism. Imagine the contortions the mind has to go through to keep lying to itself.
Authoritarianism builds psyches as bedposts stuck with gum. New information is never evaluated or cross checked, it’s just glommed onto whatever is already there. Imagine the desperate strength of an ego built of so many disparate pieces – trying to deal with the changes and information flood in this era.
That’s the strength that the Kochs are using in their quest to operate their businesses and lives however the heck they want. It truly is might makes right for them. No action of theirs deviates from that message.
if you’re in college than one would hope that your thinking capabilities would be such as to be able to encompass the entire article as to indicate that this is not Mr. Scott Walker’s first ride in the rodeo. Rather a life full of little sleazy actions.
I also don’t believe that anyone mentioned hate here. That’s quite commonly a term for given the people who don’t agree with you. But hopefully in time you will understand that the rights of people cannot be just taken away. Especially when you are in a collective bargaining agreement with people, and especially as you move out into the job market
Alex, it is not the college behavior but the pattern of that behavior! It goes to blind ambition, disregard for the rule of law, lying, arrogance regarding the rightness of your opinions, disregard for others, lack of respect for any and all that disagree with you, bullying , manipulation, susceptability to greed factors, total lack of critical thinking!
Have had to relieve some over zealous volunteers in campaigns of their duties and have had a couple of ‘come to Jesus meetings’ with the principals/candidates but the latest republican gaggle leave a great deal to be desired in the line of Civil Servants! Walker is not one—worse still he is a uneducated lemming!!
Are you saying that because many people cheat every year, that it’s OK? I think Sarah is trying to point out that this is a pattern with this guy. I think anyone who cheats is beneath contempt. You either win honestly or lose honestly. I take the side of a loser any day, as long as he’s honest.
What pattern, you want to explain to me any other violation of illegal campaigning. A pattern means many incidents, not just one. You really need to do some homework here. Simply saying something doesn’t make it the truth, nor does one incident make a pattern.
Alex,Just because everyone else does it is not reason enough to condone the practice.Not doing the right thing commands no respect !
Another Gov. Walker Lie!
http://blogs.forbes.com/rickungar/2011/02/25/the-wisconsin-lie-exposed-taxpayers-actually-contribute-nothing-to-public-employee-pensions/
Alex, when you use that broadbrush to paint a picture of how “everyone does it” you’re diminishing yourself and others. As someone who was a member of student government for my last two years in college, I can assure you that not everyone cheats. I didn’t and I don’t know of anyone else I was serving with who did, either. Many of us have ethics and morals that we try to live up to. If we don’t hold people to these standards from an early age, they will never learn to live them.
However, it is also obvious that you missed the point that I believe was intended by Sarah, the author of the post. His past behavior is in direct correlation to his current behavior. He obviously didn’t learn from his mistakes as you would hope someone would but instead took his lack of ethics to a higher level. He continues to lie and cheat to this day. This pattern of behavior is often evident in people who get away with it early on in life. However, Walker didn’t get away with it, he just tried harder to cover it up. It’s not working, thankfully, as the voters of Wisconsin have seen through him and will either send him packing via a recall or definitely not re-elect him if the recall is not successful. The sooner Walker and his cohorts in the Republican Wisconsin Senate leave their positions, the better for all the citizens of Wisconsin. I also hope this will serve as fair notice that although some may get away with this behavior due to overwhelming majorities in their state government, we’ll remember in 2012. It works both ways, Tea Partiers!
Just because something is a common occurrence (?sp?) does not make it acceptable in an elected official. Kind of like, “”Two wrongs don’t make a right.” We should all hope for no violations and not accept them because they happen to be relatively common.
Oy…what a terrible argument.
JUST because ‘everyone’ does something (which I sincerely doubt ‘everyone’ is doing) doesn’t make the act ethical NOR acceptable.
I used that argument with my mother 20 some years ago to justify actions I WANTED to do…and you know what parent’s USED to say?
“If ‘everyone’ is jumping of a bridge, would you join them?”
The idea behind that comment, THAT PARENT’S used to tell their progeny…was that just because something is popular or done by many doesn’t make it right.
As a college student, I would hope you are familiar with the concept of “argument ad populum”. It isn’t accepted by most University professors…and shouldn’t be acceptable to a student either.
¿Snotty Scotty, huh? Well, everyone knows puppets don’t have brains in their heads. They have sawdust.
Brilliantly said! Love it.
he refused to release his transcripts? I thought that only Democrats did that?
you’re absolutely right. The Republicans defend billionaires right to make money, they defend the rights of CEOs to make obscene wages yet do everything they can to make sure that the middle class and lower class don’t make over 50,000.
I believe in the future which is coming very soon, Mr. Scott Walker will be in a whole excrement pile of trouble. Sending out the state police that someone here noted earlier has about 18 federal laws broken. and quite frankly I’m not sure if he can make it through his term. Watch for Sarah to buy a house in Wisconsin soon
He’s doing a great job of writing his own political obituary in the long run, regardless of the particular outcome of what he’s trying to do. I would be willing to bet that a lot of people who are falling for his okey doke will be suffering a bad case of buyers’ remorse in the event that he gets his way. I firmly believe that one day in the not-too-distant future, people will be shaking their heads and asking themselves: “What was I thinking by carrying water for people who would drown me?”
Again, we see Republican contempt for higher learning. The Republican official here says that if Walker spent six more months in a “boring” classroom, it wouldn’t make him any more qualified. Firstly, it wasn’t that Walker was excelling at college at dropped out six months before graduating. It’s that his performance was mediocre, at best, for the length of his truncated academic career. Secondly, only an anti-intellectual would dismiss all college courses as “boring.” “Boring” is the classic anti-intellectual charge against anything that requires actual application of evolved intellect. Walker & Co’s contempt for education is on display in their gruesome hack job against teachers’ rights.
So true. As I said, though, Walker could spend his life in college and still never learn a thing, so they are correct. He can’t improve. They just didn’t mean it that way.
And what does that say about his true intellectual capacity?
Our intelligence isn’t marked by the books we’ve read or the things we remember, but our ability to apply lessons from the past and other things we have learned to new situations. HELLO TEA PARTY and SCOTT WALKER. Remember the last time the door hit you in the bum of your incompetence?
For those defending Walker, he was just found guilty of firing union members wrongly last month for something he did in Milwaukee. Ain’t his first rodeo with the ethical failures and violations of the law, that’s for sure.
Amen,Sarah
Amen, Sarah
Off topic slightly, but mandatory reading
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph
Gov. Walker is a PUTZ, enough said!
To me, the Tea Party is the political equivalent of a “heat check” shot in basketball. How interesting to put people with that profile in the limelight and see how the population reacts to them. These people are extreme conservatives who have a hierarchical view of the world. If they’re in power, they think they can do no wrong because hey, no one is authorized to tell them they’re wrong. Like Walker says in his “conversation” with David Kock, he takes immense pride on never listening to what other people have to say, and never budging an inch. The only way to get rid of people like that is to kick them out. So will the people kick them out, or what?
we’re trying, we’re trying! we have to wait a year to recall him.
Good luck susan.
I can always spot a rant by the lack of use if the Return key.
Either I mis-posted or the comment I was replying too went *poof*. Sorry.
We had a few of those, Karen. Maybe he went someplace to learn to reed an spel gud. They might even teech him to spell F-U-K.
“The secret to freedom lies in educating people,whereas the secret to tryanny is keeping them ignorant” Maximilien Roperspierre
enough said about the R’s
Absolutely correct.
Are you for real….
The right would call this article a vicious personal attack on Walker. Their followers will believe it too. The left would call this accurate. Thier followers will believe it. Back to the stalemate that we always seem to be in with our government.
Might be an attack, but it was done with his own actions from his own past.
Nice attempt at shifting the argument from evaluating Scott Walkers actions and there results to the equivalent of an angels on pins discussion.
This article simply discusses Scott Walkers pattern of choices throughout his (public) existence.
That is no personal attack. Try again.
Well he has a point, we are still at the stalemate between two sides of government, neither of which listens to anyone but rich people. We are servants at the country club and we vote every 4 years for the new owner
“Second, American politicians don’t care much about voters with moderate incomes. Princeton political scientist Larry Bartels studied the voting behavior of US senators in the early ’90s and discovered that they respond far more to the desires of high-income groups than to anyone else. By itself, that’s not a surprise. He also found that Republicans don’t respond at all to the desires of voters with modest incomes. Maybe that’s not a surprise, either. But this should be: Bartels found that Democratic senators don’t respond to the desires of these voters, either. At all.”
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-labor-union-decline
I concur Shiva.
However I believe it is part of the problem. This country spends far too much time arguing over what to label something, instead of focusing our attention and discourse on the actions performed and the subsequent results.
Using this framework allows one to perceive corruption, cronyism, or unethical behavior for itself – regardless of the name it chooses to hide under.
I have to think our representatives have to be laughing at us. Both partys pretending to be 2 different things with one ultimate goal in mind
I dont think they are laughing at us per se. Nor do I think that its some grand plan. I do think its the result of our cultural perspective that focuses on the short term, the quick decision in reaction to partial information – and the remnant of that old belief that if youre rich its because God has judged you virtuous.
Good intentions mean nothing without actions and results. The people are far too focused on abstract dialogue and ideology and are not perceiving results of actions.
Our Constitution lays out a system for self-rule. Our populace has been absent from that equation lately and their absence left a void filled by corporations. I find myself remembering the last 30 years and the bombardment of the message that corporations are our friends. I never trusted that – but I have known and worked with many people that do. I think thats part of the problem.
Which is why I try to perceive things based on actions and effects. Not labels.
this is a somewhat convoluted response (iphones arent the best for commenting on blogs lol) so please forgive me for any headaches my rambling produced.
[...] last year came back to bite him in the bum just last month and he still hasn’t learned that he isn’t King of Wisconsin. Who will break it to him that in America, we don’t in fact have kings? Oh, let him find that out [...]
This is an excellent post, not just about Walker’s obvious mendacity, but the ignorance by choice mindset of the TeaPublicans. Michele Bachmann is highly educated — she has 2 law degrees — but it matters not one bit. The sheer ignorance, and disregard for verifiable fact, that comes out of her mouth daily is astonishing. Last night, she even compared Walker to Lincoln. Please. I do not recall ever seeing a coterie of such willfully ignorant people achieve places of prominence in American politics. These people make Reagan look like a disciplined, intellectually curious giant of American thought. We live in scary ad bizarre times.
You got an Amen from me on that
So I’m googling around reading about Scott Walker and Koch. I’m following lots of different news, blogs and other sites, as well as clicking through on footnotes. I think I keep seeing some of the same names showing up on various company lists, board of directors, contributors, affilliations, past jobs, etc., in both private sector and government areas. OK so I happen upon the name Simon Sinek.
Who is being paid by our government to teach leadership techniques to the USAF and others: 5/6/2010 – Simon Sinek, a motivational speaker and author of “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action,” discusses pre-flight information with Lt. Col. Gary Spillman, 22nd Maintenance Group vice commander, April 29, 2010, McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. Mr. Sinek joined Airmen from the 22nd Air Refueling Wing on a KC-135 Stratotanker for a refueling mission. Mr. Sinek has spoken at various bases around the world, hoping to enhance the Air Force’s future by teaching Airmen the art of inspiring people. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Andrea Salazar)NOTE KANSAS. Koch Bros home.
Looking at Simons bio….a main affilliation of Sineks is with Richard D. Parsons Esq. remember this name.
Koch is bigger than Microsoft, Merrill Lynch and AT&T
Despite its size and political largesse, Koch is able to dodge the limelight because it is privately-held, meaning that nearly all of its business dealings are known primarily only by the company and the Internal Revenue Service. In fact, it is the second largest private company in the country, trailing only food processing giant Cargill.
Koch also prefers to operate in private when it comes to politics and government.
Although it is both a top campaign contributor and spends millions on direct lobbying, Koch’s chief political influence tool is a web of interconnected, right-wing think tanks and advocacy groups funded by foundations controlled and supported by the two Koch brothers.
Among those groups are some of the country’s most prominent conservative and libertarian voices including the Cato Institute, the Reason Foundation, Citizens for a Sound Economy and the Federalist Society. All regularly beat the drum in official Washington for the causes the Koch’s hold dear—minimal government, deregulation, and free market economics.
For the Kochs, conservative and libertarian views are a family tradition. Fred Koch, who founded the company’s predecessor in 1940, helped establish the ultra right-wing John Birch Society.
Koch’s knack for getting criminal charges dropped and huge potential penalties knocked down.
In late 2000—as the Clinton Administration was preparing to leave office—Koch was hit with a 97-count indictment for covering up the discharge of more than 15 times the legal limit of benzene, a carcinogen. Three months after the Bush administration took office—and just before the lawsuit went to trial—the Justice Department abruptly settled the case.
NOW:
Former Time Warner CEO Richard D. Parsons – BusinessWeekMay 6, 2010 … The former Time Warner CEO reflects on his decision to become chairman of Citigroup during the financial crisis.
President Barack Obama named representatives from business and labor to his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, Richard D. Parsons, chairman of CitiGroup Inc.,
OK now check out Aspen Institute board of directors.
Koch Bros various think tanks
isma.com international security management, http://www.truth-it.net/cfr_trilateral_connection.html
CFR Trilateral Connection
There are many more ………
All of these places have one name in common….KOCH!!! Maybe this is true:
If the Goals of the CFR Trilateral Connection Are Realized, America’s Sovereignty Will Soon be Lost to a Totalitarian New World Government.
Some reminders:
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
“He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.”
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
(-At the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
—All of these quotes are from the mind of Benjamin Franklin
It would be prudent for politicians to remember that some swords cut both ways.
Once again my definition of the GOP rings true, once they gain a little power they turn into GREEDY OPPORTUNISTIC PREDATORS!!!!
This is the same man who, while County Executive, coordinated a disruptive protest against the Kerrys when they spoke in Milwaukee. He was seen handing out bullhorns to thugs who shouted, “flip flop, flip flop” while waving the appropriate footwear, completely drowning out their speeches. Meanwhile, the Bush campaign kept all dissenters from even making a token appearance at Bush campaign stops. Of course, Scooter lived up to his nickname and scooted off before the rally so that he could not be directly tied to the incidents. But we all know he was responsible.
[...] King has a past of doing playing fast and loose with the law. In once such instance, while serving as Milwaukee [...]
Sounds like a typical fratboy College Republican — the kind who used to sit in the studio audience of Limbaugh’s TV show, wave their fists, and go “woof woof woof!” Let me guess — he probably wore one of those stupid fucking fratboy College Republican uniforms (blue blazer, khakis, brown loafers). I remember seeing a whole gaggle of those people walking down frat row in identical uniforms, except for the one guy wearing gray slacks instead of khakis. “You fucking Bolshevik!” I thought.