Keep your eye on the man behind the curtain
Call The Pope - it's a miracle. Media has finally
caught up with what I've been saying about Scott Walker.
When White House hopeful Scott Walker talks to potential voters, he hawks himself as a leader who tells people what he will do and then does it.
But the line has a snag. As a candidate for governor, Walker didn't spell out or even mention some of the measures that would become key achievements in office.
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Finally! I've pointed this out every time Walkers actions conflict with what he's said or campaigned on. And now, after media spent such a vital role in endorsing him, stenographing Walkers talking points and beating up on his opposition, ensuring he "won 3 elections in 4 years", they've finally noticed that he doesn't do what he says he's going to do.
His 2010 promise to be "lazer focused on creating 250,000 jobs" was literally the only thing he promised. All his ads, campaign speeches featured that promise exclusively.
What did he do? He took away collective bargaining rights from every public employee in the state (except those unions that endorsed him), defunded Planned Parenthood, mandated women wanting to terminate a pregnancy have an invasive and unnecessary ultrasound (making services even more expensive), forced women wanting medication induced pregnancy termination to have an unnecessary doctors office visit for each dose of medication rather than use the already safe video conference, impoverished cities by slashing state shared revenue and prohibiting them from raising taxes to maintain service levels, took nearly $2 billion from our public schools, threw 80,000 Wisconsinites off Medicaid by reducing eligibility from 130% of poverty level to 100%, rammed through voter suppression measures and secretly drawn gerrymandering the entire state to ensure 1 Party Rule into eternity, and so much more - all bad things.
Some "lazer focus on jobs", huh?
Even back then, Wisconsin media didn't notice that the things Walker was doing had no effect of jobs. They just kept on 'splaining away how Walker was working on his promise. Any day now those jobs will just magically appear and we will be saved! And they 'splained away our diminishing wages and economy. Any day, now, Walker will save us. Right??? Right??????
Ditto his 2014 campaign where he called abortion restrictions and Right to Work Mooch Laws something that didn't interest him. Well, toss that right under the bus as soon as the campaign is over. He's NOW all too pleased to sign both of them the minute Republicans finish ramming the bills through the Legislature they rule with an iron fist.
Walker also repeated that he was ONLY interested in being Governor during his 2014 campaign. He had no interest in running for President. His promises were dutifully recorded and reported to the peons. Words straight from his mouth. Of COURSE they were true.
His victory speech on election night was a virtual announcement of a Presidential bid. Hiring Presidential campaign advisors and an Iowa strategist followed shortly. His State of the State speech was a Presidential level campaign speech. And he's been visiting the entire country kissing the rings of donors and pandering to his Tea Party base.
Governing? How important is that when there's a Presidential election in 2016? And Walkers ENTIRE political history is the use of each elected office to launch his bid (at taxpayer expense, of course) to his next higher elected office.
Well, the media has finally noticed that Walker hides or lies about his real agenda and plans.
During his 2014 race to secure a second term, Walker didn't campaign on some of the most sweeping changes in his current budget proposal: freezing a stewardship program for state lands; borrowing $1.3 billion for transportation; and cutting state universities by $300 million in exchange for unhooking them from many state laws.
"What does a campaign mean when almost none of the major policy departures contained in the budget were proposed or debated during the yearlong exchange of policy ideas by Democrat Mary Burke and Republican Scott Walker?" business executive and former Milwaukee Sentinel business editor John Torinus of West Bend wrote on his blog last week.
"This is government by surprise. Even legislative leaders appear to have been caught off guard. Governor Walker's style of governance — throwing out broad-brush policy shifts without a lot of input beforehand — is especially relevant as he runs for president of the United States," said Torinus, who has donated to the campaigns of Republicans like Walker and Democrats like former Gov. Jim Doyle.
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Yet, Walker is still at it; telling anyone who asks that he's a bold leader who says what he's going to do and then does it. History tells us quite the opposite.
He's a man who lies, hides, and misleads. He repeatedly gets away with it because he's never held accountable. Let's hope that this information gets out to voters in the nation because Scott Walker is the most dangerous career-politician running for President.
Yes, he IS running for President despite what he says.
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