WISCONSIN’S SCOTT WALKER, THE VOODOO PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

You won’t believe the plan that Scott Walker is trying to sell in his presidential campaign.

 

The word is finally out that Mitt Romney is not going for a third try at the presidency.   So it now appears that the GOP governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, is going to try filling that void for those that want an acceptable centrist Republican candidate that they feel might be able to beat Hillary Clinton.

Yes, even though Walker is being investigated for various improprieties in his past elections, he has won three consecutive elections, (one, his own recall election), for the governorship of Wisconsin.  He was also recently considered one of the stars of the recent Iowa Freedom Summit, organized by the highly conservative Iowa Tea Party Representative, Mr. Steve (those illegals with calves-the-size-of-cantaloupes) King.

One must remember that this is the same Governor Walker that is a Fox News regular and the anti-unionist that brought-on his own recall election in a Blue state.   He is also the governor where an imposter, posing as one of the Koch Brothers, called Walker and then recorded Walker, thanking this fake Koch brother for their massive financial campaign support and telling this same false caller about how he was going to go after the local union organizations.

In this latest role of running for the presidency, he refers to both Jeb Bush and  Hillary Clinton as the Washington “insiders” and that what the country needs is a “Breath of fresh ‘out-of-DC-air’ ”, and that’s what he’s offering as himself.

In making his situation very personal, the governor told his audiences about some threats against him he implies were from local Wisconsin union members.  The governor stated, “I think the biggest challenge for us, or for me personally, were all the death threats and the visits to our home,” he said at the Iowa Freedom Summit.  Walker said that his wife, parents and sons were constantly threatened, “Time and time again the protesters were trying to intimidate us. But all they did was remind me how important it was to stand up for the people of my state, and remind me why I ran for governor.”

At the Iowa Freedom Summit, Walker repeated some ideas about going against those unions that he is testing for his future stump speeches.  Per the Des Moines Register, he also tried them out in a 30-minute conference call to key Iowa Republicans.  The governor is not holding anything back and his attitude toward demonizing all unions is a “no-holds-barred” approach.  In addition, he is telling everyone that it is God’s choice for him to run for the presidency. 

Per Walker’s conference call, “One threatened to ‘gut my wife like a deer,” and he said another note said that if his wife didn’t stop him, he’d be “the first Wisconsin governor ever assassinated.”   Then he added, “Part of me looks back and thinks that maybe God put me and my family through all this for a purpose…and it wasn’t just to get things done in Wisconsin, and it wasn’t just to win all those elections in a state that normally doesn’t go Republican. Maybe it was to set us to... help get our country on the right track.”  Bingo!

Walker is playing this to the right-wing Tea Party, the mid-western and Southern evangelists and toward all those Republicans that would be voting in both the primaries and the general election.  No one gets left out.  Plus, he made it clear in his three elections for Wisconsin’s Governor, labor unions were his #1 targets.

So, let’s get an idea as to how this governor is running his state today.

As one local publication put it, “Walker is one of those governors and Republican presidential maybe-contenders whose entire reason for governance can be summed up for America as: ‘We Can't Have Nice Things Anymore’.”

With this in mind, Governor Scott Walker's plan is to cut the University of Wisconsin system by $300 million over the next two years.  This would immediately lead to university teacher layoffs.  (And Walker’s record for new job development in his state is one of the nation’s worst.)  Closing campuses is not on the table at this time, but with a $300 million cut, that would be very hard to avoid.

All of the state’s universities would also be detached from state government and therefore removed from any of the labor rules or laws that regulate them.  (Again, unions are the target.)

This would free up Walker supporters on the Board of Regents to implement their rules for getting rid of any organized unions.  One such law currently provides faculty with tenure, which protects them from dismissal.  Another rule provides for shared governance, which allows professors and students to have a role in how universities are run. However, under the governor’s running of the show, such matters as these rules and laws would be left to Walker's Board of Regents to decide.

But in addition, as is expected for this conservative Republican governor, cutting the budget for the state universities, would just free up the money for building his rich Wisconsin campaign donors a new sports arena

Walker now has the gall to call his plans for Wisconsin a, "common-sense, fiscally conservative approach".  So, Governor Scott Walker has said with the new growth in income tax revenue from the Milwaukee Bucks players, their employees and visiting teams, this will generate enough money to cover debt payments on $220 million in state-issued bonds for a new sports arena.

However, be warned that this new arena had been expected to not cost $220 million, but to cost $400 million to $500 million.  And based on the latest calculations, it appears the new arena would actually cost at least $500+ million.

Per the governor, "There's absolute security for the taxpayers.  No new taxes, no drawing on existing revenues, no exposure to the future..."

I’m not kidding. This is exactly what he’s selling.

According to Walker, the $220 million of new state bonds are expected to pay for themselves.  But nothing has been said about who pays for those costs over $220 million…?

Now, just how is all this supposed to work?

Per walker, there will be great gobs of money that the Milwaukee Bucks players will personally be paying in state income taxes, plus those hotel rooms for the other teams and etc, etc, etc.

It's more like a bogus plan for printing your own money.  This is a bizarre scam about forking over of hundreds of millions of dollars to build an extravagant sports arena for wealthy sporting team owners and donors.  But, Walker says it’s a sure thing that has never, ever gone wrong!  

 

Oh, and I have a wonderful bridge to sell you!

Scott Walker is the same Republican financial brain-whiz whose past predictions on these things has been so spot-on that people can hardly contain their admiration for their man.  And now they just can’t wait for him to work his budgetary, money-making voodoo on all of the rest of America.

So, this is the reason why only the rich will have nice things, and why the rest of Wisconsin’s and now other American citizens, “will not have nice things”.

This is also why Scott Walker will run for president on a platform of doing for the nation what he’s doing for Wisconsin, which is to explain to all the little people that they should not expect to have nice things.  If elected,  he will then set about proving exactly that!  (And let’s not forget what he wants to do to all the unions!)

So, if these are the types of programs that you are looking for, then the Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is obviously your man.

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