SCOTT WALKER ASSUMES THE “FLIP-FLOPPER” TROPHY FROM MITT ROMNEY!

…Mr. “Bait & Switch” himself, Governor Scott Walker

Trying to confirm just where Scott Walker stands is a full time job.

Virtually every declared Republican 2016 candidate has given us their position on the on-going Confederate Flag brouhaha in South Carolina. 

But Scott Walker, the Republican Wisconsin Governor had been dodging the questions and avoiding giving his opinion. 

 

Then came the weekend when the South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said she thought it was time to retire the flag to the historical museum.  Walker’s staff quickly reported that he had wanted the flag to come down all along.  But they said, Walker had thought he should let Governor Haley say so first.....Right!  

Did he ever say that before, when he was asked multiple times?  No, that idea seems to have come out of nowhere as an afterthought.

Now, as has been reported, this Wisconsin Governor has cut $300 million out of University of Wisconsin’s 2 year budget.  And what's happening to that $300 million budget cut?  Walker says he will use the budget money for a new state-of-the-art Milwaukee Bucs Stadium.  Yes, Wisconsin's tax dollars hard at work.

 

Walkerdid all of this instead of approving a short-term tax increase for covering the costs for urgent state bridge and road repairs.  Walker is now planning on borrowing this needed money.  This way, it lets him say that he didn’t have to raise taxes, even though there’s no plan for how to pay back the state's borrowed money. 

 

It’s Walker’s way of saying. “I’m running for president. I’ll just leave that little detail to the next Governor of Wisconsin.”

Walker has also been found to have told some little white-lies back in his 2014 re-election about his position on abortion.  But those lies are now coming back to haunt him.

The anti-abortion Republicans have resurrected an ad Walker ran last October, when he was running way behind in the local women’s polls.  In the ad he said abortion was an “agonizing” decision, insisting his goal was to “increase safety and to provide more information for a woman considering her options”.  He then claimed that his legislative agenda “leaves the final decision to a woman and her doctor.” Walker also refused during his re-election campaign to say whether he supported the 20-week abortion ban.

After out-of-state conservatives unearthed the abortion ad and began using it against Walker, like magic he immediately became the staunch supporter of the 20-week abortion ban, promising to sign the bill.  In fact, it has now come out that Walker himself asked legislators to send him the abortion ban bill ASAP.  In addition, he asked to make sure that it contained no exceptions for rape or incest.

Walker went even further by making light of concerns about women who become pregnant during a rape. “I think for most people who are concerned about that, it’s in the initial months when they are most concerned about it,” he told reporters, presumably speaking from his vast reservoir of personal experience in counseling raped women.

Just more proof that Walker has no clear values or scruples and will go whichever way the political right-wing wind blows.

 Even his own state Republicans are upset with the governor.  Wisconsin Republicans are very upset with Walker’s plans to solve his budget mess by carving that $300 million out of the university system’s budget. “The university doesn’t deserve this cut,” GOP state Senator Luther Olsen complained. “We are fools if we go around bashing one of the best things in the state of Wisconsin.”

Yes, Senator Olsen is correct. The UofW has been rated as being one of the top five American State University’s for decades.  It would be a shame to have these kind of cuts, as this kind of major financial cut would mean they would loose some of the best university professors in the country. Professors who could find an even better paying job anywhere in the US.

At this point, Walker doesn’t give a damn about Wisconsin.  All he cares about are his latest poll ratings and debate results in the up-coming Republican nomination debates.

Walker’s focus right now is in his ability to raise campaign money, and his current status as leader-of-the-pack in neighboring Iowa, the first caucus state.

But hopefully, the news of his Wisconsin in-state troubles are crossing the border into Iowa as they are located right next door.

Yes, something has been going amiss in Walker’s campaign as he has had to push out his official campaign announcement to July.  He says this was done for waiting until he has signed the Wisconsin state budget.

However, there’s no budget deal currently on the table, mainly because of the dissent among his own state’s Republicans. It’s likely to take until mid-July or later for reaching any budget accord with his own states party.

For the last few years, Walker has tried to sell himself as a leader who makes tough choices. He recently tried to build up his image by writing about his rivals: “Some want you to think they fight, but Senate speeches aren’t fighting or winning.”

But for Walker, lying and reacting to the right-wing political weathervane isn't exactly the best approach for being seen as your party’s potential election “winner”.

Copyright G.Ater 2016