Meet the Former Bike Executive Who Could Crush Scott Walker's White House Dreams

[VanishingPoi]

I hope this lady wins in Wisconsin!

This March, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker launched what, in the post-Citizens United era, amounts to a de facto presidential exploratory campaign. He jetted to Las Vegas for a private audience with Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul and Republican Party kingmaker who is said to have spent nearly $150 million during the 2012 elections and may dump as much as $100 million more into this year's midterms. It was a pinch-me moment for Walker, who in four short years had ascended from county executive to conservative hero. Inspired by his boyhood idol, Ronald Reagan, Walker took on Wisconsin's public-employee unions and refused to buckle in the face of massive protests and a weeks-long occupation of the state Capitol. When the unions subsequently tried to oust him via a recall election, he barnstormed the state, raised a record $37 million, and won with 53 percent of the vote. Soon the preacher's son and college dropout began appearing alongside Chris Christie and Jeb Bush on 2016 short lists.

But these days, Walker's presidential dreams are hanging by a thread as he battles for reelection against a political neophyte whose only previous electoral campaign was a self-financed 2012 run for the local school board. Why is he vulnerable? Walker devoted his first term to ramming through a chunk of the modern conservative agenda: He limited collective-bargaining rights, slashed taxes on the wealthy, enacted new voter ID requirements, boosted funding for vouchers at the expense of public schools, curtailed abortion access, and weakened environmental protections. These policies have sharply polarized Wisconsin—splitting families, church groups, golf foursomes—with only a sliver of the electorate not firmly pro- or anti-Walker.

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[bobabode]

Scott Walker is a sleazy weasel who need to find a real job.
Maybe he can work his way up to asst. dogcatcher?

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Scott Walker is a sleazy weasel who need to find a real job.
Maybe he can work his way up to asst. dogcatcher?

You are being kind Bob. Walker can enter a locked room walking upright under the door.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by merrylander

You are being kind Bob. Walker can enter a locked room walking upright under the door.

You're right Rob. My apologies to all weasels.

[merrylander]

I know of a man who was killed by a weasel - he was standing in the middle of the railroad tracks and he did not hear it.

[JJIII]

Originally Posted by merrylander

I know of a man who was killed by a weasel - he was standing in the middle of the railroad tracks and he did not hear it.

"The weasel, she did not blow!"