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"Even though Ive had some extensive experience with Scott Walker, having to deal with his prevarications and obfuscations for the past ten years, there are times where Ill hear or see something that will stop me in my tracks and just gape in amazement of how much he tries to warp things to fit into his own skewed sense of reality."
This report by Kay Nolan, reporting for WisPolitics.com, provided me with one of these rare occasions:
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Asked when Chisholm first made the no-comment request, Walker said, I dont have the date, I didnt write it down on a piece of paper. Asked if it happened last year, Walker answered, Yes, but quickly added that further comment would violate what he asked me to do.
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Walkers appearance was the first since media reports on his financial disclosure statement showed he owed at least $55,000 in defense attorney fees as of the end of 2011. Walker announced in February that he had hired attorneys.
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On January 5, 2012, upon the heels of the arrest and charging of one of his top aides and closest friends, Tim Russell, and two others, Brian Pierick and Kevin Kavanaugh (who was another one of Walkers political appointees), Walker said that he was extremely disappointed over the charges. But he didnt stop there. He also denied having had any contact with the DAs office, except when he sent his then Chief of Staff to see the DA to initiate the investigation:
http://news.firedoglake.com/2012/04/20/29450/
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)and that is why it's important that Dems also win the recall for LT. Governor.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)before a jury.
Worried senior
(1,328 posts)out of office and he goes to jail, she'll be governor. She and her husband are both terrible, more born again idiots.