The quote from Walker's speech that is getting played over and over is, "I am not intimidated by you." That line actually made us laugh. If he was not intimidated, why wouldn't he answer some simple questions about his positions and his record? About 50 of us were there at his soapbox speech at the State Fair — including health care workers who are members of SEIU Healthcare Wisconsin and others who are still fighting for higher wages and the right to stick together in a union through the Home Care Fight for $15. A few of us brought our children to show them how politics works up close and why it is important to stand up for the things that matter.

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So when Scott Walker says he will not be intimidated by a CNA and mother of two from Jefferson, I am not sure what he is trying to prove. If he wasn't intimidated by me, or by my co-workers, or by the rest of us at the soapbox speech in Iowa, he would have answered our questions. Because he ignored us in Des Moines, I want to give him a chance to answer our questions. Here they are, and if he's not intimidated, he should answer them:

■You called the minimum wage "lame," killed the idea of a living wage in our state law and came up short on your promise to create new jobs. Why should anyone trust you to stand up for regular people and good jobs, and not the millionaires and billionaires who are bankrolling your campaign?

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■Why did you compare working people like me to ISIS and Vladimir Putin? How are working people in Wisconsin the enemy?

Add it all up, and you have someone who is less and less popular in his own state because of his record, who has lost his big lead in Iowa in the presidential race and who is too busy running away from his problems to answer simple questions, whether it is about immigration, or raising wages, or anything else. I learned in Iowa that maybe "intimidated" isn't the right word to describe Walker after all. Maybe he's just plain scared.