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Walker is lying because he can - This Post Should Go Viral
TUE MAY 29, 2012 AT 08:20 AM PDT
This Post Should Go Viral
byPvtJarHeadFollow
I simply must share this piece I read over at Uppity Wisconsin by Jud Lounsbury.
http://www.uppitywis.org/blogarticle/another-absurd-lie-walker-has-no-memory-signing-feingold-kohl-re
Essentially, he was working on Feingold's '98 campaign, and while doing so, saw Scott Walker on many occasions. What he saw was Walker making a career out of being a Pro-Life anti partial birth abortion legislator. Around the same time a recall campaign against Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold over the subject failed. Walker now claims he conveniently can't remember signing the petition. It's an obvious lie.
And, because Walker was at these events with Neumann, the issue of partial birth abortion and Feingold's alleged support of it was the focus of Walker's speeches. My specific recollection is that Walker said, on multiple occasions, something in the vein of: We came up a little short with the recall effort, but that effort was not a wasted effort. History will remember it as the first step in Feingold's 1998 defeat.
(snip)
However, now Walker is making the absurd claim that he was not only not a leader of the recall Feingold / Kohl movement, but told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that didn't even sign the petition, claiming that he has "no memory" of signing the recall petitions against Kohl and Feingold and that "I don't believe that I did."
(snip)
Except there is evidence: when First Breath Alliance-- the name of the recall group-- was closing down their shop, they had some cash on hand. To whom do you think they gave that money? Yep: Scott Walker
(snip)
However, now Walker is making the absurd claim that he was not only not a leader of the recall Feingold / Kohl movement, but told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that didn't even sign the petition, claiming that he has "no memory" of signing the recall petitions against Kohl and Feingold and that "I don't believe that I did."
(snip)
Except there is evidence: when First Breath Alliance-- the name of the recall group-- was closing down their shop, they had some cash on hand. To whom do you think they gave that money? Yep: Scott Walker
Walker is lying because he can.
Once again, he is banking on being able to have the best of both worlds: He is so deeply entrenched in the pro-life community that he won't alienate any of them by feigning memory loss about his involvement in the 1997 recall effort with and he doesn't have to worry about the Wisconsin media, which is too stupid to point out the absurdity of a rabidly pro-life Walker distancing himself from the biggest pro-life event in Wisconsin history.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/29/1095396/-This-Post-Should-Go-Viral
