Scott Walker: I don’t have time for Black Lives Matter — let’s talk about ‘things that matter’
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Scott Walker: I dont have time for Black Lives Matter lets talk about things that matter
Tom Boggioni
21 Aug 2015 at 11:58 ET
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) on March 1, 2015. (Fox News)
Campaigning in New Hampshire, ........................
Im going to meet with voters. I mean, Ive said, its not just who knows who that is? the flustered Walker replied before comparing the grassroots civil rights organization to the Tea Party...............
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During a recent appearance at the Iowa State Fair, Walker ignored questions and comments from Black Lives Matter protesters who were bussed in for his political event.
According to Wisconsin constituent and BLM activist Ciara Fox of Milwaukee, Walker refused to take even one question from a black member of the audience.
While speaking in Iowa, Walker used his unwillingness to meet with concerned but opposing groups as a badge of courage.
You want someone whos tested? Im right here. You can see it. This is what happened in Wisconsin. We will not back down! he told the crowd.
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I really think the man has gone off his rocker
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Scott Walker: I dont have time for #BlackLivesMatter lets talk about things that matter http://ow.ly/Rcux4
totodeinhere
(13,058 posts)If Walker can get this word out look for his support in the party to increase.
riversedge
(70,242 posts)hay rick
(7,624 posts)The racist race to the bottom continues.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)But I would expect nothing better from that racist turd.
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)Everything you need to know about America's racist, nutty right wing.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]It'll be fun to watch this ignorant jackass try, though.
totodeinhere
(13,058 posts)He is just saying what Republican voters want to hear.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]His handlers might push him towards some kind of tempering statement, like "I didn't mean that the way it sounded," just to avoid a total PR meltdown.
I hope he tries, because when reTHUGs try to dig themselves out, they just end up dug in deeper, which I find highly entertaining.
Then again, you could be right. We'll just have to wait and see.
trillion
(1,859 posts)showing he may be able to compete with trump.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]They're all scum, anyway, and I just want to see every one them out of positions of power.
That's why it's so critical for all of us to do whatever we can to make sure liberal Democrats win big next year!
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)and then grew louder and coalesced into a far greater movement.
A recruiting moment if I ever saw one.
#BlackLivesMatter grows stronger, due to idiots who think otherwise.
On Edit; cleared an ungraceful phrase.
riversedge
(70,242 posts)I think these figures are within the ballpark. Walker is getting frustrated and testy. But he has LOTS of money in his war chest. I do not count him out by a long shot.
Not backing down retweeted
EcoInternet ?@EcoInternet Aug 17
Scott #Walker support in Presidential polls has plummeted by 2/3 from 15% to 5% as witness fall of American demagogue
totodeinhere
(13,058 posts)n/t
riversedge
(70,242 posts)Jim Witkins ?@jimwitkins 3m3 minutes ago
Divider @ScottWalker intimidated by #BlackLivesMatter. http://owl.li/RcLxT #uniteblue #wiunion
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/21/1414229/-Walker-Black-Lives-Matter-meeting-would-be-ridiculous-not-part-of-things-that-matter
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Walker: Black Lives Matter meeting would be 'ridiculous', not part of 'things that matter'
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Republican presidential candidate and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker speaks at a Harley Davidson motorcycle dealership in Las Vegas, Nevada July 14, 2015. Walker jumped into the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination on Monday, needing to p
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Presidential candidate and first American politician to be semi-successfully grown in a petri dish Scott Walker does not want to meet with Black Lives Matter activists, or talk about it, or acknowledge them, and you can't make him so shut up.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts). . . but we don't have time for assholes like you or Dave and Charlie Koch.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)And then snickering over how clever it was.
corkhead
(6,119 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)hahahahaha!
As if there was a chance before.
NCcoast
(480 posts)Time and time again he couches those who oppose him as if they were an enemy force. Of all the clowns in the GOP clown car this one scares me the most. He would the most dishonest and divisive president anyone could imagine.
CatholicEdHead
(9,740 posts)Who happens to go against the GOP marketed narrative. Rich, White, Male, Protestant, ultra-conservatives 100% with the platform only need apply. You need to follow the narrative or shut up and sit down.
NYCButterfinger
(755 posts)They are some swing black voters in Ohio, Florida, New York, etc. who don't want to hear about police brutality because to some, it doesn't affect them. Walker is tone deaf anyway.
Qutzupalotl
(14,317 posts)totodeinhere
(13,058 posts)him on all of the cable news networks.
riversedge
(70,242 posts)Raw Story
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Scott Walker: I dont have time for #BlackLivesMatter lets talk about things that matter http://ow.ly/Rcux4
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utliberal ?@utliberal 5h5 hours ago Salt Lake City, UT
@RawStory @chaplinlives Or simply put, black lives don't matter to Scott Walker.
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Not backing down ?@Pie_SocialMedia 6h6 hours ago
.@RawStory #walker16 has shown himself to be #unpresidential & #outoftouch. He's always been a #divider #walkernotfit http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/3-questions-african-americans-should-ask-scott-walker-n391491
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Br?ndon Ub??d ☪ ?@PissOnBitchez 7h7 hours ago
@RawStory Well, you're not getting my vote.
tellthetruth ?@truthtotweet 2h2 hours ago
@PissOnBitchez @rodeodance Wow Walker says that, Trump and Carson dismissed them outright too - yet not a peep from BLM about this.
Joel Thompson ?@yeahjoel 7h7 hours ago
.@RawStory @ChrisVermilion How incredibly myopic and narrow-minded.
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Chris Vermilion ?@ChrisVermilion 7h7 hours ago
@yeahjoel @RawStory Yep. Not to mention tone-deaf.
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Joel Thompson ?@yeahjoel 7h7 hours ago
@ChrisVermilion @RawStory No doubt. why not be authentic & say "I don't have all the answers but yes we need to have a conversation."
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Randy Winslow ?@pucktothehead 3h3 hours ago Waterloo, Ontario
@yeahjoel @ChrisVermilion @RawStory I think he was being authentic. That's the problem.
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Dwayne Wayne III ?@_92Infinity 49m49 minutes ago Bowie, MD
@RawStory Fuck him
David R. Watson ?@DavidRWatson2 2h2 hours ago
@RawStory @StinaLeicht So black lives don't matter to Mr. Walker? Why am I unsurprised?
Constance Jackson ?@ConstanceJackso 3h3 hours ago Dallas, TX
@RawStory We Don't Have Time 4U, WEASEL. I Certainly Hope This Utterance From WEASEL, Is His SwanSong. He Just Said BLACK LIVES DON'T MATTER
Randy Winslow ?@pucktothehead 3h3 hours ago Waterloo, Ontario
@RawStory just when u think it can't get any worse for the Republican party........
and on and on...
alterfurz
(2,474 posts)1. His political ambitions
2. His dark money donors/masters
3. Destruction of government's ability to promote the common good
4. Payback for those on his "enemies list"
ericson00
(2,707 posts)and making their lives very hard in 2016
WhiteHat
(129 posts)Maybe I don't get out much, but it seems like kind of a big deal to me.
Simeon Salus
(1,144 posts)"If you're an obscenely wealthy pair of lunatic John Birchers that live three states away, I'll take your phone calls and your explicit directions. Live in the town where I played bass drum in the high school band or in the state that pays my pittance of a salary, screw off!"
Extrapolated quote only...
Salviati
(6,008 posts)brush
(53,791 posts)should he get the repug nomination.
By saying: "I dont have time for Black Lives Matter lets talk about things that matter" he's saying black lives don't matter to him.
Listen up operatives from the Hillary, Sanders and O'Malley campaigns, file this away your 'to be used later' opposition research file.
potone
(1,701 posts)"Things that matter" apparently doesn't include people getting killed by the police. But then, why would it? Everything he has done since he became Governor shows that no one's life, unless that person is wealthy, matters to him. On the up side, this should sink one more nail in the coffin of his ambitions. News to Walker: black people do vote!
trillion
(1,859 posts)racist. He can also throw in Sexism and start being crude. They'll consider it "refreshing"
drynberg
(1,648 posts)Don't forget to defend and back up BLM and of course Bernie.