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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Feb 22, 2014, 06:31 PM Feb 2014

Scott Walker: Document Dump From Secret Probe Is 'Old News'

Source: TPM

CATHERINE THOMPSON – FEBRUARY 22, 2014, 4:16 PM EST

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) on Saturday brushed off a secret probe into coordination between his gubernatorial campaign and former staff in his county executive's office as "old news."

This week more than 27,000 emails and 434 pages of search warrants related to the ongoing investigation were released to the public. Walker said in an interview with the Washington Post that those documents revealed no material that could damage him politically.

“This is an old news story,” he told the Post. “Many of the ones that have been highlighted of late have actually been in the [Milwaukee] Journal-Sentinel and other places several years ago.”

“The bottom line is I’m probably the most scrutinized public official in America,” he added, citing the 2012 recall election he weathered and another investigation by the Milwaukee County district attorney's office that ended last year.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/scott_walker_docs_old_news

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Scott Walker: Document Dump From Secret Probe Is 'Old News' (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2014 OP
"Everybody already knows Republicons are liars and corrupt. Old news." - Scotty Woker (R-Arrogant) Berlum Feb 2014 #1
Also Release The Hounds Feb 2014 #6
"Old news" is "Centrist" code meaning "please look forward." blkmusclmachine Feb 2014 #2
Walker a tool of the Koch Bros warrant46 Feb 2014 #3
Fuck off, Scott Walker.. we'll decide what's Cha Feb 2014 #4
Of course it's old news to him! blackspade Feb 2014 #5
Will it work? scrutineer Feb 2014 #7
"Why won't you guys talk about what REALLY matters and what's recent... like Monica Lewinsky?!" ck4829 Feb 2014 #8
It's not old news if we haven't heard it before.... AlbertCat Feb 2014 #9
Has "old news" EVER work as a defense? n/t hughee99 Feb 2014 #10
 

blkmusclmachine

(16,149 posts)
2. "Old news" is "Centrist" code meaning "please look forward."
Sat Feb 22, 2014, 07:51 PM
Feb 2014
It's when you know they've been caught doing something something...

warrant46

(2,205 posts)
3. Walker a tool of the Koch Bros
Sat Feb 22, 2014, 08:43 PM
Feb 2014

WASHINGTON -- One of the most famous episodes of the 2011 labor battles in Wisconsin was when Gov. Scott Walker (R) took what he thought was a phone call from conservative billionaire David Koch. He later found out that it was actually a prank call from a journalist. In his new book "Unintimidated," Walker says the incident showed him that God was speaking to him.

The call, from Ian Murphy, editor of the Buffalo Beast, an alternative publication in Buffalo, N.Y., occurred on Feb. 22, 2011. Murphy, posing as Koch, asked Walker if he would be "planting some troublemakers" in the peaceful crowds that were protesting his anti-union legislation in Madison.

Walker replied that his office had "thought about that," in a comment that the Madison police chief later called "very unsettling and troubling."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/11/scott-walker-book_n_4254943.html

scrutineer

(1,156 posts)
7. Will it work?
Sun Feb 23, 2014, 06:08 AM
Feb 2014

The same people who, for the 2016 presidential campaign, plan to go through Hillary's sock drawer yet again (including the regurgitation of Bill and Monica, cattle futures, and all matters which, if I recall correctly, got a tad of media scrutiny back in the day), and STILL won't let the Bengaaaaaaaazi nontroversy go, will play the game "oh sweet Jesus this is old news why can't liberals look forward like we Republicans" bullshit game.

As we know the national media will probably go along with this tactic. Will local Wisconsin media?

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