Posted on 02/10/2015 1:57:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Des Moines, Iowa – Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is opening the first Iowa office among the potential 2016 Republican contenders for the presidency.
Walker, who has led all other GOP presidential aspirants in recent polls, leased the space at 2775 86th St. in Urbandale, the Des Moines Register reports. The office building has a lengthy political history with Republican candidates – although Walker hasn’t officially tossed his hat in the ring for the 2016 election.
Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses are tentatively expected to be held on Feb. 1, 2016 and are crucially important for presidential campaigns looking to establish a national presence.
The strip-mall location leased out by Walker is the first space to be established in Iowa by any potential candidate and has links to past GOP campaigns including Michelle Bachmann’s 2012 team, Mitt Romney’s general election crew and John McCain, Sarah Palin’s Midwest regional campaign headquarters in 2008, according to the Register.
Politico reports that Walker has compiled an email list of 300,000 small donors from 50 states....
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I could live with that. better than Jeb. Prefer Cruz though.
Walker has a lot to lose.
If, as a neighboring midwestern governor who was born in Iowa, he does not win the Iowa caucuses in a landslide, he will have a very difficult time remaining a viable candidate.
I see what you did there...
And the fact that Governor Walker DOES have a lot to lose, is all the more reason to attempt to build momentum early on.
Now I kind of like Scott Walker, and have contributed to his various campaigns (and I continue to do so), so I already have a bias toward his future successes.
He is pictured by some factions in Wisconsin as some sort of antediluvian cave man, with no culture, no appreciation for the “finer” things in life, and no vision for the future. These people have thrown everything they had at Scott Walker, and he still shouldered it off.
As far as being born in Iowa, that little factoid did not help Michelle Bachmann so much in the last primary. Scott Walker was born in Colorado Springs Colorado, so make of that what you will. Walker did spend his early years in Iowa, but his family had moved to the southeastern part of Wisconsin by the time he was about ten.
As usual Scott Walker breaks ground and stands out from the crowd. “Action” is his middle name.
Walker bump.
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