We are building on our momentum. :-)
Posted on 10/30/2013 6:29:39 PM PDT by Maelstorm
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is headed to Virginia to campaign for Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli in the waning days of the campaign.
Walker's campaign spokesman Jonathan Wetzel said Wednesday he is scheduled to be with Cuccinelli on Saturday, just three days before the election. Cuccinelli faces Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the hotly contested race.
Most polls have showed McAuliffe with a comfortable lead over Cuccinelli.
Walker is popular among conservatives after he became the first governor in U.S. history to survive a recall election. The recall last year was spurred by anger over his 2011 proposal that effectively ended collective bargaining for public workers.
Walker is releasing a book next month about that union fight and recall, fueling speculation that he will run for president in 2016.
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BTTT!
Scott Walker spreads his magic to Virginia.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
What is it with politicians - save Ted Cruz, that they must obey the big corporations, no matter what, to give them a constant source of slave labor (unions, "new members"; union teachers, more "students to teach," etc)?
I hope he’s not too late. Thank you Scott!
Walker’s words were twisted a little.
Actually, if the border were secured totally, a wall, there might be other pols one could say are supporting “amnesty”.
Also:
But Walker’s actual comments - made in a webcast with Politico in D.C. - were ambiguous on what has been the most contentious question in the broad immigration debate: the status of millions of people living in the U.S. illegally. Walker never mentioned citizenship in his comments.
And he told the Journal Sentinel in an interview Sunday he hasn’t taken a position on citizenship for illegal immigrants.
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While Walker talked about a “legal pathway,” he said nothing about “citizenship.” (Some Republicans support a pathway to legal status for undocumented immigrants but not citizenship.)
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“For the undocumented 12 million that are already here, have you said that you’d support finding a way for them to become citizens?” the governor was asked.
“I haven’t gone into the details of that. What I said in that (Politico) interview and I’ve said in others is we’ve got to balance that, and find a way to fix - my focus is less on a way of dealing with those here - that doesn’t mean it’s not a part of it - but my focus has been on, first and foremost, we’ve got to fix what I think is a broken immigration system just for those that are seeking legal passage.”
Walker was asked: “But you haven’t taken a position on whether the people that are already here should have a conditional pathway to citizenship?”
His answer:
“No. Again I think long term that’s going to be a part of it but I think there are too many people here in Washington who are leapfrogging over everything else and trying to get to that right away. We fundamentally don’t have a system . . . to legitimately deal with people who want to come - in fact, I think you would greatly reduce if not outright eliminate the number of people who come in illegally if we had an effective, time-effective particularly, system of dealing with legal immigration.”
Read more from Journal Sentinel: http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/scott-walker-clarifies-his-stance-in-illegal-immigration-debate-lm8vluj-194096481.html#ixzz2jGOVgaKo
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KC better off w Cruz...Palin. Walker is Amnesty Liberal....and you can’t be for small govt and Illegal Alien Amnesty. Walker also got us Denice Priebus
Hopefully KC wins...just don’t like the RINOs now tagging along
If you do not deport Illegals it is Amnesty.....Walker supports Amnesty
“Sen. Ted Cruz introduced an amendment to the current immigration bill back in May that would have removed the path to citizenship from the bill completely. But it also supported the same temporary legal status (RPI status) that is already in the bill that Sen. Marco Rubio has been discussing. And even more than that, it also supported permanent legal residency status as well. “
So according to you, Ted Cruz supports amnesty too?
“And even more than that, it also supported permanent legal residency status as well.”
I get it, you call Ted Cruz a RINO too. Great with the name-calling.
“Secured Borders”
“- The purpose of Senator Cruz’s amendment may have been designed to bring illegal aliens ‘out of the shadows’ while making it clear that those who were granted temporary residency status would only be eligible for permanent residency status, but not citizenship, once certain criteria relating to border security and interior enforcement were satisfied.”
It is dishonest when the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel pointed out that Walker in no place says “Citizenship”, so there is not a dime’s worth of difference here.
“Walker never mentioned citizenship in his comments.”
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