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This is the 2nd horrible decision from Scott Walker last Friday after earlier announcing that he was not going to approve a new Kenosha casino for the Menomonee Indian Tribe. While the Menomonee proposal carried the potential for future legal battles with the Potawatomi Tribe's Milwaukee-based casino due to an awful and corrupt gaming compact negotiated by former Demoncrat Gov. Jim Doyle, many Wisconsin critics viewed the timing of Walker's denial just prior to this past weekend's Iowa Freedom Summit as presidential politics bowing to Iowa anti-gambling zealots.

I really like Scott Walker. He is a personal friend. But he really pooched things on Friday.

I would have preferred that Walker had either approved the Kenosha casino or delayed his denial so that Bob Vander Plaats and other religious/political extremists couldn't use Walker's decision as a show of strength for Iowa 2016. It now paints Gov. Scott Walker - the man who stood up to and beat back powerful labor unions - as a man who is afraid to stand up to both Iowa zealots AND the corrupt Potawatomi Tribe.

While many members of Walker's Wisconsin base are disappointed or even upset at Walker's Kenosha casino decision AND its timing, there will be ABSOLUTE HELL to pay if Gov. Walker includes a "Jock Tax" in his state budget next week. This move only serves the interests of liberal downtown Milwaukee Democrats and the uber-liberal NY-based billionaire owners of the Milwaukee Bucks.

Any "Jock Tax" will immediately divert those tax monies away from their current use in the general fund. That diversion will require Walker to either cut spending or increase other taxes. Further, the concept of using state funds to subsidize NBA millionaires and billionaires is horrifying to most conservatives.

Acquiescing to the NBA's contractually mandated threat to move the Bucks if a new arena is not built further runs contrary to Scott Walker's image as a strong leader. I am astonished that Walker would kowtow to the NBA's blackmail and include it in his biennial budget.

Scott Walker is getting and listening to some really advice. And if this advice is coming because Walker is running for President in 2016, he better remember that he needs to do better in his day job as Governor of Wisconsin.