Posted on 03/12/2015 12:37:30 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
MADISON (WKOW) - Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wisconsin) met with African-American community leaders from Madison Wednesday and spoke with the mother of Tony Robinson, the unarmed 19 year-old man who was shot and killed by a Madison police officer last Friday night.
Boys and Girls Club of Dane County CEO Michael Johnson reached out to Gov. Walker on Monday asking for a meeting. He wanted to not only discuss what happened to Tony Robinson, but about helping Wisconsin's African-American population going forward.
Meeting for breakfast at the governor's mansion Wednesday morning, both Johnson and one of his top officers said they felt an immediate connection with Walker.
"The Governor has a 19 year-old, just like I have a 19 year-old and it was really just about trying to bring home the humanity plea about - this is really a tragedy," said Nichelle Nichols, chief academic officer for the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County.
Johnson said he made a point to ask Gov. Walker if he would call Andrea Irwin, the mother of Tony Robinson.
"The Governor immediately asked if he could get her number and call her right away," said Johnson.
Laurel Patrick, a spokesperson for the Governor told 27 News Walker spoke with Irwin Wednesday afternoon to express his condolences.
"Governor Walker feels great empathy for the Robinson family at losing their son and shared his and Mrs. Walker's condolences for them and for all involved," reads a statement put out by Patrick.
But Johnson and Nichols also talked with the Governor about ways the state can help the African-American community.
"I would like to see some African-American leaders work with him to create a statewide job initiative for African-American men," said Johnson.
They also pitched a statewide summer internship program for disadvantaged youths and a program to help mothers raising African-American sons.
"I felt like he was sincere," said Johnson. "He wanted to follow-up. I think he listened."
So it was a good meeting.
Those organizing the action told ThinkProgress that Wisconsin’s legal assault on workers and physical assault on its residents of color are two sides of the same coin...."
The title should be: Union Bosses and Race-baiters Join Forces Against the People of Wisconsin
When you succeed in confronting entrenched liberal interest groups and make steady progress shrinking Big Government - the economy killing machine that is powered and fed by an angry, violent liberal bastion of characters - including the union-dues and control cabal, and the UW political stronghold (and their environment scam) - business blooms, the economy recovers, jobs appear and people prosper.
Waste . Of . Time
Hardly.
Pandering
How so?
There is a time for everything under the Sun. It is time to pop the education bubble, get rid of useless departments and useless courses. It is time to teach the students about fiscal responsibility.
The result will be a more effective, responsive, and efficient institution of learning for the people of Wisconsin.
Such action now will energize Wisconsin for generations to come.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
It`s almost like what we`re seeing (Monday) is the moment Wisconsin becomes a Republican state,” UW-Milwaukee Professor Mordecai Lee said..." -- More
Put me in the same column as Shimmer1 and Westbrook for this being a pandering waste of time. You differed with both of them, apparently harboring some semblance of hope that the conversation would be any different than the one that’s been held since 1965. I think it’s you that needs to answer the “How so?” question.
Any “jobs for young black males” conversation that doesn’t have a moral component to it is futile. Children by multiple baby mamas that do not know their father has built a mountain of poverty the rest of us support with taxes yet Johnson and Nichols expect Gov. Walker to reach into his non-existent “stash” to create a program.
I say he’s pandering because he’s even meeting with this criminal’s mother, youth leaders, when they are defending the thug!
Scott Walker was asked by a youth leader to meet and talk about this - it was important for Governor Walker to listen and do exactly what he did.
No one was out in the street with a bull horn; it was a polite, private meeting, not a politically calculated circus.
It’s not pandering, it smart...
If he didn’t meet, the left would accuse him of not caring, that “black lives” don’t matter...
He meet, hopefully something good comes out of it...
If anything, he’s not given the moonbats left and race baiters ammo ...
Think what you wish.
Scott Walker is the governor of Wisconsin and he is treating this seriously - I imagine everyone in Wisconsin is concerned about this, especially since it is so obvious that the Democrats have politicized race to incite riots.
How a waste of time? They asked him to meet, he met and they got a good feeling for him and he got out w/o having to make any stupid promises. He handled it exactly right.
What crap.
You have a nutball felonious thug who assaults a cop and we are supposed to empathize with his aggrieved family?
Not a chance.
So, you’d prefer that the governor just butt out and let this escalate like the race-baiters want?
Walker is meeting with a youth leader not with Al Sharpton.
Capiche?
Well said!
So that's what they're calling them now?
Just a few years from becoming a community organizer, and then a full-fledged race-baiter?
Capiche...lol.
You have to work on your public school spelling skills.
I believe you meant capitulate.
Show me how your comment relates to the meeting the Boys’ and Girls’ Club leader asked to have (held in private) with Gov Scott Walker.
Too much civility and peace for your liking?
?
when will we see a white leader tell the black “community” to get lost, forever.
Pandering. Why are so called conservatives afraid to admit truth that is as simple as 2 = 2 = 4.
First rand Paul, now Walker.
Basically, the Country’s men have all rolled over. The accusation of Racism has terrified most everyone except a very tiny percentage.
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