Iowa State Fair
Highland Park Soad Fountain, Dallas
Posted on 09/02/2015 1:10:14 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
HIGHLAND PARK — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker brought his mild manner, shy smile and promise to “wreak havoc on Washington” if elected president to a century-old soda fountain in the North Texas enclave of Highland Park Wednesday, opening a three-day swing through Texas.
“One of the things I heard inside there and I hear from other people across the country is that Americans are looking for someone to shake things up,” Walker said, speaking before a throng of reporters after spending more than an hour working his way through the crowd of folks gathered at the Highland Park Soda Fountain. “They want someone to wreak some havoc on Washington.”
“I think that people have seen that I’ve been able to wreak some havoc in our state Capitol on the big government special interests,” Walker said. “We even took on a lot of the Washington base that tried to take us out first in terms of protests when we pushed big, bold reforms, and then they tried to take me out in a recall, and it took people from here and all across the country to hep us defeat that recall.”
“We will not be intimidated by anyone, whether it’s big labor union bosses, whether it be from the other party or whether it occasionally even be members of our own party,” Walker said. “We’re going to shake things up in Washington. We’re going to wreak some havoc and put the American people back in charge.”
Walker will be doing a similar event at Bill Miller BBQ on Broadway in San Antonio at 4:15 p.m., and Friday morning at Lori’s Cafe in Midland.
In between, the governor will be holding a series of private meetings in Texas. His staff didn’t specify with whom, but presumably they included past and potential future donors. Early on, Walker was seen as a prospective front-runner, acceptable to both the party’s establishment and more ideologically conservative wings. But as the field crowded up, and especially with the big-footed presence of New York real estate mogul Donald Trump, Walker’s fortunes have waned.
Texas, with its huge bounty of delegates and early March 1 spot on the primary calendar right after the Iowa and Nevada caucuses and New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries, could play an important role in determining the Republican nominee.
But Walker’s potential to rebound and be a player in Texas depends on his performance in the February caucuses in his neighboring state of Iowa, where, according to recent polls, he now places fourth — well behind Trump and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, and just behind Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who will doing a three-stop campaign swing through Texas Thursday that begins in Fort Worth, takes him to Tyler and ends in Kingwood.
Walker’s calling card remains that he would prove a broadly acceptable nominee, and that his electoral success in Wisconsin — where he won election in 2010, re-election in 2014 and a recall election in-between — suggests he would prove a formidable general election candidate.
“Texas is a red state. People like red state governance. The difference is I governed like a red state governor and I live in a blue state, so if you want someone to take on the mess in Washington, which is in many ways like what I inherited in Wisconsin, you need a governor who’s actually been tested under the most difficult of circumstances,” Walker said.
“You really want to wreak havoc,” Walker said, “you actually need to have someone who has been tested taking things on. I have not only run something, but I have done it in the most difficult circumstances of any of the candidates out there.”
“We will not back down, we will not be intimidated,” said Walker, whose efforts to reduce the power of public sector unions led to an unsuccessful effort to recall him.
A reporter asked, “There are those who say Donald Trump is wreaking a little havoc on your campaign, your poll numbers are sagging, how are you going to change that?”
Walker replied that he used to run track and “the only time it mattered whether you were ahead was at the finish line. I plan on being ahead when we cross the finish line in 2016.”
Iowa State Fair
Highland Park Soad Fountain, Dallas
Wreaking havoc? Wait a minute. I thought that was Trump’s assignment. Read it in the paper.
I’d like to see him as VP.
The same guy who says we should not run conservative candidates against Boehner and McConnell and Cantor wants to “wreak havoc on Washington”
mmmkay
January 3, 2011 - Walker assumes Office of Governor of Wisconsin.
January 3, 2011 - Joins 24 other states in Obamacare lawsuit.
June 27, 2011: Walker Revokes In-state Tuition For Undocumented Students Attending Univ And Colleges In Wisconsin [ONLY GOV AND STATE THAT HAS]
"- On Sunday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) signed his two-year 2011-2013 budget, which included ending in-state tuition for undocumented students attending public universities and colleges. In-state tuition for undocumented students was approved two years ago by former Governor Jim Doyle (D) after the Hispanic community struggled for 10 years to pass it."...
"The 2011 Wisconsin protests were a series of demonstrations in the state of Wisconsin in the United States beginning in February involving at its zenith as many as 100,000 protesters opposing the 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, also called the "Wisconsin Budget Repair bill." Subsequently, anti-tax activists and other conservatives, including Tea Party advocates, launched small pockets of counter protests. The protests centered on the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, with satellite protests also occurring at other municipalities throughout the state. Demonstrations took place at various college campuses, including the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. After the collective bargaining bill was upheld by the Wisconsin Supreme Court on June 14, the number of protesters declined to about 1,000 within a couple days.
The protests were a major driving force for recall elections of state senators in 2011 and 2012, the failed recall of Governor Scott Walker in 2012 and a contentious Wisconsin Supreme Court election in 2011."......
Well at least he has the flip flopping down. That skill should come in handy on those burgers.
August 18, 2015: Scott Walker to blast GOP leaders in Washington "“Republican leaders in Washington told us during the campaign last year that we needed a Republican Senate to repeal Obamacare,” the Wisconsin governor will say, according to excerpts of his remarks released by the campaign. “Well, Republicans have been in charge of both houses of Congress since January and there still isn’t a bill on the president’s desk to repeal Obamacare.”
Regional.
Always late to the party. Gotta get his talking point from Reince???
He needs first to go to the Southern Border and promise to build that wall then return lawless illegal aliens to the South from whence they came breaking our laws!
At least Scott Walker has a sense of humor about the media’s attempt to put words in his mouth [just as they did with a Canadian wall, anchor babies, college rape reporting, Wisconsin’s economic growth, forced ultrasounds, etc.].
The set-up and follow through: Headline news wildly lies about something said or done, then ridicules the candidate for telling the media they’re making it up.
But you go right on spreading that. It’s all you have.
LOL! The guy who can barely get 100 people together at a BBQ joint is going to be a formidable opponent in a general election. I’m ROTFLMAO! So is Trump. LOL!
Supported megyn kellys feminist tirade(beta male), wife is a homo lover, wants no mexican border enforcement(the you tube video is out there), is a george will(democrat) muppet. GOPe dude all the way.
That pic shows the only time Walker ever drew a crowd and it was to tar and feather him. LOL!
Texas swing? Isn’t that code speak for lynching?
June 27, 2011: Walker Revokes In-state Tuition For Undocumented Students Attending Univ And Colleges In Wisconsin [ONLY Gov/State that has] "- On Sunday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) signed his two-year 2011-2013 budget, which included ending in-state tuition for undocumented students attending public universities and colleges. In-state tuition for undocumented students was approved two years ago by former Governor Jim Doyle (D) after the Hispanic community struggled for 10 years to pass it."...
March 2015: “I made it clear that for me, if somebody wants to be a citizen, they need to go back to their country of origin, get in line, no preferential treatment,” Walker said. “In terms of what to do beyond that, again, that’s something we got to work with Congress on.” '
April 20, 2015: Scott Walker Lays Out Pro American Worker Stance on Immigration "During an interview with Glenn Beck, Walker became the first declared or potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate to stake out a position on immigration fully in line with that of Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL). He also noted that he has been working with Chairman Sessions on the issue to learn more about it.
Walker is now the only potential or declared GOP presidential candidate to discuss the negative effects of a massive increase in legal immigration on American workers:..........................."
MAY 26, 2015: "Exclusive — Walker: We’d Be Sending in Navy to Stop Illegals if They Were Swarming Our Sea Ports Like They Do Southern Border
"Republican Party 2016 primary frontrunner Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker told Breitbart News exclusively that if the invasion of illegal aliens that’s currently swarming across America’s southern border were coming in via America’s sea ports, the government would be sending in the Navy to stop it. Instead, the federal government—despite not having to at all—chooses, he says, to leave the U.S. border with Mexico wide open.
June 20, 2015: 5:00 video Scott Walker Confronted by Undocumented Immigrant Family "Everyone must follow the laws" (watch it).
You mean like he’s done on WI? Maybe he’ll build a National Stadium at taxpayers expense.
Go away Scotty. Just go away.
How astute!
We want to agitate the Left!
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