Where Is Scott Walker?

New York Magazine ^ | May 22, 2015 | Marin Cogan

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Over the last three months, the GOP's Iowa front-runner has become an incredible, shrinking presence on the campaign trail. Sure, he's still touring the country, introducing himself to voters, telling them how unafraid he was to stand up to the unions and liberal protesters he battled in Wisconsin, but he's also ducking out of uncontrolled situations, skipping questions from the press, and spending more time on small or private events, usually packed with friendly crowds. Last week, when he traveled to Israel — usually an occasion to invite reporters or hold a press conference — Walker held no press events. The same was true last month when he went to Europe. He skipped the press on a recent tour of the Mexico border, at a campaign stop in South Carolina, and even at a local chamber of commerce event in his home state of Wisconsin.....

...There’s a common feeling among Iowa GOP insiders that, as prominent Iowa social conservative Bob Vander Plaats put it to me, “his campaign intentionally put in the clutch,” on Walker’s meteoric rise, for two reasons: One, to manage his momentum going into 2016 and keep him from peaking too early. The other, to give the candidate time to prepare for the scrutiny that being a front-runner brings. .....

Update: Walker's campaign vigorously denies that he has been less accessible to the press, and sent along a list detailing a number of interviews he's given over the last two months, including with local reporters in Iowa and New Hampshire and with conservative outlets. The campaign did not respond to initial requests for comment regarding Walker's media availability.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Instead of getting Ted Cruz supporter Bob Vander Plaats' "wisdom," listen to yesterday's wide ranging and revealing Scott Walker interview: The Dana Show 29:00

[Yosemitest]

Your PRO-AMNESTY Candidate, Scott Walker, is PROVED to be TALKING OUT OF BOTHS SIDES OF THE ISSUE ( you CAN NOT TRUST him ! ).
Watch the videos and READ the article from HOT AIR, most certainly not on your list of band-sources.

... Two points.
One: He says he’s not for amnesty, his citizenship stance notwithstanding, but that’s not a new soundbite for Walker.
“Amnesty” means many things to many people;
to the Gang of Eight, for instance, the fact that illegals would be forced to meet certain requirements (paying back taxes, etc) before qualifying for citizenship meant that their plan wasn’t “amnesty.”
Walker’s been insisting for more than a year that he doesn’t support “amnesty” either
even though he does support citizenship and liberalizing the rules for legal immigration.

Two: He’s quick to tell Raddatz that he’ll lay out his own immigration plan eventually if he becomes a candidate,
which is his way of saying “don’t ask me anything too specific right now.”

Listening to him here, you would think he didn’t have firm opinions on immigration
yet beyond some basic principles like “secure the border.”
But that’s not so.
Watch him field a question on immigration from 2013 in the second clip below
and note what he says about border security at around 1:30.
For Walker, securing the border is less a matter of building a fence or hiring 10,000 new Border Patrol agents than it is about RELAXING THE RULES for legal admission to the U.S.
His view seems to be
that if you want to come here to work, IT SHOULD BE VERY EASY FOR YOU TO DO SO —
easy enough that you wouldn’t even think of crossing the border illegally, as the legal route would be just as simple.
...


Scott Walker Non-Committal on Immigration ( 0:53 ) by National Review
Let's keep LOSER Walker in his home state.
We don't need any more SELLOUTS in Washington D.C., and especially in the Oval Office!

Now here's a source you might like.
Scott Walker Reveals Himself as Communist on Recall Night

[knarf]

It’s 0545 Saturday of Memorial Day weekend .... he’s still in bed ... leave him alone ... what’s it TO you ?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Good morning.

[afraidfortherepublic]

NY Magazine questions whether Scott Walker has put the “brakes” on his campaign to keep from peaking too early.

FReep mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.

[knarf]

It IS, isn't it

Thank You, Lord for another shot at yesterday ... only this time better

[Erik Latranyi]

You are the poster child for mental disease.

[Yosemitest]

Nope, just the Walker DUPES that he'll soon stab in the back, when he pays the "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS" BACK FOR THEIR SUPPORT by voting FOR AMNESTY !

[major-pelham]

Top ‘o the Morning CW

The notion that anyone would put forward that Scott Walker is afraid of anything (given what he’s been through) strikes me as alternative universeism. And, to somehow compare him to Obama, is plain moonbatism.

[lurk]

‘...he’s also ducking out of uncontrolled situations, skipping questions from the press, and spending more time on small or private events, usually packed with friendly crowds.’

Which is what Hillary is doing. No need to overexpose with 18 months to go.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

January 3, 2011 - Walker assumes Office of Governor of Wisconsin.

June 27, 2011: Walker Revokes In-state Tuition For Undocumented Students Attending Univ And Colleges In Wisconsin"- 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."...

[Wisconsin is the only state to ever revoke instate tuition for illegals.]

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Posters who choose to paint Walker as supporting "amnesty" must then paint Cruz with the same brush (if they were honest).

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"....“We need to focus where there’s agreement: securing the border and improving legal immigration,” [Sen. Ted Cruz] said. “And once we demonstrate we can secure the borders, I think then we can have a conversation about people who are here illegally.” Cruz added that he tried unsuccessfully to pass an amendment to the bipartisan immigration bill that passed the Senate in 2013 that would have barred undocumented immigrants from receiving citizenship but still allowed them to obtain permits to live and work in America. Its failure, he said, showed Democrats were unwilling to compromise on citizenship at all costs.

Cruz’s anecdote again left things open to interpretation. At the time he offered his citizenship amendment, The New York Times described it as Cruz seeking a “middle ground” between full citizenship and mass deportation in which undocumented immigrants could still work legally in America.

On Wednesday, however, a spokesman for Cruz, Brian Phillips, clarified to msnbc on Twitter that this interpretation was incorrect and Cruz merely offered the amendment as an exercise to prove Democrats’ obstinacy on citizenship. It was not an endorsement of the work permit component of the bill that his amendment left intact.

“Cruz’s amendment had nothing to do with that issue,” Phillips said.

Cruz offered an unambiguous defense of greater legal immigration, where he boasted that he had offered to expand an annual cap on H1B visas for high-tech workers “fivefold” in order to attract more talent to the United States...." Ted Cruz tiptoes around immigration at Hispanic business event

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March 2015: “We strongly dispute this account. Governor Walker has been very clear that he does not support amnesty and believes that border security must be established and the rule of law must be followed. His position has not changed, he does not support citizenship for illegal immigrants, and this story line is false,” she announced in an email to journalists Thursday afternoon.”

“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.”

Conservative Media Rallies to Walker After Tough Talk on Legal Immigration "The conservative movement’s leading media icons lined up to back Scott Walker after the media attempted to lynch him for talking tough on immigration.

After being attacked by outlets such as MSNBC, Mother Jones magazine and the Huffington Post, Walker stayed the course, telling the Quad City Times on Friday that American workers had to come first.".....................

[Erik Latranyi]

Nope, just the Walker DUPES that he'll soon stab in the back, when he pays the "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS" BACK FOR THEIR SUPPORT by voting FOR AMNESTY !

You mean, like the Cruz supporters who were just sold down the river for Obama's secret trade powers?

[USS Alaska]

Nope, just the Walker DUPES that he'll soon stab in the back, when he pays the "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS" BACK FOR THEIR SUPPORT by voting FOR AMNESTY !

every election cycle we at FR try to "out-conservative" each other to the point of vicious insanity.

STOP IT!

[gitmo]

I agree. I dread the backstabbing on FR come election time.

This election and the last we have a great field of candidates.

[Yosemitest]

Not hardly !

Source

Sen. Cruz: Congress Must Prohibit Obama From Abusing TPA to Change Immigration Law
CRUZ FILES AMENDMENT TO TRADE PROMOTION AUTHORITY LEGISLATION

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today filed an amendment to the Trade Act of 2015 to lock in assurances that this legislation cannot be used to change federal immigration law.

"The Obama Administration has repeatedly assured Members of Congress that
there is nothing in the Trade Act of 2015 that would allow the President to unilaterally make changes to federal immigration laws.
I agree, and we should put it in writing and make it binding law," said Sen. Cruz.
"I am a strong supporter of free trade, but I cannot support legislation that would allow the President to once again circumvent Congress to enact his own immigration laws.
Since the Obama Administration has emphatically argued
that TPA will not affect immigration,
it should support this amendment, which makes that promise explicit."

The amendment states that
nothing in the Trade Act of 2015 or in any trade agreement subject to the Act "shall alter or affect any law, regulation, or policy relating to immigration."

The amendment also states that
any fast-track procedures shall not apply to any implementing bill submitted with respect to a trade agreement
"that includes any provision that alters or affects any law, regulation, or policy relating to immigration."

The text of the bill is available here.

TRED CRUZ had a gut-ripping amendment to that bill.
So I support TED CRUZ !

[Yosemitest]

You’re the one supporting a SELLOUT !

[Yosemitest]

What will you say, when walker STABS YOU ON THE BACK BY VOTING FOR AMNESTY ?

[GeronL]

but he's also ducking out of uncontrolled situations, skipping questions from the press, and spending more time on small or private events, usually packed with friendly crowds

I don't think Walker is Hillary though

[SauronOfMordor]

It seems like common sense to minimize contact with a hostile press.

This is the Internet Age. He can get out his message while bypassing the press.

[Erik Latranyi]

TRED CRUZ had a gut-ripping amendment to that bill.

You really are stupid.

Ted Cruz offered that amendment after he voted to move the TPA along.

Ted Cruz's amendment went down in flames (like everyone knew it would) so the bill has NO PROTECTION from Obama flooding our nation with illegals.

On final vote, with the details still in secret and Cruz's amendment voted down, CRUZ VOTED TO PASS THE BILL

Ted Cruz wanted this to pass all along. He penned op eds and urged its passage. His amendment and talk was empty pabulum meant to sway the weak-minded, like you.

Ted Cruz is an establishment, amnesty, US Chamber, Golman Sachs Republican.

Ted Cruz, first term Senator....gives great speeches, then votes the other way....reminds me of another first-term Senator who ran for President.