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'I love ribs. Ribs and BBQ': Scott Walker tells how he proposed to his wife Tonette....
The Daily Mail ^ | June 6, 2015 | Francesca Chambers For Dailymail.com In Des Moines, Iowa

Posted on 06/07/2015 1:33:37 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

'I love ribs. Ribs and BBQ': Scott Walker tells how he proposed to his wife Tonette at a Wisconsin barbecue joint while devouring a spare rib at Iowa 'Roast and Ride'

Barbecue has a special place in Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's heart.

He reminisced about their courtship today while devouring a spare rib at a 'Roast and Ride' event in Boone, Iowa...

Walker had just finished helping employees of Lynch BBQ, the event catering company, prepare a rack of ribs when he professed his love for barbecue - and his spouse.

'We met at a karaoke night, even though we didn't talk to each other,' he recalled. 'I gave her a napkin with my name on it, because the guy I was with said we just kept hitting it off.'

The two 'never talked' that night, he said.

But the brazen 24-year-old didn't let that stop him from giving Tonette, a widow who was 12 years older than him, his phone number.

Walker says he passed her a note on a napkin that said, 'Forgive me for being rude, but I gotta go home' because I gotta get ready 'for work in the morning. We'll have dinner some time.'

'She waited two days, and called me,' he said, which she said she 'never' would have done.

Walker says their first date was May 1. They went back to that same barbecue spot in August of that year, 1992, for Thursday night karaoke, and he proposed.......

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: momincombatboots

Actually, your cop out is bad for America. All it does is enhance your self esteem


21 posted on 06/07/2015 12:18:00 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

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22 posted on 06/07/2015 2:11:10 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: bert

No wonder I had such a fabulous day after posting that!


23 posted on 06/10/2015 2:04:41 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Back to West by G-d Virginia.)
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