Posted on 07/14/2015 6:36:24 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
"....Pleasant. That’s even how Walker’s bitterest political foes describe him.
In the heat of the state’s showdown with its union four years ago, Rep. Peter Barca, the Wisconsin State Assembly’s top Democrat, publicly denounced the governor at protests across the state. “You know, Governor Walker, you have defiled our heritage,” Barca said at one rally. “You have disregarded our values.”
But Walker,who declined to be interviewed for this article,never took it personally. “I’d give a speech in front of 50,000 protesters saying,‘Walker’s got to go,’“ Barca says, “and you’d see him the next day and you’d think I just sent him a coffeecake or something.”
Barca is part of a small group of leaders who meet regularly with Walker during the legislative session,but Barca said those gatherings are almost never satisfying. “Generally,when you meet with him on the major issues,you don’t feel like it’s a dialogue,”he says. “We get along just fine. He is sort of chitchatty. He exchanges pleasantries,makes some jokes. But you just feel like that on the big issues he is just there to tell you, ‘Here’s what I am going to do.’”
The roots of his immovability may lie in what he calls being a “P.K.”-a preacher’s kid.
In the tiny farming community of Plainfield,Iowa, where Walker moved when was 2,his father,Llewellyn Walker,was pastor at First Baptist Church and served on the city council. His mother, Patricia, was head of the Sunday school. The family, which would soon include Walker’s younger brother,David, lived in a parsonage next door to the church.
Walker credits his no-frills upbringing and parents’ example for imbuing a deep religious belief and a clear moral vision that has guided him for as long as he can remember...
“Scott has a very strong sense of right and wrong,”says Stephen Satran, who was in an antiabortion group with Walker in college...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
No, it means they don’t know how to rattle him.
Sounds like the makings of a great chief executive.
If Scott has a very strong sense of right and wrong, why hasn’t he imbued this to his wife and kids?
It sounds like a house divided......the sons are ‘passionate’ for gay marriage.....the wife is good with it too cause she has a lesbian aunt who recently married another lesbian.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Scott Walker talks too fast. Reagan spoke deliberately at a slower rate and was inherently more believable because of that. The baritone voice didn’t hurt, either. If Walker could slow down the delivery and limit his presentations to three or four consistent goals and attendant methods, he would go far to replicating Reagan’s success.
C’mon Scott get with the times. Everything is relative. There is no such thing as Right or Wrong. There is no such thing as Good and Evil. Now we have even learned there is no such thing as Man or Women.
Dang! We is so smart!
Walkjer and Cruz, are all doing well in that regard. Trump has “hit back” a bit and has weakened his position because of it. I would rather see these three stick to goals optimistically presented and abjure attacking other Republicans, nominal or not, while pretty much ignoring Democrat and MSM attacks i.e. not responding. Reagan showed how this approach wins.
It’s a very telling article!
READ the article.
. . . or, in not being a political prostitute. But that's a species that may not be imaginable in the WP world.
He may or may not be the man we need for this election. I think whoever it is needs a fundamental understanding of the peril of uncontrolled immigration, and a willingness to be like Ronald Reagan, ignore the advice of advisers (including family) and "fundamentally transform" the immigration process. That is, to reverse it, and re-found America's understanding of our Constitution and our heritage.
He's got the resolve, but he doesn't seem to grasp as yet that without Americans, there is no America.
If you haven’t had a chance yet, check this out:
http://conservatives4palin.com/2015/07/gov-scott-walker-%E2%80%A2-one-on-one-%E2%80%A2-hannity.html
Hannity’s interview with Scott Walker last night.
Perhaps they should have described him as unflappable instead...
And....?
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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 [ONLY STATE THAT HAS DONE THIS] "- 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: “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.”
Breitbart: 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...."
Peter Barca is the Wisconsin equivalent of Nancy Pelosi...lead fleabagger.
Figured you needed a break from defining others the way that you want them to be perceived, and read instead what people, who actually know him, have to say.
I can imagine!
Surely you are familiar with Ronald Reagans children, Patti and Ron - should we judge Reagan a failure by your standard also?
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