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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPRETTY PLEASE? Scott Walker Pleads With Wisconsin to Love Him Just One More Time
Hes won two elections and a recall effort, but the governor is finding voters are getting tired of his brand of politics.
Erin Banco
10.30.18 4:10 AM ET
APPLETON, WIDressed in a red zip-up with a Bucky Badger emblem and his go-to cowboy boots, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker stood in a gutted, garage-like building in the Green Bay Packer heartland pleading for his political survival.
Things could go heading backwards right away, Walker said to a crowd of 40 people. We got to get that message out. We have to get that out even if we are standing in line at the grocery store. In fact I want you to go out and vote 10 times for me. Im asking you to vote once yourself and find nine more people.
Walkers appeals to the crowd came a day after former President Barack Obama rallied for his gubernatorial opponent, Tony Evers, in Milwaukeean event Walker explained to the small, mostly older group of people in Appleton as simply another way the Democrats were targeting him.
Theyd love nothing then to beat us here, Walker said, eliciting several loud boos from Make America Great Again hat wearers. But the rest of his stump speech seemed to fall on tired ears.
That fatigue is exactly what the governors team is worried about in the final week before the election. That is why theyve embarked on a drastic strategy: try to get moderates to vote for Scott Walker. In gentler political times in this purple state, this wouldnt, of course, seem out of the ordinary. But four years after winning his re-election with ease, Walker finds himself in a far different political position.
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PRETTY PLEASE? Scott Walker Pleads With Wisconsin to Love Him Just One More Time (Original Post)
DonViejo
Oct 2018
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beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)1. Wisconsin has slipped in so many categories. Throw in democrats are no
longer willing to sit out Elections. Walkers time is up
riversedge
(70,299 posts)2. I do believe Wisconsin is waking up. Gawd I hope so!
Greybnk48
(10,176 posts)3. He's done nothing but destruction in the past four years.
He's trashed the education system, the roads are crumbling, he's trashed the environment, and he's sold the State to Koch Industries and Taiwan.
If Walker's Madison mafia cheat this election, the last protests will look like a joke. It will be torches and pitchforks. He is hated by the vast majority.
*I live in Appleton, and the fact that only 40 people showed up for Walker on a nice Fall day is a pleasant but mild surprise! Good riddance to that skeevy fucker.
strangedaysindeed
(226 posts)4. End of the line shithead
go do your Koch-daddy's business somewhere else.
Blue Owl
(50,498 posts)5. Desperadope
n/t
BlueWI
(1,736 posts)6. His schtick is tired and unconvincing even to his base.
Can we please be done with this error of a governor?
Caliman73
(11,744 posts)7. Desperate and Tone Deaf...
Things could go heading backwards right away,
How much further back can they go? Isn't Wisconsin in the high 30's in economy and job creation when they were in the top 10 before that droopy eyed idiot took over?
How much further back can they go? Isn't Wisconsin in the high 30's in economy and job creation when they were in the top 10 before that droopy eyed idiot took over?