Recall Retaliation

[hue]

http://cognidissidence.blogspot.com/2012/07/recall-retaliation.html

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Among the many negative qualities that Scott Walker is known to possess, one of the most commonly recognized ones is his practice of cronyism. Walker's cronyism is so rampant that Madison could be in the running for Crony Capitol of the world.

On the flip side, another thing that Walker likes to practice a lot, but doesn't get nearly as much attention, is retaliation.

A prime example of Walker's art of retaliation is when he tried to go after Professor William Cronon of the University of Wisconsin. Cronon wrote a strong opinion piece lambasting Walker and his Republican legislative henchmen as well as a scholarly piece exposing ALEC for the first time to many people. In retaliation, Walker sent his hit men out to see if they could find a way to professionally ruin Cronon:

Why would the Wisconsin GOP want access to Cronon’s private emails?

[HereSince1628]

1. I believe I know the answer to that question...

The GOP wanted to intimidate faculty throughout the UW system who the GOP 'KNOWS' are liberal bastaads that use their positions to undermine WI youth's belief in Republican values.

They thought they could create a climate of fear by making it look like they wanted to punish Cronon for what they saw as doing partisan politics while on state payroll. At the same time, their behavior was seen as making a heroic stand by their confrontationist base.

[Scuba]

2. Ding, ding, ding, ding. A winner already!