Scott Walker's Embrace of Chris Christie Is a Blight Worthy of a Jersey Swamp

Update: Fort Lee mayor won't cooperate with Chris Christie lawyers who think they're prosecutors --- Scott Walker's rallying around America's most corrupt governor is an embrace becoming rare among Republicans as Chris Christie becomes as toxic as a New Jersey dumping site.

As reported on NOW With Alex Wagner last night, only Scott Walker, Paul Ryan and Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal among Republicans with a national profile have embraced Christie in the face of almost daily reports of corruption, graft and a host of bald-faced lies.

But Scott Walker is not too particular on where he gets his out-of-state money.

Walker is benefiting from another $ six-figure ad buy this week from Christie's Republican Governors Association (RGA) following Walker's steadfast support of Christie over demands that Christie step down as chair of the RGA.

Last week, Politico reported "Walker said he and Christie spoke the same day last month that Christie held his marathon press conference declaring his innocence in the scheme to slow traffic on the George Washington Bridge in an apparent act of political retribution. Walker said he believed Christie’s explanation then – that wayward aides executed the traffic jam without his knowledge – and has had no reason to doubt the New Jersey governor since ... ."
Worth noting even Chris Christie is holding a listening session today in New Jersey, a forum that to this day Scott Walker refuses to participate in to face Wisconsin voters. Update: Listening session is postponed due to snow. At least Christie has a reason for not holding this listening session, Walker refuses to even discuss holding listening sessions.

Republicans are fleeing Chris Christie with the exception of Paul Ryan,
Bobby Jindal and Scott Walker

Scott Walker: I Stand with Chris Christie

Update: One Wisconsin Now notes the Republican Governors Association spent over $15 million on reelection Scott Walker so Walker will not let corruption stand in the way; corruption is the point for him.

Of course you do. Corrupt GOP governors need to stand together.

From Politico:

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday that Chris Christie should remain chairman of the Republican Governors Association, despite calls from some quarters for the New Jersey governor to step aside in light of the traffic scandal dogging him back home.

Walker said he and Christie spoke the same day last month that Christie held his marathon press conference declaring his innocence in the scheme to slow traffic on the George Washington Bridge in an apparent act of political retribution. Walker said he believed Christie’s explanation then – that wayward aides executed the traffic jam without his knowledge – and has had no reason to doubt the New Jersey governor since. ...

Chris Christie Held 100-plus Town-hall Meetings; Scott Walker: ZERO

Scott Walker denied being
"directly involved" in Walker's
retaliation against college student

Killer piece in the New York Times on the corruption of the Chris Christie administration.

Kate Zernike and David W. Chen paint a portrait of a self-consciously corrupt group of Republicans.

Things got out of hand with Christie's people who got a little too full of themselves, creating an enemies' list and using the machinery of government to endanger the health and safety of perceived political enemies: AKA the people of New Jersey.

Before anyone in Wisconsin yells this sounds like Scott Walker, consider this fact:

Christie held "frequent town-hall-style meetings — more than 100 in four years," Zernike and Chen report.

More 100 town-hall-style meetings in four years.

Scott Walker by comparison has been in office going over three years, and has held zero town-hall-style meetings, and shuns any unscripted face-to-face meetings with the people of Wisconsin which Walker sees as enemy territory.

I mean this is Wisconsin, not the Ukraine and Walker insists on a traveling with a heavily armed caravan of state troopers.

Zernike and Chen write of Christie: "Staff members in the governor’s office created tabbed and color-coded dossiers on the mayors of each town — who their friends and enemies were, the policies and projects that were dear to them — that were bound in notebooks for the governor to review in his S.U.V. between events."

Walker has a list, the Recall Scott Walker list that he uses against political opponents.

Walker is so petty that last summer he appointed and then withdrew the 18-year-old college student appointee to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents after it became public that the student had signed the Recall Scott Walker petition that drew almost one million signatures.

An embarrassed Scott Walker then denied knowing who he appointed in the first place, denied he changed his mind and then denied having been involved in changing his mind.

Walker appears every bit the sleazy character Chris Christie is, but at least Christie faces the people while Walker hides.

Here is some video of Walker first denying, then refusing to answer questions about what he just did.

Pathetic.

Told you Scott Walker is a lightweight.

Walker will never be a serious candidate for the nomination for president of his own party.

But at least Christie, whose own presidential aspirations were just destroyed by corruption, faces the people of his own state and takes questions.

Scott Walker hides.