Gov. Scott Walker Will Lose by Four Points, Says Harry Enten

Scott Walker equals underdog, desperate, sinking ship ...

Madison, Wisconsin — Gov. Scott Walker (R) will lose his reelection bid by four percentage points to Tony Evers, Democratic Party nominee, says polling expert Harry Enten, (CNN).

Enten's model tracks with conventional wisdom that paints a hostile terrain for Walker, (Bauer, AP), (Nichols, The Nation).

Moreover, Enten's model does not account for increased turnout from populous Wisconsin municipalities that tend to vote Democratic-progressive.

Wisconsin cities have contacted Madison election officials (second largest city) asking about facilitating voter turnout.

Bureaucratic training of metro election officials has accelerated following a 2016 federal court decision that freed municipal election officials to pursue voter-friendly policies.

Green Bay, third largest city, is expected to have near-presidential turnout, a local election official says.

Scott Walker and Republicans are desperate, and a new round of negative, dark-money ads are flooding the state.

But Walker and Republicans have maxed-out the low-information, racist, stupid vote, and a visit by Donald Trump likely cannot save Scott Walker.

All Walker and Republicans can do is scream black and brown people are going to kill you, as early-vote numbers come in signaling the end of Wisconsin's worst era in its statehood.

2,008 Madisonians voted at one of our in-person absentee voting locations today making it our busiest day yet this election! To date, 11,616 voters have voted in-person absente, and 16,148 total absentee ballots have been cast in the City of Madison. pic.twitter.com/7fSZhrxhkm

— Madison WI Clerk (@MadisonWIClerk) October 24, 2018

So you've heard Donald Trump is appearing in Wisconsin with
Scott Walker. You know they're racist. You know they're
sexist. And you know they have a terrible record on
just about every issue imaginable.

You also know the visit is going to be splashed across
newspapers and television screens across the
state ad nauseam, and there's probably not much you can
do about that.

But there is something you can do right now to help stop
Donald Trump and Scott Walker's racist, sexist agenda:
VOTE. EARLY.

Stop what you're doing. Go to the polls. And vote. Right now.

Need help? Start here. Via One Wisconsin Now

Wisconsin People Get Court Win Against Scott Walker Who Blocked Two Special Elections

Voters are entitled to vote in Wisconsin, judge tells Scott
Walker in unprecedented state court decision on
March 22, 2018. "To state the obvious, if the plaintiffs have a
right to vote for their representatives, they must have
an election to do so," Dane County Judge Josann Reynolds.

Update: Wisconsin AP reporter, Scott Bauer reports judicial mandamus order against Walker is expected to be appealed by Wisconsin DOJ.

Walker is attempting to continue to block the two special elections in question, as corporate media is silent; no editorial condemnation of Walker's unprecedented move against voters.
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Madison, Wisconsin—Gov. Scott Walker remains frightened of the Wisconsin people.

Voters, elections, open listening sessions, communities acting on behalf of residents, the University searching for truth—all are the bane of Scott Walker.

In an unprecedented ruling yesterday, Dane County Judge Josann Reynolds, (Branch two), ordered Walker, (who has sole authority), to call two special legislative elections that Walker was blocking, (Wisconsin State Journal, Salon).

Two legislative vacancies combined left some 229,000 Wisconsinites without representation, (Ballotpedia).

Walker fearing an anti-Republican voter tide told Wisconsin voters: No elections.

The Republican Dept of Justice made up what the Walker-appointed Judge Reynolds called arguments leading to "absurd" results.

The DoJ has gone dark and silent on press communications about the decision, despite its typical peripatetic use of its press office.

Josann Reynolds excoriated Walker's novel reading of the applicable Wisconsin statute, saying, "Defendant’s, [Walker's] reading creates a window of just four months in any two-year period in which special elections must be held and thus leaves open the possibility that residents of Wisconsin could go unrepresented for almost two years if any governor declined to issue an order calling for a special election," (Wisconsin State Journal).

The civil action on behalf of Wisconsin voters against Walker is a petition for a writ of mandamus, filed in late February.

A judicial writ or order of mandamus is extraordinary, and implies in this case that Scott Walker is not fulfilling the Constitutional obligations of his office, and that voters were deprived of their right to vote under the Wisconsin Constitution.

Readers searching for the mandamus order and opinion are advised to contact the Dane County Clerk of Courts and make a Freedom of Information request, or wait until someone posts the opinion that was being composed Thursday afternoon.

Scott Walker's New Ad Shows 10,000s at Capitol from 2011, Warns "They're Coming"

Scott Walker still
fears Wisconsin
citizens.

Updated - Gov. Scott Walker is back to his 2011 playbook warning Wisconsin citizens are coming to our capitol to protest corruption.

In an online ad, (at top-right), Walker's ad reads:  "They're coming. We need to fight back."

The ad displays an image of the capitol with 10,000s of people petitioning their government after Walker dropped a "bomb" on Wisconsin, rushing through legislation on which he refused to campaign in 2010 because the unpopular measure would have cost him the election.

Since Walker took office, Walker has assumed an unusual posture, appearing afraid of the Wisconsin people, often demonizing families as dangerous.

In 2013, Walker escalated his regime's work against outlawed expression of political dissent, going to the extreme of having the capitol cops warn people could be given disorderly conduct citation for spectating, or watching, other people sing or display an anti-Scott Walker expression.

Walker's regime at the capitol was ruled unconstitutional, and after losing a series of First Amendment cases, Walker's administration agreed to stop pursuing Wisconsin citizens.

"The Wisconsin Capitol Rotunda functions, both literally and symbolically, as a city center and is fully utilized as a public space to which all have claim," noted United States District Court Judge William M. Conley for the Western District of Wisconsin in Michael Kissick vs. Michael Huebsch and David Erwin (Mal Contends), citing Wisconsin's National Historic Landmark Nomination document, among other historical documents in his 2013 preliminary injunction that led to a free speech victory.

In Walker's aborted run for the presidency in 2015, Walker compared protesting Wisconsin citizens to ISIS.

Republican Malignancy; Dolts and Boobs

Repellent persona of Scott Walker shoos away intellectual and
cultural talent from the progressive state. Walker is not alone.

The Republican effort to transform Wisconsin into a homeland resembling rural Iowa is a strategic mission, composed of many projects.

Republican politics employ excellent project management skill and strategic thinking with no equivalent force in Democratic-progressive efforts.

What's alarming is Republicans are not just building political infrastructure, usurping control of most every lever of regulatory and bureaucratic governmental function.

The dangers of the white party's enterprise lay in the concomitant demolition of civil society, institutions serving the public, and individual liberties—degrading Milwaukee, Madison, voting rights, public universities, public schools, labor unions, environmentalists, multi-generational families wedded to communities, small farmers, local democracy, all while appropriating public resources into the criminal justice system and prison-industrial complex.

One can go on, but suffice to note the Republican objectives are malignant and self-consciously destructive.

This social engineering project is nothing new in American politics, though the scope has been expanded as monied interests expend capital more freely.

It ought to be noted that repeated and ostentatious displays of xenophobia, ignorance, and the repellent persona of the dolt—as exhibited by the Evangelical Scott Walker—is functional to the Republican mission.

High-tech industry, gifted artists, social activists and young intellects are starting to turn away from Wisconsin, as the Republicans have hoped.

I caught the All In with Chris Hayes Show broadcast from Kenosha last night. Several Donald Trump voters explained their positions to Bernie Sanders and a small audience.

Brilliant show, and along with the election of November 2016, illustrates an inescapable conclusion.

White Wisconsin folk are utterly hopeless, and the ignorant, bigoted, irrational boobs emitting their nonsense from Kenosha portend a bleak future. But keep fighting.

Scott Walker's War on First Amendment Costs Tax-payers Another $245,000

Scott Walker's using the capitol police to silence anti-Walker, pro-freedom voices—a prolonged effort that became both brutal and grew to outrageous lengths—was halted in a court of law.

The monetary totals in the resulting civil suits are rising, and rightfully so.

Wisconsin tax-payers get stuck with the bill, while Scott Walker offers no comment.

Ed Treleven at the Wisconsin State Journal has the story.

The Voice Project tells the story in their video before the courts stopped Walker.

#SolidarityWisconsin

Scott Walker's Defeat in His Attack on First Amendment Is Story That Should Be Told

Wisconsin capitol cops allow handcuffed Vietnam veteran,
Will Williams to tumble down stairs in August 2013.
An ambulance then transported him to the local
VA hospital for treatment. (WCMC)

Scott Walker's War Against Free Speech Ended in Major GOP Defeat, First Amendment Win for Wisconsin Citizens—Ignored So Far by National Media in Walker's Run for the Presidency—100s Were Thrown in Jail, Treated as Criminals, and Some Brutalized as Walker's Capitol Cops Oppressed Political Opponents

Legal civil liberties victories are not typically sexy in the political culture.

A handful of attorneys and citizens work diligently, the victories are rarely celebrated as a society though individuals' won freedom represent prevailing over anti-democratic, anti-freedom political movements and administrations.

It's no surprise Scott Walker's administration at the capitol that used capitol police to silence anti-Walker, pro-freedom voices—a prolonged effort that became both brutal and grew to outrageous lengths—was halted in a court of law.

At one point in August 2013, Walker's Department of Administration (DOA, aka the Department of All, constantly growing as Walker's power grabs accumulate) and the DOA's capitol police actually encircled people on the capitol rotunda and warned them "spectating"—(watching) an event or a gathering of people declared illegal by the capitol police chief (a former Walker bodyguard now clearing $100,000/year courtesy of Wisconsin taxpayers, and who runs what he newly termed the capitol "Executive Command Staff," which oversaw Walker's using police against political opponents)—was grounds for arrest. (Kemble, The Progressive) (WKOW-TV (Madison)) (Rowan, Wisconsin Media Media Cooperative)

That same month, a local state representative was threatened with arrest for "spectating." (Davidoff, Isthmus)

What is a shock is how many went along with this idiocy.

It's the state capitol, and capitol police are presented with situations rendering them little more than mall cops, but to this day act at though they are under siege and have militarized a function that used to be a cushy capitol tourist information function position, parking police and maybe giving a speeding ticket to someone driving around the capitol square too fast. Notable exceptions who spoke out against the capitol cops include the Madison Professional Police Officers Association and Dane County Deputy Sheriffs Association in September 2013.

Former Madison Mayor David J. Cieslewicz (2003-2011) actively sided with Scott Walker (Mal Contends) (Mal Contends). Cieslewicz is reportedly contemplating another run at public office, one hopes his hostility to the First Amendment and Wisconsin citizens is remembered.

A federal judge in July 2013 ordered a halt to Walker's organized campaign to silence what are anti-Scott Walker speech, civil rights songs and lighthearted fun and sometimes requested tunes by the Solidarity Sing Along (Facebook), and others.

Some citizens were arrested for being black, or for watching or being present at the capitol while the capitol police decided they didn't like people assembling, in violation of the United States and Wisconsin Constitutions and longstanding public use of the capitol. (Mal Contends)

"The Wisconsin Capitol Rotunda functions, both literally and symbolically, as a city center and is fully utilized as a public space to which all have claim," writes United States District Court Judge William M. Conley in a significant opinion and injunction in Michael Kissick vs. Michael Huebsch and David Erwin.

After repeated violations of the federal order by the cops, Judge Conley ordered the parties together and reached an agreement guaranteeing the First Amendment rights of citizens in October 2013 (DeFour, Wisconsin State Journal) (Stein, Phillis and Marley, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel).

In January 2015 a Wisconsin state appellate court sustained the First Amendment rights of the civil-rights-movement-singing Wisconsin Solidarity Singers or Solidarity Sing-Along (Facebook) and other Wisconsin citizens, and put an end to Walker's regime of denying liberty (and fining) to those indicating anti-Walker expression.

That state appellate case is State of Wisconsin v. Michael W. Crute (Appeal No. 2014AP659; Circuit Court No. 2010FO2108). Mr. Crute was cited with a civil citation when he sang in 2013 and his case was dismissed by Dane County Judge John Markson last year, citing First Amendment violations by the state of Wisconsin.

About those dangerous thugs, a 2014 video by the Voice Project shows the people whom Scott Walker compared to ISIS and continues to brag that he 'took them on' in campaign stops.

Civil rights suits by citizens are still making their way through federal court.

In the video below, cops can be seen as they turn into outright fascists, arresting people, having them jailed, violently assaulting individuals and denying our fellows their very liberty.

One hopes this story is told often, and the Voice Project deserves thanks for telling it in their video.

#SolidarityWisconsin

Scott Walker's Cops Probed Madison Alder and Progressive Magazine Writer

Scott Walker Palace Guard Objects

Updated - "Just passed on the opportunity to hit (a jay-walking) Cullie Werwie, [a Scott Walker flack] with my car as he crossed [East] Wilson [Street] mid-block," joked a Madison, Wisconsin alder in Facebook a couple of months back.

Naturally, Scott Walker's Capitol police rushed to an investigation of a July 2015 Facebook post by a Madison alder and Progressive Magazine contributor.

David Erwin, Walker's chief of the Madison Capitol police is one piece of work, ... and one dumb shit.

To understand the siege mentality of Scott Walker and his Capitol cops—a collection of hacks with the understanding of the United States Constitution rivaling preschoolers'—see Tony Galli's piece at WKOW-TV (Madison, WI) today.

Kemble had reported on a Madison Capitol police officer, Officer Michael J. Syphard, grabbing a videographer, Arthur Kohl-Riggs, and throwing him to the ground and afterwards calling him "a drama queen" in a piece in The Progressive Magazine featuring Kohl-Riggs' widely circulated video and Kemble's prose in August 2013.

So, Walker's cops smelled pay-back.

"Reports state Capitol Police official Meverden determined Kemble '... does not appear to be a threat to Mr. Werwie,'" reports Galli.

Great detective work!

Kemble has also been known to sing at the Wisconsin capitol Solidarity Sing-along.

Solidarity Sing Along.

Solidarity Sing Along.

Way to go, capitol cops, and enjoy that pension, healthcare and salary you get from the Wisconsin people.

Republican legislative allies of Scott Walker have pushed the propaganda line for years that Wisconsin families, "union thugs," are harassing and assaulting them especially around election time.

Reality check: Capitol cops under Walker's tenure have turned into lawless thugs (Capital Times, June 21, 2014) (Mal Contends).

Michael J. Syphard

One Capitol cop, Michael J. Syphard likes beating on elderly women, and is still on the 'force.'

Susan Barica of the Capitol Police ( 608-266-7840, sue.barica@wisconsin.gov) refused to confirm this fact, after another Capitol Police source confirmed Syphard still draws a salary, healthcare and a pension from Wisconsin tax payers.

Syphard was placed on two deferred prosecution agreements with the Dane County District Attorney's office (Elbow, The Capital Times (Dec. 2014)).

Elbow reports:

In 2000, Syphard was charged with disorderly conduct after pinning his then-girlfriend against a wall with a forearm to the jaw before shattering her cell phone on the floor, according to a criminal complaint.

In his most recent disorderly conduct case, he was also charged with felony intimidation of a victim after allegedly confronting his estranged wife, grabbing her face with both hands and screaming at her.

'He has gone crazy,' the woman in the most recent case told police, according to the criminal complaint in that case.

Good enough for Scott Walker.

Scott Walker Says Wisconsin People "Tested" Him to Fight ISIS, "Lead" World

Scott Walker

Voters requiring evidence Scott Walker is a lightweight not fit for office at any level in our constitutional republic ought to consider Walker's foreign policy address at the Citadel military college in South Carolina. (Opoien, Capital Times) (New York Times)

Walker again makes the absurd assertion his secretly crafting legislation in 2010-11 on which he had refused to campaign—dropping a "bomb" on Wisconsin public employees to use Walker's phrase—makes Walker imbued with knowledge of battling ISIS, a force created after the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003.

"America will not be intimidated. And neither will I. America must be, not only the land of the free, but the home of the brave. An America that is unintimidated. ... Clearly, clearly, we can no longer afford to be passive spectators while the world descends into chaos. With all the challenges we face around the globe today, now is not the time for untested leadership. I have been tested like no other candidate in this race," said Walker.

The Capital Times' Opoien notes: "This wasn't the first time Walker invoked his union battle as a sign of his preparedness to tackle international conflicts. In February, addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference, Walker famously declared, 'If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world.'" [YouTube]

Nor is this the first time Walker has asserted a strange and vague notion that America must reassert military strength some where at some time to "lead" again, a reckless notion that drew wide derision after the first Republican debate.

Taking Walker's words at face value what manner does Walker view the American people when he conceives them as a force to be conquered (to use Walker's description again)? Or as analogous in any way to ISIS/ISIL?

Walker's wide-ranging, hawkish foreign policy pronouncements have been panned by foreign policy experts for months. (US News)

Notes Juan Cole on Scott Walker's response to a question about foreign policy in early August:

MEGYN KELLY: Governor Walker, in February you said that we needed to gain partners in the Arab world. Which Arab country not already in the U.S. led coalition has potential to be our greatest partner?

SCOTT WALKER: What about then (ph) [an unintelligible phonetic sound], we need to focus on the ones we have. You look at Egypt, probably the best relationship we’ve had in Israel, at least in my lifetime, incredibly important.

You look at the Saudis — in fact, earlier this year, I met with Saudi leaders, and leaders from the United Arab Emirates, and I asked them what’s the greatest challenge in the world today? Set aside the Iran deal. They said it’s the disengagement of America. We are leading from behind under the Obama-Clinton doctrine — America’s a great country. We need to stand up and start leading again, and we need to have allies, not just in Israel, but throughout the Persian Gulf.”

Writes Cole:

I mean, could the man even find these places on the map? First of all, what in the world does that mean, 'You look at Egypt, probably the best relationship we’ve had in Israel, at least in my lifetime.' Does he think Egypt is in Israel? That 'Israel' means something like 'the Middle East'? If so, no wonder Congress is willing to do whatever Tel Aviv asks. I mean, how can you decline, when the Middle East calls?

As for having allies 'throughout the Persian Gulf,' the US already does. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman are all US allies. Bahrain hosts the HQ of the Fifth Fleet. We have several thousand troops based in Kuwait. Qatar leases us the al-Udaid Air Force Base. Etc., etc. I’m not sure what the Gulf Cooperation Council states in the Gulf want the US to lead them toward, but their current campaign is in Yemen, which, although I am very critical of the Houthi rebels, I don’t think is a good idea. No doubt they would have wanted us to take the lead there. But, do we need another quagmire? But Walker seems weak-minded enough so maybe all sorts of foreign countries can bamboozle him into doing their adventurism for them.

Concludes Cole: "After W., I have a rule that if you flounder around speaking some odd Klingon form of English and don’t seem actually to, like, know anything, you can’t be president."

Or any office as the rural areas of Wisconsin are finding out, now.

Scott Walker's Failed Attempt to Kill the First Amendment

Wisconsin Capitol Police manhandle citizens
opposing Scott Walker, frightening children
and abusing seniors. Photo: Dawn Henken

Let presidential candidate Scott Walker defend his actions against the First Amendment

That a sitting public servant of Wisconsin claims to he "took on" on families who assembled at the state capitol to protest a secret public policy item is revealing of Scott Walker.

Scott Walker has an anti-democratic conception of what America is and should be, a deranged idea of personal liberty, and is a public servant who has apparently never studied the United States Constitution.

"If I can take on 100,000 protesters. I can do the same across the world," said Walker last February (Cillizza, Washington Post) in claiming his qualification to deal with ISIS/ISIL as president.

This is not Scott Walker misspeaking.

Walker destroyed the First Amendment rights of the people to assemble and voice their disapproval because 100,000s of Wisconsinites disagreed with Scott Walker who bragged he dropped a policy "bomb" by surprise.

The judiciary stepped in and stopped Scott Walker cold, who never apologized or expressed regret, instead offering the imbecilic comparison of ISIS to protesting citizens.

Walker's deplorable tactic of halting speech because of its political content veered into the absurd when his administration ordered citizens in 2013 arrested for looking at a protest, seriously; "spectating," Walker's palace guard called the alleged infraction, only to back off after a hail of criticism.

Walker's and his cops at the Capitol became so hostile a federal judge had to intervene and order that Walker's Capitol police stop violating the Constitutional rights of Wisconsin citizens.

"The Wisconsin Capitol Rotunda functions, both literally and symbolically, as a city center and is fully utilized as a public space to which all have claim." - United States District Court Judge William M. Conley in Michael Kissick vs. Michael Huebsch and David Erwin. (Mal Contends)

Walker wants followers, not citizens. And Walker's administration ordered the capitol police to act as lawless thugs in pursuit to shut down disfavored speech. (Capital Times)

Walker's conversion of several dozen civil service jobs into high-paying, politically appointed positions came with Walker's taking on the Wisconsin people: Cronies v. civil liberties.

This should politically disqualify Scott Walker as a serious candidate for public office, and at the least be examined and challenged as recent history.

Think this is hyperbole. Watch this videos, as the capitol police are walking around the rotunda, harassing people for "spectating" and declaring "you could be subject to arrest."

Here is a video of a lone woman, in her young 20s, being harassed by a capitol cop working for the Walker administration for reasons surpassing comprehension.