Scott Walker Kick-off Event Bounced Ticket-holder for Signing Recall Petition

A Waukesha, Wisconsin man picked up a ticket to Scott Walker's presidential campaign kick-off event last week.

He walked into the event, was welcomed, and then politically vetted on the spot and asked to leave because he had signed the Recall Scott Walker petition.

His name had been entered into a hand-held pad by a Walker staffer and the pad indicated: Rejected.

Typical Scott Walker: Vindictive and petty.

Chris Liebenthal has the story at Crooks and Liars.

Walker believes he has a warrant from God, (and he has prayed on this, Walker says), for his political campaign, and apparently feels opposing God and Walker is wrong.

Also wrong is opposing any sneak legislation sprung onto the Wisconsin people who don't count as stakeholders in the massive social engineering project Walker is inflicting onto Wisconsin, driving away as many people as possible to Minnesota.

So look for more campaign rhetoric that Walker was and is facing massive opposition in Wisconsin linked with references to god.

Scott Walker's Proposed Slashing of UW System Is Unconscionable and Dishonest

Scott Walker will have appointed 17 of 18 serving members of the UW System Board of Regents by May 2017; Walker's claims of independent authority are dishonest

Updated - Scott Walker never ran on slashing state funding 13 percent over a two-year period for the acclaimed University of Wisconsin System. (Bauer, AP)

But Scott Walker is calling for radically cutting and restructuring the UW System, citing Walker's $2 billion budget shortfall.

"It will make the University of Wisconsin more efficient, more effective and ultimately more accountable," Walker said.

Walker is taking his cues from the extreme rightwing on privatization of public education, and Walker's continued attempts to gut public higher education are two objectives of a wholesale project reengineering an entire state as envisioned by the the John Birch Society, (headquartered in Appleton, Wisconsin), the Koch brothers and a few other rightwing billionaires.

Project goals, propaganda and money are funneled by the usual radical right-GOP suspects: ALEC, Koch Brothers, the Bradley Foundation, MacIver Institute, the Wisconsin Reporter, Media Trackers, and the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute.

Nationally, the Koch brothers network plans to spend $889 million in 2016, it is reported today. (Gold, Washington Post)

Independent authority

In typical duplicitous fashion, Walker announced in his January 27, 2015 press release the "UW System will also have independent authority to establish policy regarding employee matters, including sick leave, tenure, and shared governance." (emphasis added)

Left out of Walker's press release is the fact the UW System Board of Regents, (of 18 sitting members), is composed of:

• 10 Walker appointees
• Seven appointees whose terms will expire in the next two years
• Tony Evers, Superintendent of Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

The Board will hardly be independent, but rather ideologically vetted by Scott Walker (as are all appointees to state commissions and boards).

In May 2017, Walker will have appointed 16 of 18 serving members of the UW System Board of Regents.

In May 2015, Walker will have appointed 12 of 18 serving members of the UW System Board of Regents.

The gerrymandered state senate which rubber-stamps Walker appointees has to approve each Walker appointment.

Walker is so controlling and ideologically extreme that Walker rescinded his appointment of UW-Platteville student Joshua Inglet to the Board in August 2013 after finding out Inglet signed the Recall Scott Walker petition to show support for his mother who is a teacher.

UW System Board of Regents

John Robert Behling - Appointed by Scott Walker in 2012
Mark J. Bradley - Term expires May 2017
José Delgado - Appointed by Scott Walker in 2014
Tony Evers - Elected as Superintendent of Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

Michael J. Falbo - Term expires May 2015 (President of the Board)
Margaret Farrow - Appointed by Scott Walker in 2013
Eve Hall - Appointed by Scott Walker in 2014
Nicolas Harsy - Term expires May 2016

Tim Higgins - Appointed by Scott Walker in 2011
Edmund Manydeeds - Term expires May 2017
Regina Millner - Appointed by Scott Walker in 2012
Janice Mueller - Appointed by Scott Walker in 2013

Drew Petersen - Appointed by Scott Walker in 2013
Charles Pruitt - Term expires May 2016
Anicka Purath - Appointed by Scott Walker in 2015
José F. Vásquez - Term expires May 2016

David G. Walsh - Term expires May 2015
Gerald Whitburn - Appointed by Scott Walker in 2011

Scott Walker Fills Post after Axing Student for Signing Recall Walker Petition

Photo by RockNetRoots

UW-Platteville student Joshua Inglett found out last June how petty Scott Walker is.

Days after being appointed on a Monday in June by Walker to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, the mild-mannered engineering student's appointment was rescinded by Walker when Walker found out Inglett had signed the Recall Walker petition to show support for his mother who is a substitute teacher.

Walker waited until this Friday in slow-news month, August to announce he is appointing Inglett's replacement, Chad Landes, who did not sign the Recall Walker petition.

"This is absolute McCarthyism. It's the very definition of it," Sen Jon Erpenbach (D-Middleton) said in June. "No legislator and no governor should make the litmus test did you sign or didn't you sign. ... The question is whether or not you are qualified to do the job."

Walker denied being involved in his appointing Inglett in the first place, but Walker then changed his mind and denied being involved in changing his mind either.

"Again, I wasn't involved in that directly. In the interest of not pulling him (Inglett) through the details on this, we withdrew the nomination," Walker said in June.

Walker also said: "We've got plenty of other good candidates and we're not going to get into specifics about it. I'm not going to comment one way or the other." (Scott Bauer. AP)

Actually, Inglett publicly asked Walker for an explanation of details and specifics.

"I feel like it's a public attack on my character," Inglett told The Associated Press, referring to the withdrawn appointment.

Inglett's signing of the Recall Walker petition, and Walker's decision to rescind his nomination that Walker said he was not involved in, was first reported by RightWisconsin.

Other Scott Walker News

The Wisconsin public does not know where Walker is today as Walker keeps his public schedule private, but Walker announced he has stacked the Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission with new GOP anti-worker appointees. 

In related news, Shelby Sebens reports this week Scott Walker, will be taking his message to Seattle in early September. Sebens reports:

Walker will be in Seattle on Sept. 5 to speak at the Washington Policy Center's awards dinner, according to a press release from the conservative, free-market think tank. He will be touting his new book, 'Unintimidated: A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge.' 

The Washington Policy Center is a rightiwng think-tank heavily supported by the health insurance industry, hedge funds and moneyed interests hostile to Medicare and Social Security.

Nieman Foundation: Walker, GOP Legislature Threaten Wisconsin's Tradition of Innovation

Magda Konieczna, has a piece out on Scott Walker and the GOP's political war against another of Wisconsin's cherished traditions, innovation at the great state of University of Wisconsin-Madison, for now directed at journalistic innovation.

Writes Konieczna:

The Wisconsin state legislature’s attempt last week to evict the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from the campus on which it operates poses a threat to one hopeful model for the future of journalism, and suggests that a long history of journalistic innovation at American universities may be in trouble.

Walker has taken a lot of hits for being petty and vindictive in using the state budget as a tool for to punish what Walker believes is a politically incorrect institution.

The GOP's including items in the state budget forbidding the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from using UW-Madison facilities looks like the start of a war against Wisconsin's great public university system, a stronghold of anti-Walker political sentiment.

The attack on the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism follows Walker's withdrawing the appointment of Joshua Inglett to the UW System Board of Regents after Walker found out Inglett signed a Recall Walker petition to show support for his mother who is a substitute teacher.

The new litmus test in Wisconsin among Republicans and the Tea Party is:  "did you sign or didn't you sign" the recall Walker petition; 930,000 people in Wisconsin did sign the recall, roughly one out of every nine out of Wisconsin's population of an estimated 5,726,398 people.

Incredibly, Walker now says wasn't involved in his decision to withdraw his nomination of Inglett.


"Again, I wasn't involved in that directly. In the interest of not pulling him through the details on this, we withdrew the nomination," Walker said.

Corruption and Political Terror

There is one area of concern in the United States that is shared across the political spectrum.

This is of course that the other guys' political operation—in public office and in the political campaign—is out to screw you.

For example, there is a striking correlation between one's view of the NSA Surveillance programs, and who happens to be in elected office, as Glenn Greenwald points out in today's piece in The Guardian.

Greenwald notes that most people are fine with a super-surveillance state as long as the political opposition is not in power.

Wisconsin used to be different. A hint of corruption, and a public office holder was out.

Now, in Wisconsin, with the rise of Scott Walker and the Republican Party, corruption is now just a way of doing business.

Few doubt the proposition that Scott Walker is sufficiently corrupt, petty and vindictive to use the machinery of government to screw his political opponents and help cronies and allies, like at Walker's Dept of Natural Resources. Few doubt this, but the GOP cronies think this is fine.

The worst fears about political corruption are coming true in Wisconsin; and someone of Walker's character and limited abilities not surprisingly hides from the people of Wisconsin.

Talk about NSA total awareness, lots of folks would like an analysis of the metadata of every phone number and e-mail used by the Wisconsin Governor's office and Scott Walker's campaign, the Wisconsin Dept of Justice (with the corrupt J.B. Van Hollen up for reelection in 2014 along with Walker), and the Wisconsin Dept of Revenue.

Run the analyses and see what comes up where clustering and corruption occurs in the Walker networking across state government and special interests.

With an inadequate personality type like Scott Walker's, one can substitute virtually any state government agency where the GOP holds sway.

Walker is capable of anything, not bound by ethics or a dedication to the public good. And he has his hands out to anyone who will pay to play.

So petty is Walker, this guy even went after a college kid he appointed to the UW System Board of Regents, after Walker learned the kid had signed a recall Walker petition in 2011.

The college student did not even vote in the election, Patrick Marley and Karen Herzog report.

In fact, the former appointee signed the Recall Walker petition because his mother is a part-time teacher, so he wanted to show his mother some soldiarity. Report Marley and Herzog:

"Joshua Inglett, the University of Wisconsin-Platteville engineering student, did not vote in the actual recall election … Inglett, 20, on Thursday said he signed the petition outside a department store as a show of support for his mom, who at the time was a substitute teacher."

As future revelations about Scott Walker corruption come out, no one should be surprised.

Trust me, you hear lots more.

Scott Walker withdraws appointment of student regent who signed recall

Scott Walker—Lightweight to the end

Karen Herzog of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports, "Gov. Scott Walker has withdrawn his appointment of a University of Wisconsin-Platteville student to the UW System's Board of Regents — a student who signed a petition calling for a recall election of the governor two years ago."

The appointment was made this last Monday, and rescinded days later after Walker apparently learned Joshua Inglett signed the Recall Scott Walker petition.

Anyone wondering, not many in Wisconsin are anymore, how low Scott Walker can go ought to stop wondering.

Walker is the most petty governor Wisconsin has seen.

What's next, using the Wisconsin Dept of Revenue against political opponents?

Don't be surprised.

Meanwhile, Scott Walker remains in hiding, perhaps penning letters to his jailed former staff members like Tim Russell.