Candidates running for political office claiming mandate from supernatural-religious forces typically are not widely found in classical liberal America outside of the Bible Belt and rural sectors of the states.
Scott Walker is an outlier, a product of segregationist white suburbia of the greater Milwaukee urban region and its toxic racial politics (Mal Contends) (MacGillis, The New Republic).
An authoritarian and vindictive lifelong politician, Walker's claim of the Almighty's blessing ought to alarm Americans. Racism and God do not equate with a pluralistic America.
Check out Scott Walker tells supporters: ‘I am certain’ my 2016 presidential run ‘is God’s plan for me,’ (Dolan, Raw Story). [Originally reported in RightWingWatch by Peter Montgomery.]
This is a 10-alarm fire.
Showing posts with label Scott Walker racist emails. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scott Walker racist emails. Show all posts
Jul 14, 2015
May 17, 2015
Housing Apartheid Blasted—Segregation, Racism Produced Scott Walker
The New York Times has an editorial implying not much has changed in the last five decades in the dedication of white American racists perpetrating segregated housing.
Worth noting is Wisconsin's Scott Walker is a political product of the virulent racism of the greater Milwaukee urban region, as GOP appeals to racism accelerate. (MacGillis, TNR) (Mal Contends)
As a lifelong resident of Wisconsin, I would alert readers a race riot this summer is a distinct possibility, as Milwaukee police remain a largely Republican and vile brand, and white Republican hate radio and Scott Walker drum up racist taunts almost daily.
Notes the Times:
Could be a really fun summer in Milwaukee this year, but residents contacted say the possibility of violence against white racists as openly racist whites inflame the region is just assumed a part of living in the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Worth noting is Wisconsin's Scott Walker is a political product of the virulent racism of the greater Milwaukee urban region, as GOP appeals to racism accelerate. (MacGillis, TNR) (Mal Contends)
As a lifelong resident of Wisconsin, I would alert readers a race riot this summer is a distinct possibility, as Milwaukee police remain a largely Republican and vile brand, and white Republican hate radio and Scott Walker drum up racist taunts almost daily.
Notes the Times:
[R]age and unrest was thoroughly explained five decades ago by President Lyndon Johnson’s National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the Kerner Commission. The commission’s report was released in 1968 — the year that the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. touched off riots in 125 cities — and contains the most candid indictment of racism and segregation seen in such a document, before or since.
The commission told white Americans what black citizens already knew: that the country was 'moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal.' It linked the devastating riots that consumed Detroit and Newark in 1967 to residential segregation that had been sustained and made worse by federal policies that concentrated poor black citizens in ghettos. It also said that discrimination and segregation had become a threat to 'the future of every American.'
Could be a really fun summer in Milwaukee this year, but residents contacted say the possibility of violence against white racists as openly racist whites inflame the region is just assumed a part of living in the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Jun 18, 2014
Milwaukee Hate Radio, Segregation and Scott Walker Exposed
In the lede for The New Republic cover piece entitled, The Unelectable Whiteness of Scott Walker, Milwaukee hate radio personality, Mark Belling is featured in this fact-laden piece that Republicans fear and loathe more than even a young, black man walking down the street.
Alec MacGillis' piece is supported with facts, data and analysis that presents to the nation the greater Milwaukee urban segregation and race baiting that have been the bain of Wisconsin politics for decades.
Another one of the hate radio stars featured in the piece is Charlie Sykes who retorts that MacGillis simply wrote a hit piece, a "heavy stew of urban legend, reheated unionista talking points, cherry-picked anecdotes and the usual journalistic hackery."
Alright, following is one ingredient featured from the heavy stew of urban legend that Sykes implied never actually happened in which Belling mocks Wisconsin's first African-American member of Congress, Gwen Moore: "Gwen Moore simply occupies a seat. A very large seat. ... The woman is so fat and out of shape, she literally can’t get to the floor to vote anymore. ... It’s time to vote and here’s Gwen: ‘I’m out of breath! Blew-ee, blew-ee!’ (Here Belling affected the exertions of an overweight black woman.)" Typical Belling, make up your own mind if it's toxic and racist.
Alec MacGillis' piece is supported with facts, data and analysis that presents to the nation the greater Milwaukee urban segregation and race baiting that have been the bain of Wisconsin politics for decades.
Another one of the hate radio stars featured in the piece is Charlie Sykes who retorts that MacGillis simply wrote a hit piece, a "heavy stew of urban legend, reheated unionista talking points, cherry-picked anecdotes and the usual journalistic hackery."
Alright, following is one ingredient featured from the heavy stew of urban legend that Sykes implied never actually happened in which Belling mocks Wisconsin's first African-American member of Congress, Gwen Moore: "Gwen Moore simply occupies a seat. A very large seat. ... The woman is so fat and out of shape, she literally can’t get to the floor to vote anymore. ... It’s time to vote and here’s Gwen: ‘I’m out of breath! Blew-ee, blew-ee!’ (Here Belling affected the exertions of an overweight black woman.)" Typical Belling, make up your own mind if it's toxic and racist.
Jun 17, 2014
White Wisconsin Racists Prefer the Term, 'Articulate Conservative'
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| Scott Walker on cover of The New Republic |
Scott Walker calling someone out more often? Maybe at his next unscripted town hall meeting, the fact that Scott Walker refuses such events of no relevancy to Wisconsin Republicans.
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White Wisconsin reacts to Alec MacGillis' The New Republic piece on Scott Walker and racism with disbelief and denial
MacGillis has reported on racism in the greater Milwaukee urban area, in Scott Walker's campaign, in Milwaukee hate radio, all furthered by massive infusions of Koch and other rightwing money.
Republicans are shocked to the point of disbelief. Actually, they deny the facts or insipid accusations.
Dan O'Donnell of WISN sets everyone straight: "This stupidity is as inaccurate as it is insipid. Walker won in 2010 because he presented a clearer and more articulate conservative message in the primary and then relatively easily defeated Tom Barrett in the general election because of widespread distaste for liberalism as it existed under eight years of Governor Doyle and a little over a year of President Obama (and his stunningly unpopular health care reform)."
MacGillis, damn east coast type, coming over to our side of the country and telling everyone that Washington, Ozaukee and Waukesha counties are racist and segregated from Milwaukee.
Charlie Sykes of White Wisconsin offers this reaction at WTMJ:
"As hit jobs go, this is pretty run-of-the-mill, except for its length and the fact that it is the cover story of the once-prestigious New Republic: The Unelectable Whiteness of Scott Walker: A journey through the poisonous, racially divided world that produced a Republican star."
The unsubtlety of the headline pretty much gives you the feel for this over-the-top and meandering trip through the fever swamps of anti-Walkerism. Suffice it to say that writer Alec MacGillis establishes that he has frequented every anti-Walker website and twitter feed... and has fed deeply. His article is a heavy stew of urban legend, reheated unionista talking points, cherry-picked anecdotes and the usual journalistic hackery."
Well, I'm glad that's cleared up. For a moment I had thought that attacks on voting rights and racist jokes, and attacks on the city of Milwaukee are per se racist acts.
One thing Sykes knows is how to be subtle when discussing them.
MacGillis also implies Scott Walker can't think on his feet. From the white perspective, I guess MacGillis missed all those unscripted town hall question-and-answer sessions.
On the other hand the fact that Scott Walker refuses unscripted town hall question-and-answer sessions might suggest something about the candidate chosen by God to lead Wisconsin, America, who knows where Walker can go with his articulate conservative message.
Jun 16, 2014
Scott Walker Gets Skewered in The New Republic
The notion that Scott Walker is a presidential pretender, a small-time provincial riding vile bigotries as a vehicle up the Wisconsin Republican Party is gaining increasing currency.
Alec MacGillis has the most perceptive analysis I've seen in the national political press in today's The New Republic: The Unelectable Whiteness of Scott Walker, A journey through the poisonous, racially divided world that produced a Republican.
Existing racism in the greater Milwaukee region and a life steeped in religious fundamentalism made Scott Walker, not constrained or repulsed by open displays of bigotry against "wetback" and African American voters.
Rather, Walker dives into bigotry as a siren call for his launching pad as a toady of the Koch brothers and billionaires' from whom Walker takes his orders.
The February release of emails from Walker's secret and illegal political operation run of the Milwaukee County Executive's office has exposed Walker as a deceitful operator who for over a decade has surrounded himself with a group of people, his top staff, who resemble nothing so much as a bunch of racists, anti-Semites and hicks. (The Progressive, February 19, 2014)
MacGillis' piece is a must-read, and the most comprehensive yet chronicling Scott Walker and the dangerous hate mongering games Walker plays.
Alec MacGillis has the most perceptive analysis I've seen in the national political press in today's The New Republic: The Unelectable Whiteness of Scott Walker, A journey through the poisonous, racially divided world that produced a Republican.
Existing racism in the greater Milwaukee region and a life steeped in religious fundamentalism made Scott Walker, not constrained or repulsed by open displays of bigotry against "wetback" and African American voters.
Rather, Walker dives into bigotry as a siren call for his launching pad as a toady of the Koch brothers and billionaires' from whom Walker takes his orders.
The February release of emails from Walker's secret and illegal political operation run of the Milwaukee County Executive's office has exposed Walker as a deceitful operator who for over a decade has surrounded himself with a group of people, his top staff, who resemble nothing so much as a bunch of racists, anti-Semites and hicks. (The Progressive, February 19, 2014)
MacGillis' piece is a must-read, and the most comprehensive yet chronicling Scott Walker and the dangerous hate mongering games Walker plays.
Feb 19, 2014
Scott Walker Is Naked to the World—Deceitful and Premeditatedly Criminal
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| Watching Scotty Blow - Esquire Photo Illustration by DonkeyHotey via Flickr/Special to The Politics Blog |
Scott Walker is every bit the Tea Bagger and corrupt bigot so many Wisconsin folks have long regarded him; not just a poor steward of the economy and environment, but a premeditated disaster operative—mean-spirited, petty, hateful and a crook.
"Communication between Walker's campaign and his office was 'very common,' according to a top investigator," reports Sean Sullivan in the Washington Post, in violation of Wisconsin law.
New pieces in Mother Jones, Blogging Blue, The Nation, Democurmungeon, The Political Environment, The Progressive, Slate, Uppity Wisconsin, Isthmus, Caffeinated Politics, The New York Times, Milwaukee Shepherd-Express and of course Charles P. Pierce at Esquire. A second racist email has also been reported in Buzzfeed.
That repulsive bigotry is common in the culture of Scott Walker intimates is no big surprise; this is a guy whose personal friends and appointees embezzle from military veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, but hate has a way of continuing to shock the conscience.
Also, breaking is news that Scott Walker's mining terrorirst friend, Gtac's Bill Williams has been indicted in Spain for willful poisoning and breaking of environmental regulations. And the Bad River Band Asks EPA to Stop All Mining Activity in Penokees, a crucial first step in the mandatory analysis of Native American treaty rights.
From Uppity Wisconsin comes an email authored by Scott Walker on the secret e-mail system directing that this illegal medium be used for an official statement:
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Scott Walker himself urging the use of non-official accounts to coordinate a
campaign statement #WalkerDocs |
Newly-released e-mails show that the Wisconsin governor may have more of a Chris Christie problem than even Chris Christie. Ruth Conniff and MSNBC have great video on the fall of a sleaze.
Scott Walker Was Center of Secret, Illegal Emails with Racist, Anti-Semitic Slurs
Racist email surfaces written by Scott Walker's former chief-of-staff, Thomas Nardelli to convicted felon and Walker aide, Kelly Reinfliesch - see e-mail at bottom - shows Walker's top staff as resembling nothing so much as a bunch a provincial racists, anti-Semites and hicks.
"Besides being black, Jewish, disabled a fairy with a Mexican boyfriend, a drug addict, HIV positive, bald, orphaned, unemployed, an invalid with one hand and having a bad heart, I live in a crappy neighborhood ... ." Via The ProgressiveI read this garbage, and I can say that I read the end of Scott Walker's political career.
Readers can download sordid emails from Scott Walker's inner circle. This is the man who says he represents Wisconsin: Download the files for yourself (WalkerDocs 1 | WalkerDocs 2).
The sifting and winnowing of the Scott Walker-office secret e-mails has just begun and Scott Walker's campaign is already heavily implicated and its true vile colors are there for the world to see.
As a corollary, Scott Walker lied repeatedly about the whole set-up for years.
The e-mail show Walker and his top aides running his gubernatorial campaign out of the Milwaukee County Executive's office where the illegal email system was located.
Story is breaking hard now; see:
From The Progressive:
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