Scott Walker's ruthless ambition - Ruth Conniff
Never mind CPAC. Campaign coordination got Scott Walker where he is today.
Walker tied for fifth place in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) straw poll last weekend, which was a bit of a comedown after pundits named him Flavor of the Month among the lineup of prospective Republican presidential candidates for 2016 following Chris Christie's fall from grace. But our governor still got a shout-out from Reince Priebus and Grover Norquist for his union-busting here in Wisconsin.
And let's face it, unless Rand Paul turns out to be an unlikely exception, CPAC has never picked a winner.
Staying away from CPAC kept Walker from having to dodge any more pointed questions from the national media about why he ran a secret email network in his office when he was Milwaukee county exec. And who needs CPAC anyway, when you're already the favorite of right-wing billionaires.
Politically, Walker has set himself up well. You have to hand it to him -- he's good at what he does. And what he does is advance his own political career.
What he doesn't do is create 250,000 jobs.
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...Koch-backed group's Wisconsin efforts," explained that Act 10 and the Wisconsin model for breaking unions "started back in 2007 on the shores of Lake Michigan." That's where Hilgemann and a group of 15 other right-wing activists met with then-County Executive Walker.
Norquist bragged that Walker gave him the pen he used to sign the union-busting budget "repair" bill.
All that bragging at CPAC about being involved in Wisconsin sheds a different light on what Walker has been up to.
As James Rowen noted in his blog The Political Environment: "I didn't grasp how deep the coordination had been for perhaps five years."
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