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dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
Fri Feb 21, 2014, 01:43 PM Feb 2014

First Christie, now Walker.....



Snip...Walker’s (Presidential) prospects took a blow this week with the release of more than 27,000 emails held by his one-time deputy chief of staff, Kelly Rindfleisch.
One, forwarded from Walker’s ex-chief of staff, Thomas Nardelli to Rindfleisch – his deputy – is a joke about an African American “negro” who discovers he is a minority in other ways. “I can handle being a black, disabled, one armed, drug-addicted Jewish homosexual,” the email says, “but please, oh dear God, don’t make me a Democrat”.

Another, sent to Rindfleisch from someone outside Walker’s staff, joked that welfare recipients were “mixed in color, unemployed, lazy, can’t speak English and have no frigging clue who the r [sic] Daddys [sic] are”.

“That is hilarious,” Walker’s deputy chief of staff replied. “And so true!”

The emails, which date back to 2010 when Walker was Milwaukee county executive, were part of huge tranche collated in an investigation into campaign financing which closed last year. Walker was not charged with any wrongdoing – indeed, investigators said he was never the target – but the inquiry did lead to convictions of six former aides, including Rindfleisch.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/21/republican-scott-walker-potential-fallout-leaked-emails

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First Christie, now Walker..... (Original Post) dixiegrrrrl Feb 2014 OP
Here in Wisconsin, when Walker's base sees the racism, they cheer and fire guns in the air. Scuba Feb 2014 #1
Ha ha. It is to laugh at Racism. Octafish Feb 2014 #2
My, what an....interesting...picture. dixiegrrrrl Feb 2014 #3
Jebthro's waiting for all the smoke to clear... Octafish Feb 2014 #4
 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
1. Here in Wisconsin, when Walker's base sees the racism, they cheer and fire guns in the air.
Fri Feb 21, 2014, 01:53 PM
Feb 2014

He will be re-elected in November, with a slightly bigger margin than when he won the recall attempt.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
4. Jebthro's waiting for all the smoke to clear...
Fri Feb 21, 2014, 03:39 PM
Feb 2014

...and all the bodies to fall.



Cackler may have the biggest head in the room, but will he settle for commish?

With Chistie and Walker and soon idiot Paul out of the way, done in by their own words'n'deeds as much as Rove, all the stars will line up for the next installment of the New World Oiler.

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