Holiest Of Cows: Scott Walkers Big, Fat Lie Exposed for All to See

[kpete]

FitzWalkerKochStan Governor Scott Walker has been whining for months now about all that "outside money" flooding in to defeat him during the recall. No matter what the RW venue or traditional media, he's been repeating that lie everywhere virtually every time he makes a statement.

It's a lie.

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Starting today, the conservative leaning Milwaukee Journal Sentinel went online with an interactive page on donations for the recalls. It's worth a trip to see the map of where the money is coming from. The darker the state, the large the contributions that have been received.
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/dataondemand/140931763.html

DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF WISCONSIN
TOTAL FUNDS RAISED
$1,689,463

AVERAGE SIZE OF CONTRIBUTION
$85

vs.

FRIENDS OF SCOTT WALKER
TOTAL FUNDS RAISED
$12,173,840

AVERAGE SIZE OF CONTRIBUTION
$133

For Walker, note the number of states where donations of $250,000 or more have come from.

For Friends of Scott Walker (Walkers campaign), > $250,000 have come from:

California $ 321,236
Texas $1,081,652
Minnesota $ 300,494
Missouri $ 923,216
Illinois $ 611,570
Florida $ 301,262
New York $ 272,607
Wisconsin $6,090,258

interactive maps/charts here:
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/dataondemand/140931763.html
more here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/09/1081894/-Scott-Walkers-Big-Fat-Lie-Exposed-for-All-to-See

[SheilaT]

1. I do hope that will be well publicized

by the Democratic party during this election.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

2. Conservative Newspaper Report. Make this go viral.

The chart and dollar amounts are from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, a conservative newspaper.

Even Walker's "friends" know he lies every time he opens his mouth.

[lastlib]

3. A repuglican lying--it's what they do.

A republican telling the truth--now THAT's news!

[lark]

6. Beat me to it

All Repugs do is lie and lie and lie and lie and lie. They all get together, agree one a big lie and all repeat it, including their paid media, Faux, and WSJ. A lie repeated often enough, in print and on TV and radio, comes to be considered "conventional wisdom". For example - raising taxes hurts the job creators. It's pure BS and turns the truth upside down, but is now considerd "truth" by most.

[beac]

4. K&R! Needs to be seen far and wide! n/t

[abelenkpe]

5. K&R nt

[Archae]

7. Bob Perry in Texas gave $500,000 to Walker.

I've read horror stories about Perry-built houses.

http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/03/02/2009758/jury-awards-58-million-to-mansfield.html

[progressoid]

8. The lies notwithstanding, what about the numbers.

$1,689,463 -vs- $12,173,840

Ouch.

[hfojvt]

9. ouch, that is pretty sad

He's gonna outspend us by 10 to 1. He has 90,000 donors to our 19,000. Is it just because his supporters come from the top 20% and have so much more disposable income? In 2008, Obama got 1.6 million votes. If just half of them eaxh gave $10, that would be $8 million. We cannot even do that?

[NAO]

10. Now THAT'S journalism

refreshing for a change.