Newly disclosed emails reveal racist jokes by Scott Walker's ex-aides

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Journal Sentinel

Newly disclosed emails reveal racist jokes by Scott Walker's ex-aides
By Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel
Feb. 20, 2014 9:33 a.m.

Madison — Even while arguing for racial outreach from his party, Gov. Scott Walker has had to deal with recent disclosures of racially charged statements from aides, with the latest two examples coming Wednesday in a massive dump of unsealed court documents.

Walker won county executive races in racially diverse Milwaukee County and once called out race-baiter David Duke for his divisive comments. But recent months have revealed embarrassing missteps by aides touching on the most provocative of racial stereotypes.

The issue takes on added significance as Walker is increasingly floated as a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2016 — a race that the GOP candidate will struggle to win without making inroads with minorities.
Unlike past cases, the newest examples coming to light Wednesday in the unsealed documents involved close aides to Walker who served as his No. 2 and No. 3 officials while he served as Milwaukee County executive.

In April 2010, Walker's former deputy chief of staff Kelly Rindfleisch received an emailed joke from a friend about someone whose dogs supposedly qualified for welfare because they are "mixed in color, unemployed, lazy, can't speak English and have no frigging clue who their Daddys are."






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[WovenGems]

1. No shock at all n/t

[gopiscrap]

2. I have come to the conclusion

that all repukes are nothing but POS's

[gordianot]

3. Correct, those few who are not leave the Party when they gain a conscience.

....and even they should not be trusted.

[gopiscrap]

4. agreed

[jsr]

5. People who voted for Scott Walker should go drown themselves

[heaven05]

6. yep

no surprise here. People making these jokes? Disgusting people. No worth at all in my book. Stupid also.

[cosmicone]

7. No surprise

Republican party has increasingly become the party of ignorant, undereducated, racist, hyperreligious, violent christian white males above 40.

They see everyone else as beneath them.

[bemildred]

8. Heavens to Betsy. nt

[groundloop]

9. Obviously Scott Walker fired his aides the instant he heard of this...

That's why they're his ex-aides, right?
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I'd actually say it's more like a case of "birds of a feather...."

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

10. I keep wondering, why all those people voted for him?

[MillennialDem]

12. low turnout / offyear elections

[Jack Rabbit]

11. Here in California in the eighties, Governor Pete Wilson called out David Duke

Wilson did this while pushing Prop 187, which barred illegal immigrants from public services. Duke came to California to campaign for the measure.

Wilson also had strong words for Pat Buchanan. Wilson was very good at trash talking Republican extremists out of one end of his mouth and sounding just like them out of the other.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

14. Pete Wilson, ultra right wing, racist, old boy network, mayor from San Diego.

We suffered under his terms..

[dawn frenzy adams]

13. Well!

If you look at David Duke's attempts to achieve public office- from 1988 to 1992, if you are aware of his ideology before running for office, the Republican Party mirrors it exactly. The White supremacist movement has always been anti-abortion, anti gay, anti-welfare, pro business movement. That's why the establishment needs them.

[denverbill]

15. Wow, I was going to say that receiving a racist email is no big deal.

And it isn't. I've received them and generally 'reply all' with a reply that makes the sender look like the complete asshole that they are.

The replies that these people sent leave no doubt of their bigotry.

And I'd bet you $100 they all claim not to be racist if you ask them.

[butterfly77]

16. Kick...