Wisconsin
Related: About this forumMeet Walker’s New Political Hit Women
Here is a glimpse of the kind of people Walker and the Republicans are bringing to our state. At least they will leave when their vile work is done and they've been paid for their services...
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If you happen to see Jocelyn Webster and Ciara Matthews out and about in Madison, please ask them to leave our state. We reached our "slime" quota many months ago.
"As Wisconsins recall elections approach, Republican Governor Scott Walker has enlisted an eyebrow-raising pair of well-connected, out-of-state political operators to sell his administration's policies and promote his reelection. Of the two young women, one cut her teeth with Karl Rove and the other promoting anti-abortion causes and working with Tea Party favorite Sharon Angle....
...Webster is no cheesehead. She was most recently in Dallas, Texas, working government relations for the global convenience store chain 7-Eleven. Previously, she worked four months for New Jersey governor Chris Christie's PR shop. For nine months before that she pushed press inside the Beltway on education policy in the 2008 election year. She also worked PR for New Yorker Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign....
...After graduating from college in California, Webster got a gig at the new Department of Homeland Security as a liaison to the George W. Bush White House. After six months, she moved to the White House and became a staffer in the Office of Political Affairs (OPA) in February 2006. OPA was overseen by Karl Rove and was reportedly tasked with tracking the political environment. A three-year investigation into OPA concluded in January 2011 with a report showing the office routinely violated the Hatch Act, a federal law prohibiting the use of taxpayer dollars for partisan political activities...."
Article is well worth reading:
http://www.alternet.org/story/153979/meet_gov._scott_walker%E2%80%99s_new_political_hit_women?page=entire
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)of salvaging Walker's chances. Must not have been anyone left in Waukesha County to draft for the job
lutefisk
(3,974 posts)And Walker really sees himself as more of a National figure, anyway.
Viking12
(6,012 posts)Fits in the same mold as Michele Bachmann, Callista Gingrich, Cindy McCain, etc...
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Really makes ya wonder what they drug them with.