Wisconsin’s Walker Now Shares with Christie Unwelcome Attention
By Tim Jones and John McCormick Feb 20, 2014 12:00 AM ET
Scott Walker’s status as a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate was growing as New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s was sinking amid the furor raised by politically motivated lane closings and traffic jams.
Now Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, is bedeviled by home-grown trouble that could complicate a 2016 White House bid, as well as his own November re-election race. The turmoil buffeting him includes the release yesterday of e-mails from a corruption investigation involving his former elected post.
The probe that looked into conduct by employees of the Milwaukee County executive office, the job Walker held before he won the governorship in 2010, also has grown into a second investigation of possible campaign-law violations during his successful 2012 defense against a recall.
Walker faced no charges in the first investigation, even as six former aides and allies were convicted last year for illegal campaign activity and theft. Still, the release of tens of thousands of e-mails from that probe may cause embarrassment for him -- or worse.
“The irony is that as Walker has benefited from Chris Christie’s problems” linked to the New Jersey traffic snarl allies set in motion, “now he’s in a position that e-mails from his staff make them look pretty insensitive,” said Charles Franklin, director of the Marquette Law School Poll in Milwaukee.
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What if this is GOP 'natural selection' to ensure that Jebby Bush is the only candidate standing for the primaries?
