You know election season is just around the corner when failed Presidential candidate and continually failing Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker goes into what I like to call “silent campaign mode”.
First of all, he goes silent. He doesn’t want to remind people of his fumblings, failings, and broken promises. He also doesn’t want to remind people that he's a moron except for politics which consume 100% of whatever brain cells function.
He only holds events on positive things like bill signings or things like the (wait for it to go boom on the state’s economy and taxpayers) FoxConn deal and does nothing to piss anyone off. He does all of his lethal budget cutting and insane legislation in the year after he’s elected when he doesn’t care about press or pushback. He’s got plenty of time for voters to forget and to lull them back to the ballot box to vote for him again. Just. Not. Now. It’s the start of election season, voters have had time to forget, and it’s time to start his ”unofficial” campaign.
Second, he drags out his (no longer) Very Secret Army of Dark Money Groups to start off the Big Show with absolutely glowing ads about him. They’re so positive, I'm amazed they don't feature a halo over his head. Since he doesn’t yet have an opponent for them to trash, these are the only positive ads they’ll be doing. They’ll just pile up the dirt for slinging later.
Americans for Prosperity is playing such an ad statewide. Grab your barfbag and BS deflecter — here it is.
Naturally, if you view this on You Tube, comments are “disabled”. They don’t want any truth to interfere with their enormous pile of bullshit.
Creating jobs? Lie. He promised 250,000 jobs in his first term. He’s had nearly 8 years now and he’s not even close.
Raising salaries and wages? A whopping big lie. Wisconsin is now a pitiful Right to Work (for less) state. No unions negotiating pay increases. You get what the boss wants to pay you.
Cut taxes $4.7 billion? Sure, if you don’t mention his massive borrowing, squeezing money out of local areas, stagnating wages, taking massive amounts of money out of education, and the fact that are roads are so falling apart that many places have down-converted to gravel roads because they can’t fix the ones they have. And those tax cuts went right into the pockets of Walkers’ donors — the 1% and corporations — who reap so much from their “investment” in him.
Balanced the budget? Forgetting about Walkers’ massive borrowing, union busting so he can bleed government employees dry, and continual cuts to social services and education?
Providing more money to our children and our schools? Are they kidding? How effing dumb do they think we are? School “fees” went up sharply and many programs not involved with Readin’ Ritin” and Rithmetic are now gone.
Yes, according to the ad we’re supposed to be thanking Scott Walker for all the blessings and fairy dust he’s been sprinkling on us. I’m almost surprised it doesn’t include a leprechaun riding a unicorn to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
The sad truth is that his schtick works because our media doesn’t inform our citizens. They’re corporate owned and controlled and while there’s still a penny of tax cuts yet to be bestowed on them, they’ll stand with Walker.
I won’t thank him for ruining my state, virtually destroying public education, decimating our once nationally acclaimed University system, impoverishing local communities, taking away health care from poor people and their children, selling our environmental quality to the highest bidder, taking money from regular folks to give to the rich, “loaning” money to business then conveniently forgetting about the loan, for enabling the gun nuts in a huge way, and for many other things.
He’s a cold blooded, vicious, vindictive, callous, and calculating man whose only interest is himself and his own advancement. An old joke told around our Capitol when he was an Assembly rep was that the best way to avoid injury was to get out of Scott Walkers’ path to the nearest TV camera.
It’s still true.