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Micki Maynard · Wisconsin’s Embattled Governor Gets a Pep Talk
January 23rd, 2012
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker
Wisconsin’s Republican governor, Scott Walker might have preferred to forget last week, when a truck filled with more than 1 million recall signatures showed up in Madison. But over the weekend, Walker got a pep talk from one of the state’s most fiery orators.
Former governor Tommy Thompson, a Republican who is running for the United States Senate, threw his enthusiastic support behind Walker and his efforts to curb collective bargaining rights for public employees, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported.
His pro-Walker comments came at a rally in Wauwatosa.
According to the paper,
“In the middle of the speech, Thompson took off his blue sportcoat to reveal a red Wisconsin coat with a large W. “We are a red state and we are not going to let them take it back to a blue state,” Thompson said.
“We are Wisconsin. We are Republicans. We’re taking our state back. The only thing better than Scott Walker winning the first time is Scott Walker winning the second time. We are going to show them once and for all that we are for real and we are not going back.”
Thompson concluded, “W is for Win, W is for Walker and W is for Wisconsin.”
Meanwhile, the Wisconsin Web Cam, showing state accountability board staffers verifying the petition signatures, is getting bigger than ever. Its parody Twitter account now has 1,201 followers (although it’s still only following the Reverend Al Sharpton).
Signature verification in Wisconsin becomes a Web darling.
If you checked it out last week, here’s an explanation of what those staffers are doing.
