{"id":184390,"date":"2012-05-14T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/14\/while-we-are-on-the-subject-of-scott-walker\/"},"modified":"2012-05-14T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T00:12:00","slug":"while-we-are-on-the-subject-of-scott-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/14\/while-we-are-on-the-subject-of-scott-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"While We Are On the Subject of Scott Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"

We now have video of Scott Walker telling a wealthy donor that he will use divide and conquer to make Wisconsin a right-to-work red state<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A filmmaker released a video Thursday that shows Gov. Scott Walker saying he would use “divide and conquer” as a strategy against unions.<\/p>\n

Walker made the comments to Beloit billionaire Diane Hendricks, who has since given $510,000 to the governor’s campaign – making her Walker’s single-largest donor and the largest known donor to a candidate in state history.<\/p>\n

The filmmaker has done work on Democratic campaigns and gave $100 in 2010 to Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, Walker’s challenger in the June 5 recall election.<\/p>\n

In the video shot on Jan. 18, 2011 – shortly before Walker’s controversial budget-repair bill was introduced and spawned mass protests – Hendricks asked the governor whether he could make Wisconsin a “completely red state, and work on these unions, and become a right-to-work” state. The Republican donor was referring to right-to-work laws, which prohibit private-sector unions from compelling workers to pay union dues if the workers choose not to belong to the union.<\/p>\n

Walker replied that his “first step” would be “to divide and conquer” through his budget-adjustment bill, which curtailed most collective bargaining for most public employee unions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s rather unsurprising therefore, that a number of public safety unions, like the State Troopers Union<\/a> are withdrawing their endorsements of him in 2010, and endorsing Tom Barrett. (Hereafter referred to as “The other guy”)<\/p>\n

While such rough and tumble politics may be the reality in Wisconsin, the people of the Badger State*<\/sup> tend to seem themselves as practicing a more civil form of politics.<\/p>\n