We always have a laugh any time we hear "run for president" in the same sentence as Wisconsin
Nevertheless, there has been a development in the "How much of a clueless asswhistle is Scott Walker?" story. The buzz is about 25,000 previously court-sealed emails from a former staffer for Walker when he was running for Governor as the Milwaukee County Executive:
The e-mails and other previously sealed court documents showed that there was nearly daily coordination between Walker, public employees in Walker’s county executive’s office and his campaign team in the run-up to his 2010 election as governor. The probe focused on Walker’s time as Milwaukee County executive before his 2010 election as governor and led to convictions of six former aides and allies.As Ed Kilgore sums up:
Two of Walker’s aides from that time were convicted of criminal offenses for co-mingling county and political business and Walker’s level of knowledge of those activities has long been a question.
The new documents show that it was Walker himself who directed that his county staff and campaign aides hold a daily conference call to coordinate strategy. Walker also routinely used a campaign email account to email county staffers also using private email addresses, a strategy prosecutors have said was used to shield political business from public release.
So by the time Scott Walker became county executive and was looking for higher office, the pitfalls involved in letting your publicly paid staff do campaign work were extremely well known. Whether they show criminal activity by Walker or not, those thousands of emails are embarrassing, and a living warning to potential supporters of a Walker presidential run that he may not run the tightest ship.Run, Scotty, run!
UPDATE: Charles Pierce has some bits of racist, nasty stuff from Walker's staff emails (in other words, the usual Republican slurs).
