On prank call, Wis. governor discusses strategy - Yahoo! News

MADISON, Wis. – On a prank call that quickly spread across the Internet, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was duped into discussing his strategy to cripple public employee unions, promising never to give in and joking that he would use a baseball bat in his office to go after political opponents.

Walker believed the caller was a conservative billionaire named David Koch, but it was actually the editor of a liberal online newspaper. The two talked for at least 20 minutes — a conversation in which the governor described several potential ways to pressure Democrats to return to the Statehouse and revealed that his supporters had considered secretly planting people in pro-union protest crowds to stir up trouble.

The call, which surfaced Wednesday, also showed Walker's cozy relationship with two billionaire brothers who have poured millions of dollars into conservative political causes, including Walker's campaign last year.

Walker compared his stand to that taken by President Ronald Reagan when he fired the nation's air-traffic controllers during a labor dispute in 1981.

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Associated Press Writer Scott Bauer contributed to this report.

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If this is true - ... "The things I said are the things I've said publicly all the time." - Governor Walker has discovered the key to working transparency. If what one says in private is simply a casual version of what one says in public, there's no need to worry what people might find out. A major problem with that in our society is that there are things about which one seemingly *must* be duplicitous thanks to an overabundance of laws, regulations, and religious traditions which have become secular, all of which set up a culture in which it becomes easier with each lie to tell another and soon people have forgotten that we mostly want to be truthful, if only because it's easiest.

 

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