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Walker Tries to Grab Protest Sign At Iowa State Fair

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Driving home yesterday I flipped on the Devil’s Advocates Radio show to hear Dom and Crute chortling over Scott Walker trying to grab a protest sign from a Wisconsin heckler at the Iowa state fair.  Apparently, the SEIU and other activists are following him around and warning would-be supporters.   A caller said that no, it was someone in the crowd who grabbed the sign, but the Devil’s Advocates claimed they had a freeze frame with Walker’s paw on the sign.

When I got home, I scoured the net for video, but clips from most news outlets were unclear.  I finally saw it on this C-Span video on youtube at about the 12:10 mark.  First Walker tries to grab the sign, but the protester grabs it back before a Walker supporter ultimately wrests the sign from the Wisconsinite.

But the WI AFL-CIO got the best shot of Walker with the sign and from an angle that makes it easy to read the text.  Easily the best photo of the week!

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NOW Scott Walker Is Worried About Dividing the People?

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One of the titles we considered for this film was “Divide and Conquer in Wisconsin” – a reference to the bitter divisiveness Scott Walker fostered in Wisconsin beginning in his first campaign for governor in 2010. Then he cast public sector workers as “haves” and other workers as “have nots” in a cynical ploy to destroy unions through “divide and conquer.” He explicitly told one of his billionaire backers, Diane Hendricks, that this was the plan.

By the end of the Uprising relatives, friends, and neighbors were pitted against one another and in some cases no longer on speaking terms. One of our interviewees for this film, Professor Katherine Cramer (Political Science, UW-Madison), mused that it may take a generation to heal the rifts.

Suddenly, he has expressed concern about politicians pitting one group of citizens against another.  What is the issue that has caused the governor to express concern over a strategy that he himself has deployed relentlessly for years?  Equal pay for women and men!!  That’s right. Scott Walker is taking a stand for unity ON THE BACKS OF WOMEN.  Why are we not surprised.

The Center for Media and Democracy details Governor Walker’s history of pitting groups against one another in Wisconsin here.