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WI_DEM

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Fri Jun 1, 2012, 12:05 PM Jun 2012

Walker's Staff Campaigning at Work: Asked Paper to do a Hit Piece on Moderate Dale Schultz

An open records request from the governor's office reveals an email from Governor Walker's immunity-granted-for-doing-illegal-campaign-work-on-the-taxpayers'-dime press secretay Cullen Werwie to the independently-minded Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Politifact, where Werwie asks that they do a hit piece on moderate GOP State Senator (and former Majority Leader) Dale Schultz:

click to see e-mail:
http://www.uppitywis.org/blogarticle/govs-office-still-campaigning-work-asked-paper-do-hit-piece-mode

Now, keep in mind that this was after the mining bill had failed in the Wisconsin Senate and this is the same Schultz that Walker personally threatened to run a Tea Party candidate against if he didn't fall into line and vote for Walker's union-busting bill, Act 10. (And yes, that has been confirmed by more than one source that was in the room at the time.)

I just can't figure out what Werwie meant when he said, "The support that ultimately may matter most to Schultz-- that of his constituents"?

Ohhhh... wait... I got it! The support of Schultz's constituents will ultimately matter the most in the next election when Team Walker runs a Tea Party candidate in the primary against him!

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