Scott Walker moving to revoke defrocked priests' state licenses

The Associated Press reported at the Wisconsin State Journal.

"The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Friday that the priests served in the Milwaukee Archdiocese. After they were forced out, they gained state licenses to enter professions including social work, nursing, alcohol and drug counseling, and funeral home work.
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"On Thursday, Walker spokesman Tom Evenson said regulators with the state Department of Safety and Professional Services have lodged complaints against them and the governor thinks they should lose their licenses."

Governor's Prayer Breakfast yesterday

Video at WisconsinEye

"On May 5,2016, The Governor's Prayer Breakfast was held at the Italian Conference Center in Milwaukee...""

Gov Walker Signs Bills Defunding Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin!

Waukesha – Governor Walker signed two bills into law Thursday that, together, are expected to eliminate approximately $8 million in public funding from Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin (PPWI), the state’s largest abortion provider. Assembly Bill 310 redirects federal Title X family planning funds away from organizations that perform abortions to public entities including state, county, and local health departments and clinics. This will eliminate $3.5 million from PPWI. Senate Bill 238 reduces PPWI’s Medicaid reimbursement rate for contraceptive drugs, requiring that PPWI be reimbursed the actual cost they pay for these drugs and not the artificially inflated rate they are currently receiving. This will eliminate $4.5 million from PPWI.

more at Pro-Life WI

At Life's Connection in Waukesha I signed into law changes to improve women's health at noncontroversial providers pic.twitter.com/vSbl6NpkNH

— Governor Walker (@GovWalker) February 18, 2016

Gov Walker on whether Planned Parenthood measures open up state to lawsuit

I give up on fixing autoplay. You can watch here.

"We want to make sure as taxpayers whether it's state funds or federal funds that come through the state of Wisconsin that they're used in the way that's responsible and reasonable," Walker said before signing the bills, which he emphasized would withhold money to "controversial entities like Planned Parenthood."

more at JS

GREAT WORK TEAM LIFE!

via Live Action News

Scott Walker to drop out of 2016 presidential race: source

(Reuters) - Republican Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin plans to drop out of the 2016 presidential race, a Republican source familiar with the decision said on Monday, in a precipitous collapse from serious contender to poor showings in opinion polls.

Walker's campaign announced he would hold a news conference in Madison, the Wisconsin capital, at 6 p.m. ET on Monday, but it did not say what he would discuss. His campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

But a source familiar with his plans said Walker planned to exit the race for the nomination to represent the party in the November 2016 election.

continue at Yahoo

I don't know the details of who was on the campaign but they clearly failed.  To a certain extent The Donald took his clout as the rogue outsider.  I am selfishly glad we can keep him in Wisconsin, Gov. Ron Kind has a nauseating ring to it.

Ben D:

If Rick Perry and Scott Walker are the first two candidates to exit the 2016 stakes, it would mean that Republican voters have discarded two of the most successful Republican governors in this century, two men elected governor a total of six times between them, who represent a clear approach to public policy, a broad appeal across multiple ideological factions of the GOP, and have established resumes of executive leadership. Both Perry and Walker have their defects, but they also have the capacity to appeal to the concerns of both the insider and the outsider. But that’s not what Republican voters want in a nominee, and it’s not what they’re going to get.

Although not my candidate, the fact that Walker sank so low (despite major success) really does show that it's not just the politicians who bolster the Party of Stupid.   The GOP primary process just seems broken.

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5 Reasons Serious TV Debates Are Impossible

JS: Meltdown mystery: GOP voters still like Scott Walker as poll numbers near zero

Wisconsin Activists Raided By Political Enemies Win In Court Against John Doe "Investigation"

Three years ago, a group of ambitious and partisan district attorneys convened a special kind of investigation to target and punish conservatives. This week, the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that investigation was unconstitutional and unmoored from both reason and law. The legal theories underlying the Wisconsin high court’s decision are important, but before we consider them, we must recognize the human cost of this litigation and the politics that animated public officials’ attacks on conservatives for engaging in free speech.

Some district attorneys in Wisconsin were disappointed by the failure of a prior John Doe investigation to derail Wisconsin’s union reform law, incensed by the unsuccessful recall election of union-busting Gov. Scott Walker, and cognizant that Walker’s next election campaign was about to start.

Unlike the normal criminal investigative process, however, these district attorneys employed Wisconsin’s so-called John Doe law, which grants extreme power to a special investigator to compel evidence and—more importantly—keep his investigation secret from targets and from the public. Their legal theory in this case was that Walker and other candidates had illeg"ally coordinated their campaigns with outside issue-advocacy groups.

Like so many villains, the John Doe II investigators went about their dirty business under cover of darkness. Nighttime raids by SWAT-equipped police squads turned homes and lives upside down. Computers and cellphones and all the personal documents and private information contained therein were seized and thereafter withheld from their proper owners. From the outside groups, investigators demanded membership lists and financial information. For all the targeted victims, the raids and subpoenas came with a sharp, horrifying warning: tell no one.

continue at The Federalist 

Scott Walker signs fetal pain abortion ban: It sets a ‘reasonable standard’

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination, signed a bill today barring abortions on unborn babies capable of feeling pain.

"For people, regardless of where they might stand, when an unborn child can feel pain I think most people feel it's appropriate to protect that child," the governor said.

A child's ability to feel pain constitutes a "reasonable standard" for the state to offer protection.

"At five months, that's the time when that unborn child can feel pain," he added. "When an unborn child can feel pain, we should be protecting that child."

The measure would disallow abortions after 20 weeks except to save the mother's life or if she would suffer major, irreparable physical harm within the next 24 hours.

Abortions outside that criteria would be classified as felonies carrying a maximum sentence of three-and-a-half years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

continue at LifeSite 

UK Daily Mail does exposè on Scott Walker family support for gay marriage

This is Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, pictured at the wedding reception of one of the first gay couples to marry in his state – who told Daily Mail Online today that they do not believe the presidential hopeful is against same-sex marriage.

He smiled with the newlyweds at their reception, which came weeks after a judge struck down an amendment to the state constitution defining marriage as between a man and a woman - a move the governor vowed to overturn.

On June 6, 2014, a federal judge ruled in favor of a lawsuit challenging a 2006 amendment to Wisconsin's constitution, after a public vote, which defined marriage as between one man and one woman.

U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb said Wisconsin's ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, prompting a rush of same-sex couples getting wedding licenses.

Among the first to marry were Shelli Marquardt and Cathy Priem who married on June 9 at a civil courthouse ceremony in Waukesha County.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3154884/Scott-Walker-NOT-against-gay-marriage-say-sex-friends-GOP-hopeful-guest-joyous-wedding-reception-despite-pledge-amend-constitution-one-man-one-woman.html#ixzz3fW29dXeg
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Haven't had time to read through the whole think, but the article is extensive.

If I were on the Scott Walker campaign(wherein I only care about winning the election), I would have intentionally planted this story to improve Walker's "elect-ability."

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Scott Walker Drafts a Home-Schooled Army

When Scott Walker talks about education—whether he’s in the parking lot of Office Products Co. in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, or on stage at Disney World in front of deep-pocketed, business-friendly donors—he mentions home schooling.

Perhaps more than any other 2016er, Walker is consistent and vocal in acknowledging that home schooling is a valid form of education—and this support could pay huge political dividends in the Republican primary.

He mentioned it in his 2015 budget address, in his 2014 State of the State speech, in his 2015 inaugural address, and all over the campaign trail, as well as at Governor Rick Scott’s invite-only event in Disney last week for business power brokers.

This is by design.

In an exclusive Q&A with The Daily Beast, Walker expressed deep affection and support for parents who teach their kids at home.

continue at The Daily Beast

Governor Walker Issues Day of Prayer Proclamation

Wisconsin’s Governor Walker has proclaimed Thursday, May 7, as a Day of Prayer in the state of Wisconsin. According to the Governor’s press release, the theme for this year will be “Lord, Hear Our Cry,” based on I Kings 2:28 in the Bible.

Read the full press release HERE.

Wisconsin Family Council 

Scott Walker: How Pro-Life is He?

Did you remember to mark Ronald Reagan’s birthday? I did, by taking another look at his landmark Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation — the first time a sitting president published a book on such a crucial moral issue. The book was a brave and principled assertion of the rights of unborn children, by the president who brought pro-lifers in from the cold.

I also remembered, ruefully, how Reagan wasted a “gimme” open Supreme Court appointment on the pro-choice mediocrity Sandra Day O’Connor — a slot which came up in 1981, while Republicans still ran the U.S. Senate and could easily have confirmed a brilliant constitutional purist such as Robert Bork. That decision, few now remember, was the result of a hasty campaign promise Reagan had made to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court.

Pro-Life President, Pro-Choice Staffers

Who was it that, behind the scenes, convinced Ronald Reagan to make such a politically useless promise? Who conned him into picking O’Connor, instead of a solidly pro-life woman jurist?

We will never know which suited shark from K Street whispered in Reagan’s ear, but we do know one thing: O’Connor was and remained a deciding vote in favor of keeping the killing of unborn children legal. And she made it to the court because someone convinced Ronald Reagan that she was pro-life, when she wasn’t.

I had started volunteering for candidate Reagan in 1976, when I was just 12 years old, and he was still just a California governor. I had already been ringing doorbells for New York’s once vibrant Right to Life Party, and it filled me with hope that a serious contender for the Republican nomination was challenging the party’s dominant pro-choice establishment.

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American Thinker: Marquette at the Crossroads

An interesting confluence of events occurred this week that will probably fly under the media radar.

Ben Cohen reports that Marquette University has begun proceedings aimed at depriving political science professor John McAdams of tenure – and presumably firing him – for discussing an academic matter without permission of the Department of Truth. McAdams put up a blog item concerning how Cheryl Ablate, a grad student instructor, had forbade any opposition to gay marriage in her classroom while also targeting a student who complained about this policy. The standard justification for tenure – that it enables academics to address controversial topics without fear of retribution – is apparently no longer operative at Marquette.

Almost simultaneously, the Washington Post published a hit piece by David Farenthold attacking Gov. Scott Walker for, among other things, failing to graduate from college. The institution that Walker left was none other than… Marquette University.

There’s no causation here, of course – Walker could not foresee in the early 90s that Marquette would eventually turn fascist. But there is a connection all the same. A left-wing college abuses its authority while breaking its own rules (I guess they didn’t read their Alinsky) in order to punish dissent, while a former student who has survived many similar leftist forays into the politics of destruction sets out on the path to the White House. What clearer illustration of the current political dichotomy could there be?

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/02/marquette_at_the_crossroads.html#ixzz3RdvbaXkO
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We're told that FOX will be running a segment tonight on “The Stossel Show,” about Marquette and the Dr. McAdams situation.

Reviewing Our Predictions for Election 2014

Last month, I posted my predictions for the 2014 midterm elections. With the final Senate seat being decided in a runoff election this past weekend, it seems like a good time to revisit those predictions to see how we did.

The general consensus was that we'd see a strong Republican showing. I went a little further out on a limb, projecting the GOP to outperform state-by-state polling data. Reality was even more of Republican win.

Pre-Prediction Prediction
While this doesn't necessarily count as an election prediction, I wrote "I know Mitch McConnell promised that a Republican majority in the Senate will kill Obamacare. I've heard that line before. The GOP promises big things before an election. After the election, there's no tough decision that can't be delayed indefinitely."

Senate Majority Elect Mitch McConnell didn't even wait for the new Congress to be sworn in before backing off of that promise, saying that our hopes for repeal come from the Supreme Court "as opposed to actually getting the president to sign a full repeal, which is not likely to happen..."

Shocker.

Prediction #1: Walker: 51%, Burke: 49%
Result: Walker 52%, Burke, 47%

Well, I was right in predicting the winner, but off a few percent as Walker pulled out nearly a six point victory. It wouldn't be the only time the GOP outperformed the polls on election night.

Prediction #2: "I'll also predict that the GOP pulls off the attorney general race and narrowly expands the majority in the Legislature."
Result: The Republicans picked up two seats in the Senate and three in the Assembly.

We nailed this one.

Prediction #3: "...the Republicans pick up an even 10 seats in the House of Representatives."
Result: The Republicans picked up a dozen seats in the House for their biggest advantage since the Truman Administration. There is the opportunity to claim a 13th seat pending a recall election in Arizona.

Not bad, not bad!

Prediction #4: "...the GOP wins Louisiana, Georgia, Colorado, Iowa, Alaska and Kansas for a 53 seat majority in the next Congress."
Result: The GOP picked up all those seats, plus North Carolina, to win a 54 seat majority.

Perhaps the most interesting part of my prediction was this:

Those eight seats are as follows (ranked in order of how likely I think the Republicans are to win):

1. Louisiana
2. Georgia
3. Colorado
4. Iowa
5. Alaska
6. Kansas
7. North Carolina
8. New Hampshire

....If my estimation is correct, we will be able to draw a horizontal line somewhere on this list, and everything about will go red; everything below will go blue. 

It turns out that this was almost exactly correct. One through seven went red (with a nail-biter putting North Carolina in the GOP column), and New Hampshire went blue in a closer than expected race. Missing from this race was Virginia--which I did not expect to be close. The GOP nearly pulled off an upset here.

Rationale #1:  "Well, that's not a very bold prediction, Karlen. You're just telling us what the polls are telling us!"

Yes, my analysis was heavily based on polling data, which I have long (correctly) argued is incredibly reliable on predicting elections. While my poll-based projections turned out to be quite accurate (as you'll see above), I think one of the most interesting aspects of this election is that the polls were way off in the magnitude of the GOP landslide.

For example, the polls and I predicted a two point Walker win. We look correct for getting the winner right, even though the final margin was nearly four points greater than the projection. If we miss by four points the other way, Mary Burke is the governor-elect, and we look like idiots. We might have gotten lucky.

So has polling broken down? Are response trends now too unpredictable that there's no way to use public opinion surveys to accurately gauge elections? That, my friends, is the million billion dollar question that we'll need at least another two years to answer.

Rationale #2: "One party usually takes home 70-80% of the tossup seats....That means that either the Democrats sandbag their losses, take a majority of the tossups and save their Senate majority or the GOP heads into 2015 with a stronger-than-expected majority."

If there's one thing I got right, it's the paragraph above.

Exit Prediction #1: Hillary will not be the next president of the United States.
Exit Prediction #2: Right now you're quietly cursing me for this subtle reminder that we've got two years of NONSTOP speculation, advertising and chatter about the 2016 presidential election.

Predictions for Election 2014

Greetings, my friends, and a tremendous Monday to all of you. In case you haven't noticed the bevy of ugly election signs in everybody's front yard, we've got an election tomorrow--and EXTREMELY IMPORTANT election. It's the election of a lifetime that will determine the future of our great nation. It's absolutely critical!

Just kidding. I can't remember a national election that's had less significance than this one.

That's not to say you shouldn't vote; you should. And the governor's race here in the Badger State certainly matters. But a lot of the hand-wringing over control of the Senate is silly. If the Democrats keep control, they'll still have to deal with a Republican House. If the Republicans take over, the president will veto any conservative legislation that Congress passes. (And let's be honest, the odds of even a Republican Congress passing conservative legislation is infinitesimally small.) 

I know Mitch McConnell promised that a Republican majority in the Senate will kill Obamacare. I've heard that line before. The GOP promises big things before an election. After the election, there's no tough decision that can't be delayed indefinitely.

Still, the political junkie in me can't help but to get excited on Election Day. I love watching the returns come in and analyzing who is winning, where, and why. And don't forget: Every time an incumbent loses, an angel gets his wings!

That said, let's make some predictions:

Wisconsin:

Walker: 51%

Burke: 49%

Lector: Well, that's not a very bold prediction, Karlen. You're just telling us what the polls are telling us!

Dear reader, you are correct. And if I enter a March Madness bracket with you this spring, there's a pretty good bet I'll take all number one seeds in the Final Four. I've been the guy who nails all the first round upsets--12 seeds over 5 seeds all day, baby! But that's not what gets you paid. Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

I'll also predict that the GOP pulls off the attorney general race and narrowly expands the majority in the Legislature.

National:

I'm predicting the Republicans pick up an even 10 seats in the House of Representatives.

Now let's look where it's really interesting: the Senate. Just as we did when I accurately predicted the 2012 presidential election, we'll start with the RealClearPolitics.com map. As of my writing of this analysis, RCP had the Democrats likely owning 45 seats, the GOP 47, and eight toss-ups. 

Those eight seats are as follows (ranked in order of how likely I think the Republicans are to win):

1. Louisiana*
2. Georgia*
3. Colorado
4. Iowa
5. Alaska
6. Kansas
7. North Carolina
8. New Hampshire

Louisiana and Georgia are three-way races, and there will be a runoff election between the top two candidates next month--unless one of them takes home a majority (50% plus one vote) tomorrow. I'll predict both of these races go to a runoff, with the GOP picking up both seats.

If my estimation is correct, we will be able to draw a horizontal line somewhere on this list, and everything about will go red; everything below will go blue. 

Looking at the data, I'm inclined to draw that line right around Alaska--possibly above it, but probably below it. But it's also true that states considered tossups usually don't split evenly as we might guess. One party usually takes home 70-80% of the tossup seats. I knew this in 2012, but I still hedged my bets and predicted that Romney would carry the swing states of Colorado and Virginia in 2012. In reality, he carried neither while also losing Florida in a total blowout.

I'm not playing it safe again. That means that either the Democrats sandbag their losses, take a majority of the tossups and save their Senate majority or the GOP heads into 2015 with a stronger-than-expected majority. Which way do we go?

Well, given how unpopular the president is, I really have a hard time seeing his party carry red states like Louisiana, Georgia or Alaska. While I'm reluctant to believe in the GOP in states like Colorado and Iowa, which have been trending blue, the polls have consistently shown the Republican in the lead.

At the same time, over the last decade, the Republicans have struggled to perform at the levels polling would indicate. I mentioned that the tossup states tend to fall overwhelmingly to one party or another. Well, the Cook Political Report has a chart out that shows the the tossups have gone to the Democrats overwhelmingly each of the last four elections--including the 2010 GOP landslide!

So which way do we go? Ultimately, I believe the Republicans have shown enough strength in the polls, that I'm going to predict the GOP wins Louisiana, Georgia, Colorado, Iowa, Alaska and Kansas for a 53 seat majority in the next Congress.

We'll check back in Wednesday morning to see how it all shook out. 

Marquette poll: Walker 50, Burke 45 among likely voters

Gov. Scott Walker opened up a slight lead among likely voters on Dem rival Mary Burke in the latest Marquette University Law School Poll, the first time since March the advantage for either candidate has been outside the margin of error.

Fifty percent of likely voters backed Walker, while 45 percent supported Burke. Among registered voters, it was 46-45 Walker.

In the last poll two weeks ago, Walker and Burke were tied at 46 percent apiece among registered voters. Among likely voters, Walker had a 49-46 edge.

Poll director Charles Franklin said with the race now a little more than a month away, he is starting to focus more on likely voters.

He also called Walker’s lead on Burke among men “astonishing.” Walker led among men 62-34, while Burke led among women 54-40.

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Gov. Walker's toast to mothers

via Wiggy 

Madison – Governor Scott Walker, with sons Matt and Alex, thanked their mothers, grandmothers, and aunts today and recognized women across the state celebrating Mother’s Day.

I have had the distinct honor of being raised by a mother who always pushed me to follow my dreams and become the man I wanted to be and of being married to a woman who instilled these same values in our sons. Today, Matt, Alex, and I thank Tonette, Pat Walker, and the many women who have helped shape our lives – you are an inspiration to us and a constant reminder to always be the best men possible.

To all the women in Wisconsin, we wish you a very happy Mother’s Day.

The Mother’s Day Proclamation by Governor Scott Walker is online at the link.

For those of you who are not sports fans, I mean, if we want to consider the NBA a sport, I would highly recommend watching Kevin Durant's acceptance speech for the NBA MVP.  

Wisconsin government’s pro-life leadership deficit continues to worsen

Over the past few months, the actions of Wisconsin’s Republican leadership have raised red flags among pro-lifers for abandoning legislation that would ban sex-selection abortion and protect Wisconsinites’ conscience rights against forced subsidizing of abortion. Disturbingly, not only has the trend continued, but it may be getting worse.

First, Wisconsin Family Action reports that the GOP-controlled state Senate “refused to schedule” a final vote on AB 206, a bill making available “Choose Life” license plates (the sales of which would fund pregnancy resource services), “on the last day of session, effectively killing it.”

Granted, license plates are hardly the biggest item on the pro-life agenda, but the fact that they pose no threat to legal abortion makes it all the more baffling why ostensibly pro-life leaders would feel the need to stifle them. The mildest possible pro-life measure is still too controversial? Pathetic.

Second, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Gov. Scott Walker has hired a new spokeswoman, Alleigh Marre, for his gubernatorial reelection. In 2011, Marre declared, “I’m a Republican, and I support Planned Parenthood, a woman’s right to choose, access to STD testing, birth control, etc.” Marre has also worked for pro-abortion ex-GOP Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts. So far there’s been no outright confirmation as to what Marre thinks about abortion today, but as the MJS’s Daniel Bice points out, statements by Team Walker have “all but confirmed Marre’s pro-choice position.”

continue at LiveActionNews

Scott Walker Campaign Spokeswoman Supports Planned Parenthood, Abortion

Last Thursday, news broke that Gov. Scott Walker's campaign spokeswoman, Alleigh Marre, is a vocal supporter of Planned Parenthood, abortion, and contraception.

"Obviously, that's a problem. These are top positions," said Matt Sande, Pro-Life Wisconsin's Legislative Director. "They should be of one mind on these core social issues. I think he needs a new spokeswoman, immediately."

In 2011, Marre, 25, wrote on her blog, which has since been deleted, "I'm a Republican, and I support Planned Parenthood, a woman's right to choose, access to STD testing, birth control, etc. Did I mention I'm a Republican?"

The same day, Gov. Walker defended his hiring of Marre, saying he hires people for his campaign based on their abilities, not their pro-life beliefs. He added that Marre would be keeping her job. “She’s not a policy maker in those particular issues,” he said in her defense. “She’s acting as a communications person.”

Pro-Life Wisconsin

More on this later. It's a move to make him look "presidential" I'm sure.  Just like Paul Ryan supporting gay "marriage."  

Scott Walker Says He Won’t Cave to Atheists’ Demand to Pull Bible Verse

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker ® will not comply with an atheist group’s request that he remove a Bible verse from his official Facebook and Twitter accounts, his spokeswoman told TheBlaze.

“Governor Walker will not remove the post on his social media,” Walker spokeswoman press secretary Laurel Patrick said in an email. “The verse was part of a devotional he read that morning, which inspired him, and he chose to share it.”

Patrick said Walker’s social media accounts are frequently used “to engage with Wisconsinites on matters of public policy” as well as to give constituents “a sense of who he is.”

She said the scripture reference he posted on March 16 was simply “a reflection of his thoughts for the day.”

Walker’s response came after the Freedom From Religion Foundation wrote him a letter this week asking that he delete the message, which read simply, “Philippians 4:13,” from his official Facebook and Twitter accounts.

The popular New Testament Bible verse reads, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”

continue at The Blaze

Philippians 4:13
— Governor Walker (@GovWalker) March 16, 2014

9 Things You Need to Know About The John Doe Document Dump

1. No charges against Walker. The material released Wednesday was nearly four years old and part of an investigation that ended with no charges against the governor. The 27,000 pages of emails consisted largely of volumes of old news, office gossip, political chatter, and unproved allegations. 

 

2. Nothing new.  Nothing in the new batch of emails incriminates Walker in any way. If there was evidence of criminal activity, prosecutors would have filed charges. Instead, they shut down that probe without charges against the governor. 

 

3. No link. The emails that supposedly "link" Walker to the "secret" email system don't.  In one email, Cindy Archer mentions that she uses a non-public email to communicate with Walker. The "secret system" turns out to be... a private email account. Despite the breathless headline, it does not show that Walker knew of the secret router system that Kelly Rindfleisch used to conduct campaign work for others. Archer's house was subsequently raided. Neither Archer nor Walker were charged.  In another email cited by the paper, Walker tells a staffer "No more laptops." This is not evidence he knew of a  "secret" system.... it is evidence that he wanted no political activity by county staffers. As our Savvy Pundit notes, the email shows "Walker firmly telling staff that any sort of mixing of campaign activity with his office work was unacceptable – no excuses, no technological end-arounds, no more."

 

4. Court of public opinion... not of law.  The prosecutors who released these emails could not convict Walker in a court of law, so they are resorting to a media trial in the court of public opinion.

continue at Right Wisconsin

In other words, a total embarrassment.   JS still trying to sell it as a "secret email system."  Sheesh.  Desperation is a stinky cologne.

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Gov Walker says he senses no gay marriage 'movement'

Gov. Scott Walker, a staunch defender of Wisconsin's gay marriage ban, said Wednesday that he senses no "significant movement" to undo the law even though a federal lawsuit filed Monday challenges its constitutionality.

The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, was brought on behalf of four same-sex couples who are seeking the same legal protections and civil rights that marriage between a man and woman provides. They argue that Wisconsin's ban, adopted by voters in 2006, violates the U.S. Constitution's equal protection and due process clauses.

But Walker, who faces re-election in November, sidestepped commenting on arguments in the lawsuit when asked about it Wednesday. Instead, he said as governor he was obligated to uphold the state constitution and the ban, but defending it would be left to Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen.

"I haven't heard a significant movement across the state to make an alteration on that one way or the other," Walker said of the ban.

Polling shows increased support for legalizing gay marriage in Wisconsin and dozens of lawsuits have been filed across the country challenging similar laws. The U.S. Supreme Court in June ruled same-sex couples were entitled to federal benefits and a federal judge in December overturned a same-sex marriage ban in conservative Utah.

Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/state-and-regional/walker-says-he-senses-no-gay-marriage-movement/article_fbf603f6-5fb3-5a46-8b36-98b54f7cb730.html#ixzz2sZAAzmz2

The difference between Minnesota and Wisconsin on this issue is the ECLA(MN) and the WELS(WI).  People in Madison might not think so but I think it's a harder sell in Wisconsin, passing an amendment by 60% only 7 years ago.  They may want to believe that they got a 20 % swing, but the fact of the matter is that this move is happening precisely because they know they can't beat the amendment at the polls.  They'll have to use emotional appeals to squeamish judges.

Everyone knows this is not about gay "marriage," but specifically about gay adoption and redefining what a family is.  I've said this before, but the homosexualists are just taking the Dogma of the Sexual Revolution to its logical conclusion.  The definition of a natural marriage is as defined below:

As Fr. John Hardon explains in his Pocket Catholic Dictionary, there are four elements common to natural marriage throughout history:

1. It is a union of opposite sexes.
   
2. It is a lifelong union, ending only with the death of one spouse.
   
3. It excludes a union with any other person so long as the marriage exists.
4. Its lifelong nature and exclusiveness are guaranteed by contract.

If a natural marriage is not what is actually is, then it can be defined as anything.

The Dogma of the Sexual Revolution can be defined as:

The following is a false statement: The use of sexual powers can only legitimately be used with the above conditions.

And the anti-nature evangelizers will not stop until everyone believes wholeheartedly in this Dogma. 

But I can't emphasis enough that we need to support Wisconsin Family Action's religious freedom legislation.  They will close down Catholic Charities, schools, and any wedding related business in the state until we all submit to the homosexualist agenda.

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