{"id":51508,"date":"2015-06-18T12:05:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T18:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/18\/waiting-for-scott-walker.html"},"modified":"2015-06-22T15:28:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T21:28:57","slug":"waiting-for-scott-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/18\/waiting-for-scott-walker.html","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for Scott Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While it seems nigh-impossible that there are any prominent GOP politicians left to join the 2016 race, Walker is still pending, and is a leader in many polls.<\/p>\n<p>While he&#39;s made national news mostly for his battles against public service unions (because union-busting is, of course, the American Way), he&#39;s spend the past few years in Wisconsin doing a lot more than that, including doing his darnedest to dismantle Wisconsin&#39;s environmental laws and get scientists out of agencies that deal with scientific matters.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, he should make a great candidate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-scott-walker-dismantled-wisconsin-s-environmental-legacy'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/uZzr96dYn9Eio4rzKHsLXaIpVsn0NMfcw7qdddYyQuuAbeiDe2QYx7QwMAbhUlf-BZJI6hR5mxYa-0ZcGrgPoFC_R8_gfpRx69RfYLQhKDhDCWFmCsZ0-S2ppHpfLwnZEPZnraEQWGCGWw=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-scott-walker-dismantled-wisconsin-s-environmental-legacy'>How Scott Walker Dismantled Wisconsin&#8217;s Environmental Legacy<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nAs governor of Wisconsin, the likely Republican presidential nomination-seeker consistently dismissed science and sided with polluters\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/4QdfdYrpXRa'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it seems nigh-impossible that there are any prominent GOP politicians left to join the 2016 race, Walker is still pending, and is a leader in many polls. While he&#39;s made national news mostly for his battles against public service unions (because union-busting is, of course, the American Way), he&#39;s spend the past few years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/18\/waiting-for-scott-walker.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Waiting for Scott Walker&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,748,532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-elections-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128123,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/21\/scott-walker-is-now-just-wisconsins-problem-again.html","url_meta":{"origin":51508,"position":0},"title":"Scott Walker is now just Wisconsin&#039;s problem again","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 21-Sep-15 10:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"With all due apologies to Wisconsin, Walker's shady deals, abuses of power, and union-busting are just yours to deal with now. Maybe you can take care of that next time he's up for re-election. Scott Walker suspending presidential campaign A once-promising White House bid collapsed in recent weeks. 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