I’m really rooting for Wisconsin’s Scott Walker in this year’s election. No, not the goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch Industries – hat tip to Charlie Pierce! – that you’re thinking of. The anti-Scott Walker Scott Walker. In other words, the good Scott Walker, who’s educated, pro-union and pro-choice!
From Todd Richmond of AP:
Scott Walker loves unions, thinks women should have the right to an abortion and wants to expand health care coverage.
If you’re confused, get in line.
This Scott Walker isn’t the former Wisconsin governor whose battles with teachers and other public unions made him one of the most polarizing political figures in the battleground state’s recent history. That was Scott Kevin Walker. This is Scott Abbot Walker, a Democratic country doctor running for the state Legislature.
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Walker is running against 14-year Republican incumbent Travis Tranel in the 49th Assembly District, which covers a swath of rolling farm country across Grant and Crawford counties in Wisconsin’s far southwestern corner. The district’s largest municipality is Platteville, a city of about 11,000 people whose biggest claim to fame is a small state university.
Even though the good Walker is a long shot, he might have some laughs along the way, like his encounter with Ron Johnsen, not to be confused with Ron Johnson:
Ron Johnsen, 64, at first didn’t seem to grasp which Walker was on his porch when the candidate knocked on his door to hand him a flyer. Johnsen, a retired University of Wisconsin-Platteville maintenance worker, informed Walker that he wasn’t happy about losing his union rights and had signed the recall petition.
“I looked at him, and he don’t look like the (Scott Walker) I remember,” Johnsen said.
This is almost as much fun as the recent Republican primary in which Ben Franklin beat Phil Collins.
