Scott Walker's Successful Week

By Jeff Simpson 

Scott Walker did not have a very good start to the week, when the Guardian came out with the a massive drop of emails from the John Doe case.  The day they dropped, Scott Walker, who is perpetually intimidated, went immediately into hiding:

 

Greg Neumann‏@gneumann_wkow

Spox for @ScottWalker indicates he will not make himself available to the media about the @guardian story today. #WKOW

While Mr. Walker was in hiding, he was able to do one of his favorite things, send taxpayer money to his donors.  This time though he was able to send $3 Million taxpayer dollars to his good friend(William Gardner) who has been convicted for giving thousands of dollars illegally to (drum roll please) Scott Walker!  

Then after a day in hiding, and presumably working with Frank Luntz on how to spin it, met with the Wisconsin Media who were typically toothless and played right into his hands.   

According to Appleton Post-Crescent reporter Madeleine Behr, Walker said a few hours later at a stop in Fox Crossing that he is not raising money for Wisconsin Club for Growth.

The governor argued voters should not be concerned by anything in the leaked documents. 

He said voters should judge elected officials by whether they do what they said they would do.

"If I did something different than what I said I was going to do, then voters would have a right to question," he said.

How Scott Walker could say that without a barrage of questions from the media assembled is beyond me.   (Edit Note to WI Media: You could start here, here, here, here, here, here or here.

I know it was along time ago, but the same guy that said that also said this:

It did not just stop at handing millions of our dollars to a friend and getting let off the hook by a toothless media, he heard the news that was the icing on the cake for him.

WEAC will be selling their corporate Headquarters!

The state’s largest teachers union, which has experienced a big drop in membership after lawmakers curtailed public-sector collective bargaining, is selling its Madison headquarters.
The Wisconsin Education Association Council is asking $6.9 million for its 51,000-square-foot building and nearly 40 acres as the union seeks to stem the tide of diminishing funding since Republicans in 2011 passed Act 10.

What could make the WISGOP and Scott Walker happier than WEAC selling their HQ.   In what should be one of the worst weeks for one of the worst Governors in our history, has turned into a win for Scott Walker.   Thanks to a lack of opposing party and a generic, toothless media that worries more about maintaining relationships than digging into a story.