you may think it's offensive but it's a private e-mail from a deputy chief of staff. here's why it's important. at the same time that walker's staff were sending those hate-filled e-mail, walker's staff were campaigning to govern the entire state of wisconsin, which spends more than a billion dollars on its state food stamp program alone and that helps feed nearly a million people a month. states play a crucial role in the management of public assistance programs, determining eligibility, delivering services, responding to complaints. as it turns out scott walker was governing a place that did just that, only on a smaller scale. welcome to milwaukee county, where in 2010 walker's last full year as county executive, the poverty rate was 21.5%. that's nearly seven points higher than the national average at the time. how would you predict a government that has its top staffers sending around an e-mail like this, how would you predict they perform when it comes to delivering necessary services like food, health care and child care benefits? well, if you guessed poorly, you