brown s race was the only impending senate race, david koch gave $30,000 to the nrc. the koch brothers pac gave the committee 15,000 more, and gave the campaign 5,000 directly. they have given tens of thousands to another republican scott, this guy, scott walker, which is why someone impersonating david koch was able to get governor walker on the phone last month for twenty minutes in the middle of what wasç supposedly a grueling sta budget crisis. repercussions from that call to governor walker continue to reverb rate for the governor. he tipped his strategy, he talked about tricking state democrats back. he explained how he would use the threat of laying off state workers for its political
walker said to the guy he thought was david koch, or what walker said to the man he believed was the oil billionaire that funded his campaign, specifically raising ethical concerns about this part. the coming days and weeks and months ahead, particularly in some of these more swing areas, and a lot of these guys don t necessarily need ads for them, but need a message reinforcing why this was good to do for the economy and good to do for the state. so to the extent that message is out over and over again, that s obviously a good thing. wisconsin governor scott walker suggesting to the fake david koch that the real david koch should get out the message for republicans, raising the idea of a little koch funded independent expenditure to support the state s republican senators, particularly in swing districts. you know, that s the thing about independent expenditures. if a politician suggests them, they are no longer independent. wisconsin democrats say mr.
end, what would you need to hear from governor walker or from the republicans in order to get you back? what are you waiting to hear? that s a really good question. first of all, we would like to hear they are honest and sincere in efforts to bring resolution to this. we have been very up front about why we are here and about what we would like to see changed in the budget repair bill or big state budget coming up now as well. there s a couple different ways to get out of here. first of all, you can take an amendment that the state assembly had on the floor to restore a lot of what governor walker wanted to take away from collective bargaining. the other option which seems to be the stumbling block is collective bargaining as a whole. they are not budging, we are not budging. take out that language in the budget repair bill, put it in the biennial budget and we can debate the next couple of months. people would be able to weigh in on it, done in the light of day and most importantly
governor walker is conceding that on his own side of the aisle he may have lost one of the budget repair bill votes. he was counting on dale schultz. without his vote, republicans could onlyç stand to lose two other votes and withstand this. do you think one way this might resolve, somebody might persuade two others to vote against what walker is doing? there s a couple of things going on back home. obviously we ve seen the polls. you have seen the left leaning, middle of the road polls and right leaning polls and all say the same, that the governor should take the compromise. most conservative poll came out sunday saying 67% of people in wisconsin supported that. if you are a senator in wisconsin and look at all of the recall efforts and seeing how quickly the democratic side are gathering signatures, take the poll results, recall information you have, and that might nudge you to say look, we need to
if a politician suggests them, they are no longer independent. wisconsin democrats say mr. walker was not only illegally coordinating campaign expenditures in that moment, he was soliciting david koch s financial help from the governor s office inside the state capitol. you are not supposed to solicit campaign contributions from your public office. talking about the koch brothers in 2011 is starting to feel like talking about karl rove in 2004. if you care about progressive politics or even fair play in 2011, you really can t get away from the koch brothers. they are becoming way too ubiquitous. they come up in every political scandal, from wisconsin union busting and phony astro turf bus tours to the questionable partiality of the american supreme court justices. every time a political scandal erupts big or small, there are the koch brothers with a chair pulled up to the table. i do not want it to be true.