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Scott Walker Takes Helm of Young America’s Foundation They talk about unity, but what they mean is they want you to support what they believe and to affirm what they believe,” former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says of the intolerant left. Pictured: Walker, as governor, introduces Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Aug. 16, 2016, in West Bend, Wisconsin. (Photo: Darren Hauck/Getty Images)
Left-wing ideologues who attempt to suppress conservative ideas on college campuses and in legislative chambers don’t genuinely believe in either unity or diversity despite what they say, former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said in an interview with The Daily Signal.
Dems: It killed bipartisanship
As it became evident that Republicans in the Legislature planned to rush through passage of Act 10, Democratic lawmakers, who held minorities in the Assembly and Senate, knew they had to get creative.
Their radical solution: Flee the state.
Fourteen Democratic state senators, including then-Minority Leader Mark Miller, drove across the state line to Illinois in an effort to block the vote while putting them beyond the reach of Wisconsin law enforcement, who might have brought them back by force. Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca and his fellow Democrats in that house stayed at the Capitol to try to negotiate with Republicans.