Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Time Magazine Let Scott Walker Clean Up His Student Days

Time Magazine skims the surface of Scott Walker's Marquette University schooling and dropping out, missing his published GPA, credit deficit, run for student body president marred by ethics violations and a withdrawn student paper endorsement, and timeline for the birth of his kids which did not conflict with his buckling down and graduating.

The magazine's writers should begun with an Internet search or talked to the school paper, which ran this story during Walker's 2010 gubernatorial run:
Walker attended Marquette from 1986 to 1990, but never attained a degree (see page 5). His sophomore year, Walker ran for president of the Associated Students of Marquette University (ASMU, the former title for Marquette Student Government). He was accused of violating campaign guidelines on multiple occasions. 
The Tribune reported then that he was found guilty of illegal campaigning two weeks before his candidacy became official. Later, a Walker campaign worker was seen placing brochures under doors at the YMCA. Door-to-door campaigning was strictly prohibited. 
Walker initially denied this but later admitted to the violation, which resulted in lost campaign privileges at the YMCA. 
In the run-up to election day, the Tribune’s editorial board endorsed Walker’s opponent John Quigley, but said either candidate had the potential to serve effectively. 
However, the Tribune revised its editorial the following day, calling Walker “unfit for presidency.” The column cited Walker’s distribution of a mudslinging brochure about Quigley that featured statements such as “constantly shouting about fighting the administration” and “trying to lead several ineffective protests of his own.” 
Simple Google searches would have also found that Walker's first child was born in 1993, long after Walker left MU in 1990 - - undermining his claim to Time that it was the arrival of his kids that prevented the completion of his degree.

And undermining his statement to a school publication that he was going to graduate at the end of 1990 with a triple major when he was clearly far short of credits.


A degree to which he had attained only 94 credits over four years - - 36 short - - and a 2.59 GPA, according to a Journal Sentinel story. 

10 comments:

MAL said...

James and readers,

Have not read Time Magazine's comments, but this truth you point out in Zeke Miller's piece is good politics, and the type of revealing of character that destroys early candidates for president and governors running for reelection.

-mal
---Commnent
http://swampland.time.com/2013/11/19/wisconsin-gov-scott-walker-a-2016-contender-but-not-a-college-graduate/

Jake formerly of the LP said...

Exactly. I've sent a note to Zeke Miller, and the national folks aren't going to take kindly to Walker trying to slip one over on them.

Hey Scotty, Chuckles Sykes's voice doesn't mean much on the national stage. You're in over your head, kiddo

Anonymous said...

Yet, amazingly, Scott Walker was elected twice in one term despite massive amounts of money from special interest groups opposed to his style of leadership.

Americans need a man of his word to restore confidence in this great nation.

Jake formerly of the LP said...

This has to be satire. They certainly have the weak-minded Bagger deflection technique down.

The only "word" Scott Walker keeps is to those who pay his bills behind closed doors. But if you wish to be a sucker and cling to these last few months....

Gareth said...

Walker is a compulsive, pathological liar. His hero, Ronald Reagan was famous for telling whoppers, which the media at the time seemed to find charming, but Reagan had a good excuse -- dementia. Does Walker really think his Presidential primary opponents are going to give him a free pass on his BS while he stabs them in the back? Eventually he will be called-out during an interview or a debate and will start stuttering and stammering like Porky Pig.

Anonymous said...

I have always suspected that the way it went down was like this: MU officials gave Walker the choice, leave or get expelled. He chose to leave to remain politically viable in the future. So, he can claim he left school, the reality was he would have been thrown out...another Nixon similarity.

Mortified in West Allis said...

I hope Gov. Waller DOES run for President. He'll be forced to release his school records and his purported plagiarism (i.e. cheating)will be exposed. Did Time Magazine request a privacy release from the Gov. to verify his version of event? Probably not,but it won't be so easy to distort if he runs for President.

Mortified in West Allis said...

I hope Gov. Waller DOES run for President. He'll be forced to release his school records and his purported plagiarism (i.e. cheating)will be exposed. Did Time Magazine request a privacy release from the Gov. to verify his version of event? Probably not,but it won't be so easy to distort if he runs for President.

Anonymous said...

Jake 7:26

You aren't paying attention -- both in-state and out-of-state media has entirely propped him up despite (perhaps BECAUSE) of his contant lying.

Romney/Ryan was as dishonest a pair as possible -- media loved them, most pundits even proclaimed it was wrong to fact-check them.

Walker's lies play well on the national state and media -- just look at the way rowen's journal communication props this sociopathic liar up.

If you think the media is going to be the "watchdog" you are reading this blog too much.

Boxer said...

James, I thought you were going to delete Anonytroll's future comments? Seems as if he's back and controlling himself somewhat--for now!
I know it's almost impossible for you to tell these trolls apart, but if you let one troll get away with "the way rowen's journal communication props this sociopathic liar up"--mild though it is--other trolls will attempt to slither through the gates.

You know their toxic spew will soon erupt again. And splash on us.