Talk about a bad week - - from Black Friday FUBAR to Unemployment Tuesday, writes Dan Bice:
Walker — who has been calling on fellow Republicans to do more to reach out to minority voters — ousted Taylor Palmisano as his campaign's deputy finance director on Tuesday. The first-term governor made the move after No Quarter contacted his campaign regarding the inflammatory tweets…
Palmisano's ouster comes even as she was lampooned by a variety media outlets for her bizarre fundraising appeal in which she encouraged parents to give to Walker's campaign fund instead of buying Christmas toys for their children...
The letter has prompted newspapers, magazines and websites to liken the Walker campaign to Scrooge and the Grinch and to jeer at the governor's "war on Christmas."
The tweets were from 2011. Did they have to dig for them or did they have them in case they wanted to fire her later? Was the letter written at the request of Walker or did she think of that herself? We will never know because they could dredge up the racist tweets, act all indignant and fire her for that rather than the fund raising letter which probably got some support from the base. I would say "nice work" Dan Bice but I think he is missing the real story on this.
ReplyDeletewonder what belling will have to say about someone being fired for ethnic slurs against hispanics.
ReplyDeleteWhat a double standard here. This poor young lady gets fired for a fund-raising letter & anti-Hispanic racist tweets 2 years ago.
ReplyDeleteWhen WISN radio talk show host Mark Belling made repeated FAR WORSE racist remarks about baseless voter fraud by "wetbacks", he got an extra week of paid vacation from WISN and then won a Marconi Award for excellence in broadcasting.
In right wing circles, blatant racism usually pays off big time. Don't know how Walker could have fired this young lady now for tweets she made 2 years ago. I would think that those tweets probably enhanced her conservative street cred.
It did enhance her street cred, until she sent something that made her a liability to the campaign, which was NOT her prior racist tweets.
DeleteIn today's GOP, it's all about tactics, and policy and decency have no place.
That's what you get when you hire 23-year old bee-oches fresh from Kamp Koch to handle big-girl responsibilities in an important campaign. Walker hasn't shown much good judgment in other hires, either. Think Tim Russell and Brian Gerlach grooming a 17-year old high school student for sexual encounters.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe the little girl WAS hired for her ability to take the fall at some future date--when and if the media/public decided to make an issue of Walker's actions.