Scott Walker is making us show ID to vote.
Rep. Don Pridemore wants to make everybody show proof of citizenship along with their driver license and proof of insurance when they get pulled over for speeding.
And now you'll need an ID to attend an official state event where Governor Scott Walker is speaking.
F'reals.
Anyone hoping to attend an event featuring Gov. Scott Walker in Waupaca on Thursday will need to show a driver’s license as proof of United States citizenship before entering.
The luncheon at Centerline Machine, a Waupaca manufacturing company, will include a “State of the State update” by Walker, according to an invitation from the Waupaca Area Chamber of Commerce. To enter the company, the invitation reads, visitors “will need a driver’s license as proof of U.S. citizenship.”
Waupaca is a little town in Northeast Wisconsin -- conservative country, to be sure. But still. C'mon.
But it isn't the governor's fault:
he citizenship requirement is a longstanding rule for anyone who visits the company because it does a lot of contract work for the government. All first-time visitors are required to sign in and show a driver’s license under federal anti-arms trafficking regulations required of contractors, she said.
Still. Come on now, Gov. Show a little class and hold your event somewhere else.
If not, you're an even bigger PR failure than I thought.