In 2007, then Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker, hired Cynthia Archer to be his budget director, despite Archer's public record of having a restraining order placed against her for multiple domestic violence incidents in 1995.
Archer would go on to become one of Walker's closest and most trusted aides and follow him to the Governor's office, when he was elected in 2010.
Meh... is this really an issue? In a normal world, no. But in this crazy election cycle, yes.
The Walker campaign has made considerable hay over the DNC chairwoman making inappropriate domestic violence comments and has criticized Burke for having a woman involved in a domestic violence incident in an anti-Walker abortion ad. Walker also has been running an ad the past two weeks featuring a domestic violence survivor famously saying, "I fought to stay alive for my other two children, and today I am fighting for Scott Walker."
Anywhere and everywhere, the last few weeks, Walker has wrapped himself in the anti-domestic violence flag.
And this is this same Scott Walker that overlooked a 1996 restraining order filed against Archer for abusing her then-partner.
Cynthia Archer Restraining Order
According to the restraining order, on October 29, 1995 Archer "initiated a physical confrontation." And then a few days later, in another incident, "started pushing" her partner inside her home and when she fled outside, "pushed me against her truck." The partner says that she was able to get away again, but that Archer "came after me again, grabbed, pushed and shook me."
She concluded that she was "fearful that respondent may again subject me to forceful and unwanted physical contact."