He stalked the stage and wowed the crowd at an Iowa Tea Party event less than two months ago and climbed so fast on the right wing's depth chart that before you could get a fix on Scott Walker, The New York Times was reporting he'd already had a makeover.
But you out there beyond Wisconsin - - what do you really know about the guy?
I have created a single blog posting here about Scott Walker's history, budgets, mindset, faith, policies and right-wing connections - - with documentation and numerous links to published materials - - to flesh out a narrative more accurate and complete than what he is selling nationwide to media and audiences seeing or reading about him for the first time.
Walker's state budgets and legislative agendas furthered by gerry-mandered GOP legislative majorities continue to cut deeply into Wisconsin citizen oversight of policy-making, collective bargaining, environmental protection, health care availability, women's medical care, food stamp and medicaid availability, Native American rights, state-supported secondary schools and higher education, ballot box access and other state government/public service basics.
He and the GOP have systematically rolled back Wisconsin's Progressive tradition, previewing what he, fellow Wisconsinites Paul Ryan and Reince Preibus and their corporate financiers have in mind for the country should Walker win the White House.
I have created a single posting at The Political Environment, my Wisconsin-based blog begun more than eight years ago, that documents through dozens of links many facts about Walker better known in Wisconsin than in the states which Walker is now barnstorming.
I have also added there material about Walker's use of a secret email system when he was Milwaukee County Executive that led to six criminal convictions and the release of a trove of damaging information, and his inveterate, documented false speaking, among other information.