Not feeling one bit sorry for the lifetime grifter on the taxpayers dime.
File this under: How The Might Have Fallen
Scott Walker hasn’t had a private sector job in decades. He’s spent his lifetime getting government checks from elected office. He even saw himself in the Oval Office for a time and was so sure that he’d be elected President that he sold his Wauwatosa home. He has no useful skills or recognizable intellect. Even Faux News apparently doesn't want him.
Since Wisconsin voters showed him the door in November, he’s been unable to land a job since leaving office in January. It’s April now.
He joined a speakers bureau and took to Twitter encouraging groups to hire him to speak. No takers that I’ve heard of.
He filled in for vacationing RW talk show host Mark Behling on Milwaukee AM radio last month, but that was just a temporary gig. And then he screwed it up big time when he pissed off Congresscritter Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI-05) so badly that he lost a speaking gig at the 5th District Congressional caucus last month.
And now, there’s this.
The two-term Republican governor was recently named the national honorary chairman of the Institute for Reforming Government, a policy shop said to be interested in trying to "simplify government at every level."
But here's what the announcement didn't say:
The new nonprofit was founded and is operated by a collection of old Walker and GOP hands.
(Underlining is mine)
Yup. A brand new shiny RW organization with the people involved reading like a Who’s Who from the Walker administration and campaign.
Democrats chimed in:
"It isn't surprising that Scott Walker is once again trying to find the next stepping stone for his political ambitions," said Democratic Party spokeswoman Courtney Beyer, whose office was unaware of the new group's ties to Walker's old allies.
"That Walker had to resort to a 'leadership' role in a hollow group fabricated by his friends shows just how desperate he is to retain relevance after Wisconsin voters made their thoughts on him clear last November."
Rumor has it that he’ll run for US Senate when Ron Johnson’s term is up (Johnson previously said he didn’t plan to run for another term) and needs to be seen as politically viable then (as opposed to a old, washed-up has-been). Then again, if the GOP can keep on obstructing our Democratic Governor, Tony Evers, Walker might want to try again for the Governors Mansion to lay even more waste to ur once-fine state.
Stay tuned.