Plain Talk: Walker's the one who has outsiders with him
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Several days ago, I had to laugh to myself when I read an early interview with Gov. Scott Walker in the New York Times.
“I’m not going to be intimidated,” Walker pontificated, “particularly by people from other places.”
He then reiterated that theme when he gave his so-called “fireside chat” a few days later.
The implication, of course, was that many of those pro-union demonstrators who descended on the state Capitol weren’t really from Wisconsin. “People from other places” -- outsiders, if you will -- are to be dismissed by our esteemed governor.
To be sure, people from all parts of the country, appalled by the blatant union-busting that Walker unleashed on the once proud progressive state of Wisconsin, did come to Madison, among them civil rights icon Jesse Jackson and the national president of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka, and thousands of