Bill Lueders

Category: Walker

  • Smoking Gun: Walker Used Group to Snare Corporate Cash

    Try as he might, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker can’t seem to shake allegations of criminal activities involving his campaign. Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, dominated by conservatives elected with help from the same dark-money groups that supported Walker, last year shut down an investigation into illegal coordination with these groups and ordered the collected evidence destroyed. More>>

  • Walker’s Supreme Court Pick: Affirmative Action as Bad as Slavery

    Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a past and possibly future GOP presidential contender, has just tossed a dripping hunk of red meat to his party’s conservative base by appointing to the state Supreme Court a lawyer who believes affirmative action is as morally reprehensible as slavery and that allowing same-sex couples to wed “will eventually rob the institution of marriage of any discernible meaning.” More>>

  • Scott Walker’s Administration Bad News for Wisconsin’s Right to Know

    In 2015, Wisconsin advocates for open government faced a disquieting truth: If we want to preserve our state’s tradition of transparency and accountability, we must fight for it, against powerful players who will be fighting back. >> More

     

  • Walker Exits, Stage Right

    Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker dropped out of the race for President not with a bang but a whimper. >>More 

  • 10 Fun Facts about Scott Walker

    A yearbook photo of Walker as a high school senior in Delavan, Wisconsin, bears the caption, “Scott K. Walker – the Desperado.”  >>more

     

     

  • The Amazing Scott Walker

    I let Scott Walker get away with it. Not just this one time but as a rule. He is a master of obfuscation and I, as a member of the press, was unwilling to be too impolite.  >>more

     

     

  • Big, Bold and Bad: The New Wisconsin Way

    Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker says that, to win the Presidency, Republicans need to embrace “big, bold ideas” of the sort for which he has become known. Beyond appealing to his party’s base, this message seems to be inspiring his state’s GOP-controlled legislature. >> More

  • Scott Walker and ‘The L Word’

    Panelists at a June 1 Society of Professional Journalists event discussed the challenges of covering Scott Walker. >>More