Today the New Hampshire GOP held a grassroots training event featuring Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a potential 2016 Presidential candidate. In case you don’t yet know Walker, he’s the Governor from Wisconsin who fought against egregious union behavior that was ripping off the taxpayers. Unions literally threatened businesses; some Democrat Legislators fled the state and they tried to siege the capitol building.
Of course, if you know the story, you know Walker not only handily beat a recall election but he won re-election as well. Unions gave the country a good glimpse of their outrageous bullying behavior during that time. Oh and the cherry on top? Walker signed a right-to-work bill in Wisconsin last week. Worker freedom doesn’t sit well with union bosses who prefer forced unionism as exists in New Hampshire so they decided to protest the event today. Unfortunately New Hampshire Unions embarrassed themselves by shipping protesters up from Boston.
Many held pre-made signs claiming Walker isn’t Presidential. One used a tree branch and was wearing a Run Lizzie ‘lie, cheat, fraud’ Warren t-shirt which was quite amusing. There weren’t very many union protesters at the event and it’s unclear just how many were from out-of-state but apparently they left when it started to rain and most likely before Walker even arrived.
Meanwhile the auditorium was packed and the New Hampshire GOP talked about outreach to voters; voter data; forming town committees along with some social media training. Chair Jennifer Horn got laughs when she talked about Hillary Clinton sitting in her basement deleting emails and Jonathan Van Fleet from the Concord Monitor whined that they weren’t allowed in the training portion. Of course, he blamed Walker even though Walker had nothing to do with the training. The full press was allowed into the event as soon as Walker arrived.
Walker gave an excellent speech (no teleprompter) and touched on the main points people are interested in learning about a candidate. He talked about measuring success by the number of people no longer dependent on government. When asked about Common Core by education activist Ann Marie Banfield (who added a dig to Jeb Bush for pushing Common Core and No Child Left Behind) Walker said that education needs to be under local control.
Walker also mentioned that he made Wisconsin the 49th state to have concealed carry and he passed the Castle Doctrine so he showed his 2nd Amendment cred as well.
Walker hasn’t declared his candidacy yet but it’s hard to believe he isn’t a contender. He has a record as governor to back up his claims. Walker’s biggest challenge won’t be the embarrassing and lackluster union protesters from Massachusetts but name recognition. Now that Walker has his foot in the door in New Hampshire it probably won’t take long form it to be a household name. Walker doesn’t just talk the talk, he walks the walk. Just ask union thugs from Wisconsin.
NOTE: You can watch the full speech on C-SPAN
Cross posted from Examiner
Also, NH Labor Union is claiming there were 350 union protesters…. bwahahahahahahahaha… they are lucky if there were a hundred and again, they had to ship them up from Boston. This will be a fun election season watching the unions embarrass themselves over and over again.
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