Scott Walker says he won’t back away from allies in Doe probe
Gov. Scott Walker said Friday that he won’t back away from key allies amid a continuing secret John Doe investigation.
Walker also expressed surprise with a recent Wall Street Journal editorial that criticized alleged settlement talks between the Walker campaign and special prosecutor Francis Schmitz.
“I’m certainly not going to undermine people who share my same beliefs and I’m certainly not going to undermine anyone’s First Amendment rights. I’m frankly kind of shocked for anyone to suggest that,” Walker said after delivering a keynote address at Hope Christian High School senior signing day.
Here’s the thing though: Walker’s official statement on the subject is pretty weasel-wordy.
The Walker campaign issued a two-sentence statement Thursday to deny it was in settlement talks.
“I just reminded people neither I nor my campaign is a party to that (federal) lawsuit,” he said. “So in terms of a settlement or a deal, we have no legal standing to even be involved in that one way or the other. So a lot of people were speculating about something that’s just not possible for us to do.”
He’s talking about the lawsuit by the Club for Growth to shut down the probe – and that’s not what anyone is talking about. The Wall Street Journal reported that Walker was cutting a deal to get out from under the corruption probe itself.
He’s being accused of one thing, but he’s denying a straw man. It’s like answering a question about a drunk driving charge by denying you were speeding – i.e., it’s not any kind of answer at all.
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