After having posted about issues as Tuesday's primary balloting was underway, let me throw out a notion now that Tony Evers has won the Democratic gubernatorial primary - - that he something pivotal and important and appealing that Scott Walker does not.
In a word, depth. Which produces something else which Walker cannot. Trust.
Evers is a Wisconsin born lifelong educator, dedicated to helping children.
As opposed to Walker, a career self-promoting politician, phony-slick, with that fake little wink and one-dimensional willingness to employ whatever prop or stunt meets his poll-driven, handler-provided, superficial approach at any given, ephemeral moment.
Voters statewide have repeatedly entrusted Evers with overseeing state educational policy for their kids.
That's a trust relationship. Evers reminds people of a teacher they respected, or a teacher who's working with one of their children or grandchildren right now.
Most people like teachers.
Walker dropped a bomb on them.
Mostly to curry favor with anti-union donors far from Wisconsin classrooms whom Walker would connect with at the next fund-raiser and tap for the next campaign, and the next.
Which is why Walker wouldn't score very high on anyone's trust matrix. How would you feel if you walked into a classroom for parent-teacher conferences and saw Walker sitting behind the desk, giving you that little wink?
And now the same question, encountering Evers?
Right.
People know Walker let campaign staffers and gofers into his Milwaukee County Executive office suite to set up their secret Internet communication router to milked the people's resources for partisan and personal gain.
I don't see Evers doing anything like that.
So Walker and his machine will roll out their TV ad offensive - - and I know big money can swing elections - - but I don't think they can make voters fear or hate Tony Evers.
I think people are ready for for what Evers offers - - calm and competence - - which is why they picked Earnell Lucas Tuesday night to finish washing away David Clarke's stain on the public sphere, and why voters here and across the country are looking to launch alternatives to Donald Trump on a restorative blue wave wherever possible.
And speaking of waves, blue and otherwise, this.
When they employ their predictable, scripted, bought-and-paid-for cookie-cutter anti-Evers offensive, GOP operatives just might unleash a wave of Walker fatigue which has been building since the John Doe probes, his dark money-assisted recall campaign, that dopey, arrogant run of his for the Presidency - - and which now gets closer to flooding across the electorate as Walker goes all 30-second-phony-slicker-and-slicker defending the indefensible Foxconn money pit.
I hope Evers talks about clean air, fresh water, cleaner government, better roads and greater schools. Provided without a Walker wink or in sentences that don't track because the mind is engaged in talking point recall, not actual problem-solving.
People are ready tp have that delivered by a calm, competent, trustworthy leader.
In a word, depth. Which produces something else which Walker cannot. Trust.
Evers is a Wisconsin born lifelong educator, dedicated to helping children.
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As opposed to Walker, a career self-promoting politician, phony-slick, with that fake little wink and one-dimensional willingness to employ whatever prop or stunt meets his poll-driven, handler-provided, superficial approach at any given, ephemeral moment.
Voters statewide have repeatedly entrusted Evers with overseeing state educational policy for their kids.
That's a trust relationship. Evers reminds people of a teacher they respected, or a teacher who's working with one of their children or grandchildren right now.
Most people like teachers.
Walker dropped a bomb on them.
Mostly to curry favor with anti-union donors far from Wisconsin classrooms whom Walker would connect with at the next fund-raiser and tap for the next campaign, and the next.
Which is why Walker wouldn't score very high on anyone's trust matrix. How would you feel if you walked into a classroom for parent-teacher conferences and saw Walker sitting behind the desk, giving you that little wink?
And now the same question, encountering Evers?
Right.
People know Walker let campaign staffers and gofers into his Milwaukee County Executive office suite to set up their secret Internet communication router to milked the people's resources for partisan and personal gain.
I don't see Evers doing anything like that.
So Walker and his machine will roll out their TV ad offensive - - and I know big money can swing elections - - but I don't think they can make voters fear or hate Tony Evers.
I think people are ready for for what Evers offers - - calm and competence - - which is why they picked Earnell Lucas Tuesday night to finish washing away David Clarke's stain on the public sphere, and why voters here and across the country are looking to launch alternatives to Donald Trump on a restorative blue wave wherever possible.
And speaking of waves, blue and otherwise, this.
When they employ their predictable, scripted, bought-and-paid-for cookie-cutter anti-Evers offensive, GOP operatives just might unleash a wave of Walker fatigue which has been building since the John Doe probes, his dark money-assisted recall campaign, that dopey, arrogant run of his for the Presidency - - and which now gets closer to flooding across the electorate as Walker goes all 30-second-phony-slicker-and-slicker defending the indefensible Foxconn money pit.
I hope Evers talks about clean air, fresh water, cleaner government, better roads and greater schools. Provided without a Walker wink or in sentences that don't track because the mind is engaged in talking point recall, not actual problem-solving.
People are ready tp have that delivered by a calm, competent, trustworthy leader.
