Newly disclosed emails reveal racist jokes by Scott Walker's ex-aides Source: Journal Sentinel

Newly disclosed emails reveal racist jokes by Scott Walker's ex-aides
Source: Journal Sentinel

Newly disclosed emails reveal racist jokes by Scott Walker's ex-aides
By Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel
Feb. 20, 2014 9:33 a.m.

Madison — Even while arguing for racial outreach from his party, Gov. Scott Walker has had to deal with recent disclosures of racially charged statements from aides, with the latest two examples coming Wednesday in a massive dump of unsealed court documents.

Walker won county executive races in racially diverse Milwaukee County and once called out race-baiter David Duke for his divisive comments. But recent months have revealed embarrassing missteps by aides touching on the most provocative of racial stereotypes.

The issue takes on added significance as Walker is increasingly floated as a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2016 — a race that the GOP candidate will struggle to win without making inroads with minorities.
Unlike past cases, the newest examples coming to light Wednesday in the unsealed documents involved close aides to Walker who served as his No. 2 and No. 3 officials while he served as Milwaukee County executive.

In April 2010, Walker's former deputy chief of staff Kelly Rindfleisch received an emailed joke from a friend about someone whose dogs supposedly qualified for welfare because they are "mixed in color, unemployed, lazy, can't speak English and have no frigging clue who their Daddys are."