No room for Walker
Congressional hearings are usually pretty boring affairs. A few lawmakers posturing for cameras, witnesses reading from prepared texts and reporters trying to stay awake - who would whine about not being invited to that?
County Exec Scott Walker, that's who.
The county's top elected official asked to speak at the House Administration Committee's traveling road show when it stopped in Milwaukee the other dayto hear testimony about irregularities in the 2004 election.
Walker was offended that, as the top Republican in the courthouse, he wasn't invited to speak and his request to provide testimony was ignored.
Could it be maybe, just maybe, the fact that U.S. Rep. Mark Green is on the House committee and that he happens to be running against Walker for the GOP gubernatorial nomination played a role in keeping Walker away from the TV cameras covering the event?
"You'd like to hope not, but there sure isn't any information for me to think not," Walker's chief of staff, Jim Villa, responded, using his "I'm deeply hurt" voice.
Green's people, on the other hand, were shocked - shocked - that Walker thought politics had crept into a congressional hearing.
Rather, Chris Tuttle, Green's flack, said that by that by the time Walker asked to speak, the witness list had been set and there just wasn't any more room.
Especially for a political opponent.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/oct05/366746.asp
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