New Report: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Holds Nearly Twice As Many Public Events As His Dem Challenger

While Democrat Tony Evers spends his time cozying up to Big Labor to bolster his candidacy, GOP Governor Scott Walker has been hard at work speaking to Wisconsin voters about the issues that impact them.

A new report reveals that Governor Walker has held nearly twice as many public events as Evers since Wisconsin’s gubernatorial primary. Evers has spent most of his time raising money from labor union bosses as Governor Walker has been “participating in flood relief, ground breaking ceremonies, farm tours, and meeting with local officials” throughout the state.

While Tony Evers has made it clear that he’s just another tax-and-spend Democrat, bought-and-paid-for by Big Labor, Governor Walker continues to show that he is committed to hearing from the people of Wisconsin and working to improve their lives.

The Washington Free Beacon reports:

“Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R.) has participated in nearly twice as many public events as his Democratic challenger, Tony Evers, who appears to have been busy working unions over in the state for cash, according to a review of both candidate’s public activity.                     

The review was conducted from the day of the Wisconsin primaries, August 15, to late September using all available online activity documenting public events by the campaigns. Travel was determined using social media, events that were covered by the media, and events advised by the campaigns given the candidate’s entire personal and political schedules are not publicly available. 

From August 15 to September 24, Walker participated in 93 public events to Evers’s 50 public events. Walker’s schedule included the likes of primary events, meeting with flood victims and participating in flood relief, ground breaking ceremonies, farm tours, and meeting with local officials, while Evers’s events included stops at restaurants, rallies, tours as towns prepared for flooding, tailgating with University of Wisconsin-Madison college Democrats, and press conferences and picnics with a number of unions.

Additionally, there are 16 total days since the primaries where Evers did not participate in any public events.

Throughout the month of September, Evers hauled in hundreds of thousands of dollars from unions, which successfully attempted to defeat Walker through a recall election in 2012. Nearly all of the committee money that went to Evers in September was from the sector, his September finance report shows. The Democratic candidate hauled in $714,511 from committees throughout the month, $611,000 of which came from union-affiliated committees. 

Evers pulled in a majority of his union cash from the North Central States Regional Council of Carpenter, AFSCME PEOPLE, International Union of Operating Engineers Local 139, Laborer’s International Union of North America, Wisconsin Laborers District Council, and the Wisconsin Education Association’s PAC, all of which gathered together $86,000 for a combined $430,000 for Evers’s campaign.”