Earlier I posted the audio of the now infamous prank call made to Scott Walker by Fake David Koch. In that post, I noted Thom Hartmann’s suggestion that there could be Nixonesque legal repercussions for Walker.
Ezra Klein disagrees, and points to another major issue revealed in the call… for our side:
To Walker’s credit, he doesn’t say anything incriminating. When Murphy/Koch offers to plant demonstrators, Walker declines. The worst you can say is that when Murphy/Koch makes a lewd comment about Mika Breszinski, Walker doesn’t challenge him on it. But that portion reads to me as Walker politely grunting in response to an odd provocation. I imagine politicians are pretty good at gently moving the conversation along when their contributors say crazy things.
But if the transcript of the conversation is unexceptional, the fact of it is lethal. The state’s Democratic senators can’t get Walker on the phone, but someone can call the governor’s front desk, identify themselves as David Koch, and then speak with both the governor and his chief of staff? That’s where you see the access and power that major corporations and wealthy contributors will have in a Walker administration, and why so many in Wisconsin are reluctant to see the only major interest group representing workers taken out of the game.
And that is why this is more about democracy, not the budget. This is about the survival of workers, of the middle class, and of the Democratic party.
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