{"id":13068,"date":"2014-02-20T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13068"},"modified":"2014-02-20T14:14:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T14:14:54","slug":"nightmare-for-us-governors-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13068","title":{"rendered":"‘Nightmare’ for US governor’s aide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Scott Walker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wisconsin Governor and potential 2016 GOP contender Scott Walker has many enemies on the left.<\/p>\n

THE NIGHTMARE, reproduced in full below, was forwarded in 2010 by Thomas Nardelli, who was Walker\u2019s chief-of-staff when he served as Milwaukee County Executive, to an undisclosed number of recipients, including Walker\u2019s deputy chief-of-staff, Kelly Rindfleisch. Walker, who was elected governor later that year, went on to earn national notoriety for passing legislation aimed at dismantling the political power of Wisconsin\u2019s public-sector unions. Nardelli became a full-time consultant.<\/p>\n

Nardelli isn\u2019t the only Walker official in trouble. The Republican fired his deputy finance director in December after the aide\u2019s two-year-old tweets, one of which read, \u201cI will choke that illegal mex cleaning in the library\u201d, came to light.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the email:<\/p>\n

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THE NIGHTMARE<\/p>\n

In the nightmare I found myself nude in bed, and I was looking at a mirror on the ceiling, and I discovered that I am a Negro, and I\u2019m circumcised!<\/p>\n

Quickly I sat up, found my pants and looked in the pockets to find my driver\u2019s license photo and it was that same color, black.<\/p>\n

I felt myself being very depressed, downcast, sitting in a chair.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s a wheelchair! That means, of course, besides being black and Jewish, I\u2019m also disabled! I said to myself, aloud \u201cThis is impossible! It\u2019s impossible that I should be black and Jewish and disabled!\u201d \u201cIt’s the pure and holy truth,\u201d whispers someone from behind me. I turn around, and it\u2019s my boyfriend.<\/p>\n

Just what I needed!!! I am a homosexual, and on top of that, with a Mexican boyfriend.<\/p>\n

Oh, my God …. Black, Jewish, disabled, gay with a Mexican boyfriend, drug addict, and HIV-positive!!!<\/p>\n

Desperate, I begin to shout, cry, pull my hair, and Oh, nooooo…I\u2019m bald!!!<\/p>\n

The telephone rings. it\u2019s my brother. He is saying, \u2018Since mom and dad died, the only thing you do is hang out, take drugs, and laze around all day doing nothing. Get a job, you worthless piece of crap… Any job!\u2019<\/p>\n

Mom? Dad? Nooooo … Now I\u2019m also an unemployed orphan! I try to explain to my brother how hard it is to find a job when you are black, Jewish, disabled, gay with a Mexican boyfriend, are a drug addict, HIV positive, bald, and an orphan, but he doesn\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n

Frustrated, I hang up. It\u2019s then I realize I only have one hand!!! With tears in my eyes, I go to the window to look out. I see I live in a shanty-town full of cardboard and tin houses! There is trash everywhere.<\/p>\n

Suddenly I feel a sharp pain near my pacemaker…. Pacemaker??<\/p>\n

Besides being black, Jewish, disabled, a fairy with a Mexican boyfriend, a drug addict, HIV positive, bald, orphaned, unemployed, an invalid with one hand, and having a bad heart, I live in a crappy neighborhood.<\/p>\n

At that very moment my boyfriend approaches and says to me, \u2018Sweetie pie, my love, my little black heartthrob, have you decided what you are going to wear to Washington to see Obama?\u2019<\/p>\n

Say it isn\u2019t so!!! I can handle being a black, disabled, one-armed, drug-addicted, Jewish homosexual on a pacemaker who is HIV positive, bald, orphaned, unemployed, lives in a slum, and has a Mexican boyfriend, but please, Oh dear God, please don\u2019t tell me I’m a Democrat!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wisconsin Governor and potential 2016 GOP contender Scott Walker has many enemies on the left. THE NIGHTMARE, reproduced in full below, was forwarded in 2010 by Thomas Nardelli, who was Walker\u2019s chief-of-staff when he served as Milwaukee County Executive, to an undisclosed number of recipients, including Walker\u2019s deputy chief-of-staff, Kelly Rindfleisch. Walker, who was elected … Continue reading “‘Nightmare’ for US governor’s aide”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[8399,8402,8401,8400],"class_list":["post-13068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-scott-walker","tag-the-nightmare","tag-thomas-nardelli","tag-wisconsin-governor"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/scottwalker.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13070,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13068\/revisions\/13070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}