Gotcha! Scott Walker Punked by Climate Activist on Campaign Trail
Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker became the butt of a political joke in New Hampshire on Monday, when an environmental activist tricked the Wisconsin governor into posing with an oversized check for $900 million, made out to Walker and “signed” by the conservative, climate-denying Koch brothers.
Tyler McFarland, a 23-year-old organizer with the group 350 Action, approached Walker at Theo’s Pizza & Restaurant in Manchester for a picture while holding a sign that read “Walker 4 president.”
However, just as the photo was snapped, McFarland flipped the sign to reveal the $900 million check from the Koch brothers, with the word “Presidency” written on the memo line.
“I’d like to present you with this check from the Koch brothers for climate denial,” McFarland told Walker, who reportedly did not engage and chose instead to brush the incident off and continue mingling with actual supporters.
Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch said earlier this year that they plan to spend approximately $900 million during the 2016 campaign cycle—and that their top choice for the White House was Walker.
And in a piece for The Nation published last week, John Nichols noted that “[a]lthough this preacher’s son has developed a reputation for peddling many versions of the truth, Scott Walker never lies to billionaires who write campaign checks.”
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