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Prank Call Sheds Light on Presidential Candidate Scott Walker’s Strategy

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Since Scott Walker is announcing his 2016 presidential run today, Brad Friedman thought it would be a good time to revisit the audio of a prank phone call to him from "David Koch" during the height of Walker's union-busting campaign. The call was a prank, but Walker had no idea.

In today’s radio Bradcast show, Brad Friedman begins by playing a clip of Hillary Clinton during her first national policy speech since declaring her run for the 2016 democratic nomination. She took an opportunity to take a shot at Jeb Bush.

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“You may have heard Governor Bush say last week that Americans just need to work longer hours. Well he must not have met very many American workers. Let him tell that to the nurse that stands on her feet all day, or the teacher that stands in the classroom or the trucker that drives all night…They don’t need a lecture, they need a raise.”

Clinton goes on to say that the current rules for the US economy does reward some work, like financial trading for example. But the work that is the actual backbone of the economy like building and selling things does not receive fair wages. “To get all the incomes rising again we need to strike a bigger balance. If you work hard you ought to be paid fairly…”

Following this clip, Friedman speculates on Clinton’s speech, how much she actually means when she reads her speech in front of the public. Also what she was saying has been said by Bernie Sanders for the past forty years so it is nothing new really.

Radio Sputnik’s host then talks about the prank call that was made to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. The governor is announcing his presidential run; hence, Friedman decided it was a good time to mention the things Walker said when he assumed he was talking to somebody else.

The conversation took place back in 2011. The actual clip is played during the broadcast, shedding some light on the governors inside strategy of ‘crushing the unions’ and ‘unusual’ methods such as: planting troublemakers amongst the protestors.

Following that scandalous clip, Freidman goes on to talk to the person Ian Murphy who made the prank call to the governor.

The call pulled back the sheets and shed light on what sort of trickery Scott Walker was trying to pull off. Murphy confirms that the conversation was posted like it is without any editing; therefore it gives a real narrative of the governor who accidentally gave a little too much information for his own good.

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