Scott Walker, do you still "stand with" this statement?

Photo credit:  State of Wisconsin

Walker and Barrett debate.  (Wisconsin Radio Network, 5/25/2012) 

Apparently, the answer is "yes", as this is what we heard from the Governor's spokesman the other day.

“Gov. Walker took an oath of office to uphold the constitution of the state of Wisconsin that defines traditional marriage as passed by the voters as well as the laws of the state that also bar discrimination based on race, gender, age or sexual orientation.”

Wisconsin Attorney J. B. Van Hollen is singing a similar tune.  “As Attorney General, I have an obligation to uphold Wisconsin law and our Constitution." 

And he twice uses the word "oath" in this op-ed piece.

Other same-sex marriage posts:
In Scott Walker's case, not "taking the bait" means weaseling his way through the campaign.  (7/7/2014)
From the why-is-this-news department.   (6/15/2014)
Somebody needs lessons in leadership.  (6/15/2014)
To be an attorney, you need to graduate from college.  (5/27/2014)
Your state tax dollars at work (to keep Walker's base happy).  (3/25/2014) 
Did you know that it's National Heterosexual Marriage Week USA?   (2/8/2014)
What else would you expect from someone who needs to pander to a Tea-Party base in order to keep his dim 2016 hopes alive? (2/6/2014)
Virginia Republicans hang down their heads.  (1/6/2014)
Beware of Cal Thomas.  (4/1/2013)

In Scott Walker's Case, Not "Taking the Bait" Means Weaseling His Way Through the Campaign

Social issues spill into the governor's race. (Wisconsin State Journal,7/6/2014)

Looks like the dam broke, Scotty.   Gov. Scott Walker began the year warning his fellow Republicans across the country to avoid “taking the bait” on divisive social issues, arguing that the GOP should instead focus on the economy.

Especially since the economy is such a winner for him! 

So sayeth spokesman Tom Evenson.

Other same-sex marriage posts:
From the why-is-this-news department.   (6/15/2014)
Somebody needs lessons in leadership.  (6/15/2014)
To be an attorney, you need to graduate from college.  (5/27/2014)
Your state tax dollars at work (to keep Walker's base happy).  (3/25/2014) 
Did you know that it's National Heterosexual Marriage Week USA?   (2/8/2014)
What else would you expect from someone who needs to pander to a Tea-Party base in order to keep his dim 2016 hopes alive? (2/6/2014)
Virginia Republicans hang down their heads.  (1/6/2014)
Beware of Cal Thomas.  (4/1/2013)

Jim Brosnan, Who Threw Literature a Curve, Dies at 84. (The New York Times, 7/4/2014)

Paving the way for Angell, Kahn, and Bouton.  In 1959, Brosnan, who played nine years in the major leagues, kept a diary of his experience as a pitcher, first with the St. Louis Cardinals and later, after a trade, with the Cincinnati Reds. Published the next year as “The Long Season,” it was a new kind of sportswriting — candid, shrewd and highly literate, more interested in presenting the day-to-day lives and the actual personalities of the men who played the game than in maintaining the fiction of ballplayers as all-American heroes and role models. 

I was 10 years old when The Long Season was published.  At that point in my life, I was reading what Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley refers to as hagiographic biographies of stars written for adolescents -- and wouldn't have been able to define "hagiographic" to save my young life. 

Fortunately, the Madison Public Library still owns a copy, the only one available in LINKcat, so I can read for myself what all the fuss was about.  Brosnan was called a "kooky beatnik" by Joe Garagiola, a journeyman back-up catcher who went on to become, in my estimation, the 2nd most annoying baseball announcer in history.  (Tim McCarver will also be my #1)

Must say something about catchers and the broadcast booth. 


Society for American Baseball Research:  Jim Brosnan