I couldn’t really have left Madison without at least making an effort to barge into Scott Walker’s office at the state capitol. Rising like a beacon between Lake Monona and Lake Mendota, the capitol building is absolutely beautiful. The majestic granite structure accenting the Madison skyline was built in 1917 and styled after the council chambers of the Doge’s Palace in Venice. It’s where Scott Walker “works”.
(The subversive ceilings have not yet been painted over).
The security guard had to complete the ruse of checking to see if the Governor was “in his office”.
Waiting for the Governor to return from his “off-site meeting”.
The Governor’s conference room is absoutley gorgeous, the walls and ceilings adorned with vividly hued historical and allegorical paintings by Hugo Ballin (Griffith Park Observatory). Since there apparently were no “meetings in session”, I fussed with the flags. When it became painfully obvious that the Governor wasn’t going to show up for “work” anytime soon, that he didn’t work there at all, I gave up and left. Speaking to locals roaming around the capitol, I learned that the Wisconsin Teabagger Governor is persona non grata in the state’s capitol, WHERE HIS JOB IS, so the pantywaist cloisters himself in his home in Milwaukee.
He doesn’t work here.
