{"id":6124,"date":"2011-06-26T20:52:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T04:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=6124"},"modified":"2016-01-05T21:11:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T05:11:31","slug":"visiting-governor-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=6124","title":{"rendered":"Scott Walker Doesn’t Work Here Anymore."},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>.<\/span> <\/strong>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”.<\/p>\n

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(The subversive ceilings have not yet been painted over).<\/p>\n

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\"\"The security guard had to complete the ruse of checking to see if the Governor was “in his office”.<\/p>\n

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Waiting for the Governor to return from his “off-site meeting”.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Governor’s conference room is absoutley gorgeous, the walls and ceilings adorned with vividly hued historical and allegorical paintings by\u00a0Hugo Ballin<\/a> (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.<\/p>\n

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He doesn’t work here.<\/p>\n

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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[593,592],"class_list":["post-6124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travels","category-the-soapbox","tag-madison-wisconsin-capitol-building-tour","tag-scott-walker-capitol-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6124"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32481,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124\/revisions\/32481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}