{"id":8882,"date":"2011-10-17T16:52:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T00:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=8882"},"modified":"2011-10-17T16:52:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T00:52:09","slug":"scott-walker%e2%80%99s-union-busting-kochmonster-rat-minionrecalled-senator-nabbed-for-dui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=8882","title":{"rendered":"Scott Walker\u2019s Union-Busting, Kochmonster Rat Minion\/Recalled Senator Nabbed for DUI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8883\" title=\"hopper\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/hopper.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/>He won his senate seat by a mere 200 votes, then was unseated in a recall election stemming from Gov. Scott Walker&#8217;s anti-public employee union legislation\u00a0in August, yet still thought he could get away with driving shitfaced. Sunday night, jaundiced former Wisconsin state Sen. Randy Hopper was arrested while drunkenly careening his black Suburban down a highway. He&#8217;s like an alcoholic, modern day Paul Revere!\u00a0I love that the party of &#8220;family values&#8221; is always good for a sleazy sex scandal and\/or drunk driving arrest once a month!\u00a0Not only did this depraved Republithug help pass an illegal bill stripping workers of basic labor rights, he wasn&#8217;t even <em>living in his own district <\/em>when he did it!\u00a0He&#8217;d been caught shacking up with a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wkow.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=14297886\">25-year-old lobbyist<\/a> for a firm whose clients include organizations funded by the Koch Brothers by the name of \u00a0&#8211; get this &#8211; <em> &#8220;Persuasion Partners&#8221; <\/em>(I&#8217;m sure her parents are happy that they only have one daughter to lay down for their country, er, state!) The best part of this story: This information became public when protesters gathered outside of Hopper&#8217;s Fond du Lac home and Hopper&#8217;s <em>own maid<\/em> came out and signed the recall petition. Then <em>his wife <\/em>came out and told the crowd that Hopper wasn&#8217;t there because he was living in Madison with his mistress! He faces charges of \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.merge-left.org\/2011\/03\/13\/election-fraud-wi-gop-state-sen-hopper-could-face-perjury-and-voter-fraud-charges\/\">perjury and voter fraud.\u00a0And theft.<\/a> I bet this is totally being investigated, because Republicans are always talking about cracking down all all that voter fraud out there.\u00a0Family Values Republican, ditching his wife and kids to shack up with a lobbyist half his age and getting her a plum job. Then pulls a DUI with aforementioned climber\/home-wrecker. 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