(From “Election season brings a change of heart” by Spivak & Bice in the Sunday March 12, 2006 issue of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
What better time to change your position to one more popular with voters than early in a election year?
Following a long tradition of Wisconsin pols, Milwaukee County executive and GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker has decided to flip-flop on one of the hot topics of the day: the death penalty.
Long a foe of capital punishment, Walker put out a statement last week … saying he backs a referendum that would ask voters if they would support the death penalty….
Walker said he had been opposed to the death penalty because he feared the state might execute an innocent person.
Walker’s turnabout caught some of his friends by surprise because he had been an ardent death penalty foe….
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