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PeaceNikki

(27,985 posts)
Tue Feb 24, 2015, 11:32 PM Feb 2015

Scott Walker Refuses To Provide Transcripts Of Conversations With Nonexistent God

by Dan Weber
Feb 24 2:00 pm 2015
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Ayyyyyyyy, this guy!

And so it came to pass that the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) submitted a lulzy public records request to the office of Christianist Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. What, FFRF asked, was the substance of the Governor’s conversations with one Jesus H. Christ, formerly of Nazareth?

The Office of the Governor in Wisconsin has no record of communications between Gov. Scott Walker and any deities, according to the office’s legal counsel.

While it’s on the record that the governor is communicating with higher powers like billionaire and political kingmaker Sheldon Adelson, that’s where the paper trail ends.

BA-ZING! We think.

The request was submitted by Edward Susterich, an FFRF member who appears to be contemptuous of both the beliefs of theists and the precious time of one David J. Rabe, the assistant counsel in Walker’s office who had to respond to Susterich’s letter. The full request — the actual words he typed and then sent to the appropriate government agency — read as follows: “Since your terms as governor, please provide a copy/transcript of all communications with God, the Lord, Christ, Jesus, or any other form of deity.” FULL STOP.

The Founding Fathers envisioned a nation of citizen-trolls like Edward Susterich, so Yr Wonket would like to congratulate him on getting an official response. This is how we call our elected officials to account. This is why an earlier generation of reformers passed a public records law in the first place.


Read more at http://wonkette.com/577326/scott-walker-refuses-to-provide-transcripts-of-conversations-with-nonexistent-god#4EZJ6PUig6yHspRz.99

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Scott Walker Refuses To Provide Transcripts Of Conversations With Nonexistent God (Original Post) PeaceNikki Feb 2015 OP
That is great! Manifestor_of_Light Feb 2015 #1
I recently heard Walker say he was still waiting on "the word" from God RussBLib Feb 2015 #2
 

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)
1. That is great!
Tue Feb 24, 2015, 11:39 PM
Feb 2015

I'm smiling because I was a court reporter for twenty years, and a legal secretary before that!! I know how important the transcript is, since I cranked out a few zillion of them in civil and criminal, state and Federal court.

<---Those are done in my former capacity as a licensed court reporter.

RussBLib

(9,006 posts)
2. I recently heard Walker say he was still waiting on "the word" from God
Fri Feb 27, 2015, 12:04 AM
Feb 2015

...as to whether he was going to run for President or not.

We really do not need leaders who are hearing disembodied voices in their heads. In the old days, that would be labeled insanity and get you locked up in the attic. These days, you're either a ruthless, greedy little liar or you need to change your meds.

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