Even Walker's campaign admits more K-12 funding is a pre-election stunt

File this story in the “you knew it was coming” category.

A tiny Oneida County school district has banned political activity by officials during school hours after a board member, two teachers and a student appeared in a television ad paid for by Gov. Scott Walker's re-election campaign — surprising parents and school officials.

Walker is airing a campaign ad on television stations statewide featuring the Three Lakes School District and its work implementing the state's first school-based fabrication laboratory, known as Fab Labs, which teaches engineering and materials processing and allows students to apply textbook physics and math to real-world projects.

Gee, who could not have guessed that Scott Walker would use students and teachers as props to promote his own campaign? Well, apparently the pro-GOP superintendent of Three Lakes.

"I know for a fact they (the school board) weren’t thinking about an ad and I know I wasn’t thinking about an ad, a campaign ad,” (Superintendent George) Karling told the newspaper. “My idea was it was good for him (Walker) to see our Fab Lab because we were teaching other districts on that day. And that’s what it was.”

Karling, who has donated to Republicans in the past, told the News-Review the matter was a "lapse" on his part. He said the district got involved in the filming after Sen. Tom Tiffany (R-Hazelhurst) asked him if he could find some within the district who "might thank the governor for sparsity aid and direct per-pupil aid."

You mean he might not be doing this all for the kids?

Hey George! Why do you think a sleaze like Toxic Tommy Tiffany might have asked you that leading question? Do you really think Tiffany or Walker have any kind of natural curiosity about how things work, when the last several years has shown they don’t? Sounds like another episode of one of my favorite Republican shows : “LYING OR STUPID?”

The Walker campaign responded in its typical classy style, choosing “STUPID” for Mr. Karling, and claiming that the Three Lakes district should have known better.

Brian Reisinger, spokesman for Walker's campaign, supplied the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel with a July 15 email from the campaign to Karling with an attached form on campaign letterhead for film participants to allow the footage to be used for commercial broadcasting purposes, among other things.

The form features Walker's name on the letterhead and says the footage can be used for any broadcast purpose, but does not explicitly mention campaign ads.

Which means the Walker campaign is admitting that when Walker went to these schools, he was doing it as a campaign photo op, and not as part of his job as Governor. That shouldn’t surprise anyone, as most of us could figure out that this pre-election funding of schools was solely to try to cover up Walker’s attacks on public education over the previous 6 years.

But as a Wisconsinite, Reisinger’s admission does make me ask a question – “Has Scott Walker’s campaign paid for the travel and security related to these school photo ops, or have you dumped that onto taxpayers like me?” Sure seems like it’s time to file an Open Records request and find out if this lifetime grifter has found another way to leech off of the “hard-working taxpayers of Wisconsin.”

This cynical garbage is exactly why this is the Scott Walker 2018 theme song.