Subject: [big campaign] Walker's Real Record on Stem Cells: Ban Embryonic Stem Cell Research
From: Aniello Alioto <[email-masked]>
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:10:23 -0400
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FYI...

We have much more dirt on this dirty-talker, dirty-Walker... please contact
me off list if you can help echo & hammer this cheese-for-brains.

One Wisconsin Now has been pounding Walker for some time now... we welcome
any and all help.

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*For Immediate Release
October 20, 2010*
*Contact: Robert Doeckel
Phone: 608-217-0194*

 Walker’s Real Record on Stem Cells: Ban Embryonic Stem Cell Research *After
Doyle Veto of Embryonic Stem Cell Threat, Walker Campaign in 2005 Said
‘Governor Walker Would Sign These Bills in a Heartbeat’*

Madison -- Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker refuses to admit he would
support a ban on embryonic stem cell research if elected governor, but
Walker told supporters in 2005 he would have signed a bill Gov. Jim Doyle
vetoed at the time that was a direct threat to embryonic stem cell research.
Walker told his supporters of the ban in the November 10, 2005 “Walker
Weekly,” an electronic newsletter during his failed previous bid for
governor.

“Scott Walker would ban embryonic stem cell research and that’s coming
straight from the horse’s mouth,” said Scot Ross, One Wisconsin Now
Executive Director. “Not only is Scott Walker, endorsed by the extremists
who required opposition to embryonic stem cell research, but also Walker
said it in 2005.”

Walker’s campaign quote, from the “Walker Weekly” published days after Gov.
Doyle’s veto, read:

“In just the last 10 days Jim Doyle has vetoed or hinted at vetoing a ban on
all human cloning, requiring true parental notification for a minor having
an abortion, and requiring that mothers are aware of fetal pain with an
abortion at 20 weeks or beyond. There is no reason to discuss these issues:
Governor Walker would sign these bills in a heartbeat.” [Source: “The Walker
Weekly,” 11/10/05]

The bill Walker would have signed was 2005 Assembly Bill 499, which experts
said would severely hamper stem cell research in Wisconsin. Amendments which
would have protected embryonic stem cell research from potential threats
were voted down in both then-Republican-controlled chambers of the state
legislature. [2005 AA1- & SA1-AB499]

Doyle vetoed the threat to embryonic stem cell research on November 3, 2005,
at an event at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Biotechnology Center in
which he was joined by James Thomson, the pioneer of embryonic stem cell
research. “[Thomson] said the perception that Wisconsin is anti-science is a
serious concern to young researchers who are considering where to set up
shop.” [*Milwaukee Journal Sentinel*, 11/4/05]

“Scott Walker opposes the promise of embryonic stem cell research,” said
Ross. “Scott Walker is not only a threat to the incalculable promise of stem
cell research to rid us of disease and treat injuries, but also he is threat
to the tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars economic
development embryonic stem cell research represents for people in every
corner of Wisconsin.”

The governor’s office reports Wisconsin is home to 600 bioscience companies,
11 stem cell companies and 34,000 jobs through bioscience.

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