By Alison@Creekside
Back in June in Ottawa, PM Stephen Harper and House Leader Peter Van Loan quietly met with Scott Walker, the anti-SSM anti-abortion anti-union Wisconsin governor whose imminent 2016 Republican presidential candidacy is already teetering atop a pile of Koch Bros. dark money.
When Glen McGregor reported on the meeting, PMO spokesey Stephen Lecce came out of his little spokesbox and said “These aren’t the droids you are looking for,” and went back inside again.
Harper and Walker have so much in common to talk about — union-busting and voter suppression legislation, campaigning on transparency and creating jobs and being completely crap at both, support for tough-on-crime legislation, opposition to gun registration and minimum wage increases and clean energy jobs policies, budget crises due to corporate tax cuts, unfortunate appointments of people who become felons in office … and the Koch-affiliated American Majority creating a “national farm team of conservative leaders” and “training them in guerilla internet tactics.”
Wait. What? American Majority political training group is in Canada?
Why yes it is. On July 4 the Manning Centre for Building Democracy and American Majority sponsored a social media webinar from guns and jesus gal Aubrey Blankenship, communications director of American Majority, to “help you become a better voice for conservatism online.”
I don’t know what Aubrey’s training session on how “to become a better Conservative online” entailed so instead here is one from American Majority’s Austin James teaching Tea Party members to spam Amazon profiles of liberal books with negative comments and bad reviews.
You can still catch another American Majority webinar at the Manning Centre on Aug 10 when Political Communications Expert Jess Nicholson will teach “Crafting Your Message — The art of getting to the heart.”
Okay sure, I hear you thinking, but the Manning Centre sponsors tea party trainers all the time so who cares what dumbass shenanigans American Majority touts at the Manning Centre this year?
Well, because as of 2015, American Majority’s Wisconsin chapter had trained 128 successful candidates for state or local office for Governor Scott Walker.
128. In just one state.