Walker shared the video and tweeted, “Living rent free in the head of @TheOtherMandela. I hope he doesn’t expect me to pay his property tax bill.”
Mandela Barnes, the Democrat who will run against U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) this fall, thinks he’s running against Scott Walker.
“This year we finally have the chance to get rid of Scott Walker, one of the worst senators this state has ever had,” Barnes said of the former governor, who never served in the Senate.
Watch the video here:
“This year we finally have the chance to get rid of Scott Walker, one of the worst senators this state has ever had,” says Dem candidate Mandela Barnes, apparently meaning to reference Ron Johnson. (Former Gov. Scott Walker, of course, was never a senator) pic.twitter.com/0cH1IYPYgy
— Natalie Allison (@natalie_allison) July 27, 2022
Walker shared the video and tweeted, “Living rent free in the head of @TheOtherMandela. I hope he doesn’t expect me to pay his property tax bill.”
Living rent free in the head of @TheOtherMandela
I hope he doesn’t expect me to pay his property tax bill. https://t.co/pvE7d3XONe
— Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) July 27, 2022
In 2019, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Barnes “walked out of an interview with a reporter for WITI-TV (Channel 6) when asked about his delinquent property taxes on his Milwaukee condo.”
The Journal Sentinel reported that Barnes was “listed as being delinquent on his 2018 tax bill of $2,225. He also has not paid the $70 balance on his 2017 taxes.” Barnes and Tony Evers said the check was in the mail.
The Mandela Barnes gaffe came after Democrats cleared the field of other major candidates to make way for Barnes, a radical, anti-police former legislator who serves as Tony Evers’ lieutenant governor.
Walker responded with a number of tweets about Barnes, including, “Democrats rally behind a radical who wants to end cash bail so criminals like the driver in the Waukesha Christmas Parade Massacre are out on the street.”
He added: “A radical who wants to end the patrol that supposed to protect us from illegal drugs and firearms coming across the border and finding their way to Wisconsin.”
Continued Walker, “A radical who has no problem voting to make hard-working taxpayers pay more but doesn’t have a problem that he couldn’t pay his property taxes tickets on time.”
Read our previous story about 7 shameful Mandela Barnes’ moments here.
