Wisconsin Governor Gets Prank Called

An editor from a New York based-alternative newspaper had a candid telephone conversation with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker after pretending to be billionaire conservative David Koch.

The call, placed by Ian Murphy of the Buffalo Beast, covered a myriad of issues, including the Governor’s strategy to lure Democratic lawmakers back to the states by locking their paychecks in their Senate desks and a plan to promise a talk with the lawmakers in the Capitol, but then hold a vote once they recess.

Murphy, posing as Koch, also suggests placing agent-provocateurs within the crowds gathered outside the state’s Capitol, a notion that Walker says his office considered, but rejected. It closed with Murphy inviting the Governor out to “Cali” for a “good time.”

A spokesperson for Walker told reporters that the call shows that “the Governor says the same thing in private as he does in public.”