When a prankster imitating conservative billionaire David Koch, who is a Walker benefactor, managed to get Gov. Scott Walker on the phone, the outcome threatened to sink his campaign. The governor explains that he “had never spoken with Mr. Koch before so ... didn’t know what to expect” but took the phone call "against my better instincts." He notes in his memoir that a Koch company is a major Green Bay, Wis., employer. The “gotcha” moment came when Walker suggested to "Mr. Koch" that he had “thought about” planting “troublemakers” into crowds of union protesters packing the statehouse and the streets outside it during the big fight over collective bargaining.
“It was a really dumb thing to say," he writes in the memoir. "The fact is we never – never – considered putting ‘troublemakers’ in the crowd to discredit the protestors. I felt like an idiot.”
