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 鈥渉ad never spoken with Mr. Koch before so ... didn鈥檛 know what to expect鈥� 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 鈥済otcha鈥� moment came when Walker suggested to "Mr. Koch" that he had 鈥渢hought about鈥� planting 鈥渢roublemakers鈥� into crowds of union protesters packing the statehouse and the streets outside it during the big fight over collective bargaining.
鈥淚t was a really dumb thing to say," he writes in the memoir. "The fact is we never 鈥� never 鈥� considered putting 鈥榯roublemakers鈥� in the crowd to discredit the protestors. I felt like an idiot.鈥�
