Scott Walker, at Kochfest, defends subsidy for NBA’s Bucks

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DANA POINT, CALIF.–Minutes before Charles Koch took the stage to rail against corporate welfare at the gathering of his donor network, Gov. Scott Walker sat down for an interview with reporter Mike Allen. Allen asked a tough question about Walker’s proposed corporate welfare for Milwaukee’s NBA team. Here was the exchange:


MIKE ALLEN: Now, Governor, as you know, what a number of your fellow small government conservatives are saying to me is, how in the hell could you support using taxpayer money for a stadium for an NBA team co-owned by a billionaire raising money for Hillary Clinton?

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