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Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) It takes some chutzpah to run for president when you've faced major investigations into your fundraising practices, but Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's chutzpah doesn't stop at running for president under those circumstances. Over the weekend, Walker lashed out at the investigations into his and his aides' practices, characterizing them as "largely a political witch hunt": "I said even if you're a liberal Democrat, you should look at (the raids) and be frightened to think that if the government can do that against people of one political persuasion, they can do it against anybody, and more often than not we need protection against the government itself," Walker told the radio station. The first "political witch hunt," as Walker would put it, or "John Doe investigation," as the law would put it, yielded six convictions, including a Walker appointee convicted of embezzlement and aides convicted of doing political work for Walker while on government payroll.

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