MADISON, Wis. (AP) – As Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Rebecca Bradley has come under fire for provocative writings during her long-ago college years, Gov. Scott Walker has faced questions about whether he knew about them as he appointed her to judgeships three times.
Walker says whether he knew about them is irrelevant now, and Bradley says she never talked with Walker about them.
But the conservative justice’s political opponents have said Walker must have been aware of Bradley’s views from the period. Their personal and political lives have been intertwined for decades.
Their time at Marquette University overlapped one year. They both expressed their conservative ideas in the student paper, though Bradley’s sharpest writings didn’t come until Walker had left school. And one of Walker’s closest advisers was a Marquette student senator alongside Bradley.