Walker Aide Quits After Iowa GOP Calls For Her Resignation

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Liz Mair, a political adviser recently hired by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R), resigned from her position after the Iowa Republican Party demanded that she step down, the Associated Press reported.

Mair criticized Iowa and its role as the first caucus state on Twitter, leading Iowa GOP Chairman Jeff Kauffman to call her “shallow and ignorant.”

“The tone of some of my tweets concerning Iowa was at odds with that which Gov. Walker has always encouraged in political discourse,” Mair said in a statement to the Associated Press. “I wish Gov. Walker and his team all the best.”

During an Iowa forum with potential 2016 candidates in January, Mair wrote on Twitter, “in other news, I see Iowa is once again embarrassing itself, and the GOP, this morning. Thanks guys.”

She also opined on ethanol subsidies in Iowa.

Mair was hired by Walker’s team to handle online communications for his potential presidential campaign. Mair said on Twitter Wednesday morning that she would continue to work as a strategist with her firm, but for a new client.

Following the Associated Press report that Mair resigned from her role with Walker’s national operation, she defended her statements on Twitter.

Mair also took the opportunity to criticize Rep. Steve King (R-IA), who hosted the Iowa Freedom Summit in January.

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  1. Avatar for sjk sjk says:

    She a communicator alright!

  2. I like her !

    But what does a nice girl, like her, do in a place like that ?

  3. She had me until she went all cult-ish with her “some of the things I said were at odds with what Walker believes” nonsense. I think she was echoing what the people inside the zombieWalker camp were thinking but made the mistake of saying it out loud.

    I’m sure she will find a way to burrow herself back in the club though. Quietly, of course.

  4. First rule of Fight Club is… never talk about Fight Club.

  5. Obviously, someone who says what she thinks is a liability to an aspiring presidential campaign.

    But she’s certainly got Steve King’s number and I can see why the Iowa GOP insisted she had to go. Iowa Republicans can’t do anything about the message so they can only shoot the messenger. And they certainly couldn’t afford to wait around until she got to Joni Ernst.

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