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Scott Walker Learned Early Lessons at Father’s Iowa Church

posted on February 4, 2015

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Jason Stein explores Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s childhood in Plainfield, Iowa, where his father preached at First Baptist Church. “His religious upbringing set a course for the governor’s later life and may boost his presidential bid among evangelicals in this early caucus state,” Stein writes, where growing up in the high-profile position of pastor’s son appears to have first evoked Walker’s interest in civic life.

Read at The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel