Scott Walker

Washington GOP Gubernatorial Hopeful Distances From Scott Walker

Brian Beutler | March 25, 2011, 1:00PM

Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI)

We know conservative politicians in safe districts are happy to align themselves with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. In fact, they fawn over him. But for vulnerable pols, or hopefuls in battleground states and districts, it's a different story.

Take Washington state's Republican Attorney General Rob McKenna, who aspires to be governor.

Washington Dems tried to mark McKenna with Walker's taint, in an ad in The Olympian. "If you like what Governor Scott Walker is doing in Wisconsin... you will love Rob McKenna as Washington State's Governor."

McKenna wants no part of that association -- even though he's publicly taken position's similar to Walker's in the recent past.

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Health care lawsuits

Washington Attorney General Suing Over Health Care Says It's Not A 'Right'

Christina Bellantoni | April 2, 2010, 9:46AM

Attorney General Rob McKenna (R-WA)

Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna said yesterday that state officials suing the federal government over health care reform are in active conversations to try and convince the rest of the nation's attorneys general to join.

McKenna (R) said in an online chat hosted by the Seattle Times that he does not believe health care is a "right" and deflected critics who believe that the lawsuit he and more than a dozen other states have joined will not be upheld.

"Health care as 'right' is a policy argument, not found in the law," McKenna said. "Supporting this lawsuit means that the Constitution still matters and that every law has to be constitutional in its details, and the rest of the unchallenged law is unaffected."

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