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Scott Walker- “Testing the Waters” at Road to Majority Conference

The Wisconsin governor was the keynote speaker at the Road to Majority conference Saturday night dinner. Speaking to a gathering of religious conservatives, Scott Walker began his speech asking for a moment of prayer for the “nine brothers and sisters in Christ who were taken on Wednesday in the Charleston shooting. Walker then called the shooting a “racist and evil act.”

The crowd of several hundred ended the conference with a dinner gave Walker a very enthusiastic reception. Walker, an evangelical Christian, pointed out the forgiveness from the family members of the victims stating, "They showed us, they showed their community, they showed their state, they showed their country,

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