WaPo: Questions Linger Over Scott Walker’s College Exit

It’s still unclear why Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker didn’t complete his degree at Marquette.

In 1990, that news stunned his friends at Marquette University. Walker, the campus’s suit-wearing, Reagan-loving politico — who enjoyed the place so much that he had run for student body president — had left without graduating.

To most of the Class of 1990 — and, later, to Wisconsin’s political establishment — Walker’s decision to quit college has been a lingering mystery.

Not even his friends at Marquette were entirely sure why he never finished. Some had heard that a parent had fallen ill, or maybe there was some financial strain. Others thought he had simply had enough of school…

Walker’s own explanation has been short and simple. He got a job. He meant to go back. But he just never found the time…

Walker was not close to graduating. After four years, he was at least 34 credits short — about one-quarter of the required total away from earning his degree, according to its report. Walker’s political spokeswoman said she would not contest that finding…

“During my senior year at Marquette University, I was offered a full-time job at the American Red Cross. I thought I would squeeze in a course here or there and finish things off in a year or two, but then Tonette and I got married,” Walker said in his State of the State speech in 2013. “Next thing you know, you’re putting all your extra time and money into your kids.”

In his first year after leaving Marquette, though, Walker wasn’t studying and he wasn’t married; he was running for office.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.