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Scott Walker Promised $500K Donor He Would 'Divide and Conquer' Unions

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And he is doing so with Hendricks, a notoriously anti-union employer, who would donate $10,000 to Walker's campaign just days after the January 18, 2011, conversation. A year later, as the recall loomed, she would up the ante with that $500,000 donation -- making her the top donor to the embattled governor.

Though Hendricks did not respond to calls from the Journal Sentinel and other news outlets for comment, it is fair to say that she must have liked what she heard from Walker. And she must have been pleased his "first step" in the "divide and conquer" strategy of attacking Wisconsin unions.

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