Democratic Party of Wisconsin Communications Director Graeme Zielinski was ousted from a campaign event for Republican gubernatorial candidate Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker.
Zielinski said he showed up at the Milwaukee event with the TEMPO women's leadership organization to talk to the press about Milwaukee County delaying the release of their finance report.
According to Zielinski, he was ""disinvited"" from the event, after which he took to Twitter.
""The nasty little racist from the Walker campaign looks straight from central casting,"" he tweeted.
Zielinski later said it was in reference to Walker campaign worker Michael Brickman's tweet from over the summer posting a link to a video of ""C'mon, N' Ride It (The Train),"" featuring African-Americans dancing to the song.
The post was supposed to re-enforce Walker's stance against high-speed rail. However, Zielinski said it was offensive and racist.
Zielinski said that from speaking with the African-American community in Milwaukee, ""they were deeply offended.""
He also said that the Walker campaign apology was really a ""non-apology.""
However, Republican Party of Wisconsin spokesperson Andrew Welhouse said this is the Democrats' way of distracting from the real issues.
It's not surprising that the Democrats are already resorting to event-crashing and gimmicks to try to steal headlines away from the real issues,"" Welhouse said in an e-mail. ""And instead of talking about those issues and how best to get us back on the right track, they're hoping to distract the voters for just long enough.""
Zielinski agreed that this election should be about the issues, not the scandals.
He said what he regrets about the incident was that he did not get a chance to thoroughly talk about the issue with the County finance report.
Quoting HBO's esteemed series, ""The Wire,"" Zielinski said ""the bigger the lie, the more they believe. That's what's going on with Scott Walker.""
