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America's most powerful labor official released a one-line zinger to mark the end of Scott Walker's campaign

Brett LoGiuratoSep 22, 2015, 02:59 IST

National AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka speaks in Portland, Ore., Monday, May 18, 2015, about the organization's concerns over the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty.AP

America's most powerful union celebrated the apparent end of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's (R) 2016 presidential ambitions with a one-line statement.

"Scott Walker is still a disgrace, just no longer national," said Richard Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO, in the statement.

It was a play on a statement the federation had released the day of Walker's presidential announcement just more than two months ago. Not hiding its disgust with Walker, Trumka said simply that he was a "national disgrace."

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