Since Barrett was not being recalled, he was limited. This explains why Walker, after raising $31 million has only $1.6 in the bank. He spent most of it on TV ads before March 30 and sent another $160K into his legal defense fund.
All this ignores the SuperPac spending which is unregulated and unreported.
Walker said he did. Do have proof he stated a falsehood?
There is no presumption of innocence. This here is a court of public opinion, not law, and so is the recall election.
He made a call to the DA about an employee of his, as was his duty. This is a fact.
If this was not true wouldn’t it be all over the interwebs?
Wait, now, do you have any cite for that “fact” other than Walker’s own press release?
Yet. No charges have been filed yet on anyone. See below.
It is. Haven’t you noticed?
:rolleyes: Please don’t ever do that again. Al Gore:
Never claimed to have invented the Internet.
Actually did invent it, to the extent any politician could claim that.
Not in a John Doe proceeding, I should think. Names will be named, and other details disclosed, when the Grand Jury brings its indictments, not before.
OK, you got me. I have no cites other than the word of a Governor of the United States (you know how they lie).
But in a year and a half or so you will admit you were wrong about the John Doe?
Wiki:Prosecution of most crimes must be commenced within a certain time period that is established by a statute of limitation. The state generally has six years to commence prosecution of a felony (a crime for which a person may be sentenced to one year or more in prison) and three years for a misdemeanor (a crime for which the maximum penalty is a year in jail).
You’re right. A Governor of the United States would *never *lie.
The excluded middle,yes, thanks.
BrainG, I didn’t answer your question.
Says the guy who accused someone of thinking that all governors lie.
OK, Scott Walker is a big fat liar and soon the good people of Wisconsin will rise together and smote the foe that darkens their doorway. Better?
FE3O4ENAIL:
BrainG, I didn’t answer your question.
:rolleyes: He wouldn’t know either, not until the John Doe proceeding reaches indictment-stage.
From your typing-fingers!
You’re right, it wasn’t Walker . It was actually Tom Nardelli.
Chisholm, a Democrat, said the investigation was not initiated by his office but by Walker’s then chief of staff Tom Nardelli. Nardelli told prosecutors that about $11,000 seemed to be missing from the annual Operation Freedom event at the Milwaukee County Zoo designed to honor military families.
Chisholm said Nardelli wanted the district attorney to look into the local Purple Heart group, which coordinated the event with the county and where Kavanaugh was treasurer.
Thanks for that link! Whaddaya know! It has reached the indictment-stage!
MADISON, Wis. — A former close aide to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and a Walker appointee were arrested on embezzlement charges Thursday as part of an ongoing criminal investigation centered on people who served during Walker’s tenure as Milwaukee County executive.
A third person, who worked six months for the state Department of Public Instruction until being fired Thursday, was charged with child enticement in a case the county prosecutor said was discovered while investigating the others.
The arrests of former Walker aide Tim Russell and Kevin Kavanaugh, Walker’s appointee to the Milwaukee County Veteran Service Commission, come more than a year and a half after the investigation into county personnel began. The third person arrested, Brian Pierick, is Russell’s longtime partner.
The charges against Russell and Kavanaugh involve embezzlement of money donated to help relatives of veterans killed or wounded in action. Some of the money was used to pay for a trip to Atlanta for Walker’s staff member to meet with one-time presidential candidate Herman Cain, the complaint said.
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Walker said in a conference call with reporters that he was “extremely disappointed” with the charges against Russell and Kavanaugh. He also reiterated past assertions that he has not been contacted by prosecutors about the ongoing investigation.
Walker emphasized it was his then-chief of staff who alerted investigators to concerns about Kavanaugh’s handling of money for the Purple Heart group, but said he had no idea Russell was allegedly doing anything illegal.
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Witnesses in John Doe investigations can be compelled to testify under oath about potential criminal matters but state law prohibits anyone involved in such secret proceedings from talking publicly about them.
Walker’s spokesman Cullen Werwie and Milwaukee County Republican Party official Roseann Dieck have been granted immunity in the investigation, which already has resulted in one conviction.
William Gardner, president and chief executive officer of Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Co., was sentenced to two years’ probation in July after being found guilty of exceeding state campaign donation limits and laundering campaign donations to Walker and other Wisconsin politicians.
Walker’s campaign returned the $43,800 in donations Gardner had given him.
So, Walker denies knowledge --therefore, he did not start the investigation or ask for it.
That story is originally from January, so those indictments are old news.
of Russell, no mention of Kavanaugh.
And neither did Chisholm.
Rusty? Happy pulled a slow one on you. Governor of the United States? Take your time.
Editorial by E.J. Dionne:
Walker is being challenged not because he pursued conservative policies but because Wisconsin has become the most glaring example of a new and genuinely alarming approach to politics on the right. It seeks to use incumbency to alter the rules and tilt the legal and electoral playing field decisively toward the interests of those in power.
The most obvious way of gaming the system is to keep your opponents from voting in the next election. Rigging the electorate is a surefire way of holding on to office. That is exactly what has happened in state after state — Wisconsin is one of them — where GOP legislatures passed new laws on voter identification and registration. They are plainly aimed at making it much more difficult for poorer, younger and minority voters to get or stay on the voter rolls and to cast ballots when Election Day comes.
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But Walker and his allies did more than this in Wisconsin. They also sought to undermine one of the Democratic Party’s main sources of organization. They sharply curtailed collective bargaining by most public employee unions and made it harder for these organizations to maintain themselves over time, notably by requiring an almost endless series of union elections.
The attack on unions was carried out in the name of saving state and local government money. But there is a big difference between, on the one hand, bargaining hard with the unions and demanding more reasonable pension agreements, and, on the other, trying to undercut the labor movement altogether. In the wake of the recession, mayors and governors of both parties have had to demand a lot from their unions. For Democrats, this often involved unions that helped elect them to office.
That is one of the reasons the party is well-represented in the recall by Barrett: He has been a tough negotiator in Milwaukee, to the consternation of some of its public employees. In the Democratic primary, unions spent heavily on behalf of Barrett’s main opponent, former Dane County executive Kathleen Falk. Although labor is now fully behind Barrett, Walker simply cannot cast his opponent as a captive of the movement. No wonder the Republican is closing his campaign with a demagogic ad on crime in Milwaukee. Walker knows he can’t win the last swing votes he needs on the basis of his record and his stand on collective bargaining.
Walker seems to enjoy a slight advantage in the polls, having vastly outspent his foes up to now. Barrett, however, should have enough money to level the competition in the final days. This recall should not have had to happen. But its root cause was not the orneriness of Walker’s opponents but a polarizing brand of conservative politics that most Americans, including many conservatives, have good reason to reject.
BREAKING: MAJOR REVELATIONS IN JOHN DOE PROBE - Scott Walker Inadvertently Admits He is Under Investigation:
MADISON – Following reports that Scott Walker’s criminal defense fund grew by $100,000 in May, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is today reporting major revelations in the John Doe criminal corruption probe, including Scott Walker’s mistaken admission that he is under investigation.
Scott Walker mistakenly admits that he is a target in the John Doe criminal corruption probe
Walker, in a rare moment of candor, stated to reporters that he would not use the criminal defense fund to pay for the legal defenses of his aides, who have been charged with crimes ranging from child enticement, to theft from veterans and the families of fallen soldiers, to misuse of taxpayer resources to illegally campaign for Scott Walker, and would instead use the funds for himself or his campaign.
Wisconsin law is very clear: an elected official can only establish a legal defense fund if they, or their agent, are under investigation for, charged with, or convicted of violations of Wisconsin’s campaign finance and election laws.
Nothing provides for an elected official creating a legal defense fund for the sole purpose of campaign compliance, assisting the prosecution or aiding an investigation, as Scott Walker claims he is doing.
Since he is not paying for the defense of an agent acting on his behalf, it is now clear that Scott Walker is under investigation.
Or he created a slush fund under the guise of a defense fund. Either way, it seems he may be hoisted on a petard or two.
You guys are really trying hard now, aren’t you?
