Prosecutors allege Gov. Scott Walker was at the center of an effort to illegally coordinate fundraising among conservative groups to help his campaign and those of Republican state senators fend off recall elections during 2011 and '12, according to documents unsealed Thursday.
In the documents, prosecutors lay out what they call an extensive "criminal scheme" to bypass state election laws by Walker, his campaign and two top deputies — R.J. Johnson and Deborah Jordahl. The governor and his close confidants helped raise money and control spending through 12 conservative groups during the recall elections, according to the prosecutors' filings.
The documents include an excerpt from an email in which Walker tells Karl Rove, former top adviser to President George W. Bush, that Johnson would lead the coordination campaign. Johnson is also chief adviser to Wisconsin Club for Growth, a conservative group active in the recall elections.
"Bottom-line: R.J. helps keep in place a team that is wildly successful in Wisconsin. We are running 9 recall elections and it will be like 9 congressional markets in every market in the state (and Twin Cities)," Walker wrote to Rove on May 4, 2011.
Look I don't want to be all "I told you so" here, but I totally KNEW this guy was a lowlife.
He looks like the kind of skeevy used car salesman who is always turning back the odometers, lying about the vehicles accident history, and trying to sell you unnecessary rust proofing just to screw you out of every nickel possible.
And the fact that he was working with Karl Rove to me is just about proof positive of his guilt.
These Teabagger Republicans really ARE just like the old Republicans, corrupt, larcenous, and willing to bend or break any law in order to get elected.
The photo of Walker really says it all. Would you buy a used car from someone that looks like that? He is definitely a lowlife and the fake Koch call to him a few years ago should have ended his political career. Walker has made such a mess of Wisconsin that it will take years to clean it up. The guy has cheated his way through life and there is nothing I'd like better than seeing him in an orange jumpsuit.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately,... the Koch's own much of Wisconsin. They own the Legislature, the Supreme Court and much of the lower court system. They own the Judge that ordered,... ordered,... the prosecution to destroy all evidence pertaining to this case,... and he's still a sitting Judge. They also own just enough of the vote and can computer "glitch" enough of the rest of it to keep winning. It's pretty sad,... and is ruining a once proud State.
ReplyDeleteYes, but it's citizens of this states own fault. They are the ones who decided not to recall this guy. Shame on them. They knew when they decided to keep him what kind of guy he was. It's not like this guy has changed his spots since being elected. They knew just what they were getting and kept him anyway. That's why we do not travel to Wisconsin anymore. I refuse to give any hard earned money to folks who support this guy.
DeleteI live in Wisconsin and didn't vote him into office. I worked hard during the recall to get voters to the polls. The state is divided 50-50 and Walker has pitted the two sides against each other to his advantage. So you can't blame all of the Wisconsin citizens. Half of us tried to get him out.
DeleteWho says the citizens did not want to recall him? They did - overwhelmingly so. But he was able to 'glitch' enough votes for himself. Remember the woman - don't remember her name nor her position, but she was involved in the shady dealings with the vote count. And he approved of it....
DeleteRemember sister sarry screeching on the steps of the WI capitol surrounded by the folks bussed in by Breitbart and the Kochs during Walker's union busting move? Those are her paymasters.
ReplyDeleteIsn't Walker also a Palin endorsed loser?
ReplyDeleteScott Walker is more easily defined by what he is not than by what he is.
ReplyDeleteHe is not:
Educated. (Well, he DID finish high school, by all accounts)
Ethical. Trustworthy. Truthful. Independent. Smart (outside of criminal enterprises)..
It's early, and I get weak thinking about this fraud.
Anybody know anything on the plus side with this person? Can anyone here define just what he is? Without epithets I mean? Just what does he have to offer in a life of public service? Besides his connections to..Koch..Rove..AFP..and their ilk?
He is a disaster for what was once a proud progressive state. Oh Wisconsin! What have you done?
Any chance this will lead to an investigation of Karl Rove?.... Which might then go further to dubya?
ReplyDeleteNo chance in hell, I'm sorry to say. Let's be satisfied for now with Walker and his motley crew.
DeleteYah but the TruCoat....
ReplyDeleteYou're a f**king liar!
(Ah it's Fargo don-cha-no)
Yah they overplow them roads up there... don-cha-no.
Why is it that every GOP rising star looks like someone with an IQ level short of a quota? Scott Walker, Paul Pee Wee Ryan, Santorum, Issa, Eric Cantor, and list goes on and on. Are they idiots because they are idiots, or do they become idiots because they are idiots?
ReplyDeleteBorn idiots, plain and simple. They just got lucky along the way.
Deleteremember this little conversation ; http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/breakinggov-scott-walker-punked-blogg
ReplyDeleteEven more gullible than cuckoo for cocoapuffs. I remember when this first came out, already knowing he was being taken, the amount of information he leaked was beyond astonishing.
DeleteThis jerk thought he could be PRESIDENT?
ReplyDeleteDid anyone ELSE think so, or was it his own personal wet dream?
Wet dream, for sure!
DeleteI think what irks me most about this POS is that his aided-and-abetted successful win in the recall election of 2012 allowed him and his cronies to continue their campaign to turn Wisconsin into that "wholly owned subsidiary" of Koch Industries for another 2 years, virtually wrecking the state for all but the RWNJs signed on to their agenda, and, of course, the cronies.
ReplyDeleteHopefully Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania will turn blue again, although if that happens those states' sociopolitical recovery will be much like the nation's as a whole -- Dem stalwarts trying to patch up the ruins left by the Republican crazies.
Everytime I hear Rove spout his bullshit, I'm surprised the crazies trust him so much. The Democrats wouldn't allow it, especially after the last election cycle. The baggers and GOP will lie and cheat every chance they get.
ReplyDeleteWisconsin was stupid enough to elect the man and then even STOOPIDER not to recall him when they had the chance.
ReplyDeleteA big fat TOLD YOU SO to them and they get what they deserve.
For now, I'll just point and laugh. Cheese heads. More like cheese for brains.