"We're Broke" Walker Trims Unqualified Newbie's Salary Back To Originally Absurd $63k

It's hardly a solution to an embarrassing outbreak of favoritism- - and keeps the story alive.

Walker probably figures he's done enough to make it go away as election result stories and commentary overwhelm media, but we probably haven't heard the last of the episode.

Even Sykes and Wagner were saying on WTMJ radio around noon Tuesday that the appointment was a political mistake.