Holloway, County Board question Walker’s records disposal
County executive's office left empty
By Steve Schultze of the Journal Sentinel, Jan. 7, 2011
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The thorough housecleaning of the Milwaukee County executive's office when Gov. Scott Walker left late last month has left his successors wondering whether any records are missing.
Tom Nardelli, who was Walker's chief of staff at the county, said all records were saved or disposed of properly. But without knowing what records were destroyed, it's hard to know whether anything required by law to be kept was tossed, said Harold Mester, an aide to Acting County Executive Lee Holloway and the County Board...
The dozens of Walker's file cabinets were virtually emptied of their contents by the end of last month, and 16 bankers' boxes of records retrieved this week from storage by aides to Holloway appear well short of the total paper-load once held in the courthouse's third-floor executive suite.
A tour this week of the sparsely staffed offices revealed banks of empty file drawers, save a set of various bureaucratic forms, county budget books and one stack of papers on various issues left in the office of Fran McLaughlin, who was Walker's county spokeswoman.
The empty drawers, coupled with the absence of any message or memo telling the whereabouts of Walker's office documents - and at least two bins of shredded paper left by Walker staffers - were perplexing, Mester said.
"There was nothing left," Mester said...
Thanks; I was trying to find this story yesterday, as recent events regarding confiscation of computers used by Walker's staffers reminded me that I had read something along these lines. . . .
ReplyDeleteI seem to recall that lots of Tommy Thompson's gubernatorial records went missing or were destroyed as well.
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