Fired WisDOT Official Hardly A Public-Spirited Public Servant

The Walker people can pretend they didn't know immigrant-ranter and senior WisDOT official Steve Krieser was a $97,000-a-year-bad apple, but we had seen nearly two years ago that when managing staff providing state-issued free ID's to comply with Voter ID rules in place at the time - - Krieser chose to put a sabotaging spin on it:

You don't need anything more to prove that the Voter ID craze sweeping across the country at the behest of conservative legislators and Governors is pure Voter Suppression than a memo obtained by the Madison Capital Times showing Wisconsin state employees being instructed not to inform applicants that the new Wisconsin Voter ID is free 

An internal memo from a top Department of Transportation official instructs workers at Division of Motor Vehicles service centers not to tell members of the public that they can obtain voter identification cards free of charge -- unless they know to ask for it. 

The memo, recently obtained by The Capital Times, was written by Steve Krieser and sent to all state Department of Transportation and Department of Motor Vehicles employees on July 1, the same day employees were to begin issuing photo IDs in accordance with a controversial new Voter Photo ID law adopted earlier in the year. 

As laid out in the memo, failure to check a box when applying for photo ID with the Division of Motor Vehicles will result in the payment of $28. Interviews conducted about the memo suggest the state is more interested in continuing to charge the fee, which is required for a photo ID used for non-voting purposes, than it is in removing all barriers and providing easy access to a free, photo ID.