Of course he wants to get this story off the front pages and away from his national campaign.
How would you like it if a bunch of lawyers showed up at the loan closing on your dream house waving handfuls of unpaid liens?
His party's embrace of government secrecy to help donors and shield insiders - - and you can't convince me Walker knew nothing about it - - is an image-killer that upends all that "midwestern nice hogwash."
And it also helps inquiring media and opposition research operatives draw a straight line from Gov. Walker and his team today back to his open-records annihilating secret email system and its subsequent criminal convictions.
And further back to his 2010 campaign's worry over damaging records after the fatal Milwaukee County garage concrete collapse on his watch.
And to the squashing of information during his 2010 run for Governor by his political people about a patient's starvation death at the county mental health facility on his watch.
And all the way back to his college student body presidential campaign's destruction of Marquette campus newspapers after its editorial board withdrew its Walker endorsement over campaign ethics violations.
How would you like it if a bunch of lawyers showed up at the loan closing on your dream house waving handfuls of unpaid liens?
His party's embrace of government secrecy to help donors and shield insiders - - and you can't convince me Walker knew nothing about it - - is an image-killer that upends all that "midwestern nice hogwash."
And it also helps inquiring media and opposition research operatives draw a straight line from Gov. Walker and his team today back to his open-records annihilating secret email system and its subsequent criminal convictions.
And further back to his 2010 campaign's worry over damaging records after the fatal Milwaukee County garage concrete collapse on his watch.
And to the squashing of information during his 2010 run for Governor by his political people about a patient's starvation death at the county mental health facility on his watch.
And all the way back to his college student body presidential campaign's destruction of Marquette campus newspapers after its editorial board withdrew its Walker endorsement over campaign ethics violations.
SEE GORDEN HINTZ TWEET FROM JULY 3, REGARDING WALKER KNEW ABOUT THE OPEN RECORDS MOTION. HE EDITED THE LIST AND LEFT THE OPEN RECORDS MOTION. GORDEN HINTZ IS ON THE JFC A DEM.
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SEE THIS. WALKER KNEW ABOUT IT.
We all know that everything begins and ends with Walker. Luther Olson acknowledged that for this to get to the JFC both Vos and Fitzgerald supported it and directed Darling and Nygren to put it in the budget. Olson said that the JFC only deals with what Vos and Fitzgerald tell them to. We also know that Walker has been in daily communication with Vos and Fitzgerald relative to the budget and that Walker wants the budget done before he announces his presidential run on the 13th. That leaves Walker as the one who orchestrated the change in public records policy so as to cut off any negative digging and investigating that could de-rail his campaign. He put himself in a win/win situation......if there was no blowback it was hidden and signed in the budget and his campaign butt was covered. Now because of the public up-roar he will become the "champion of the people" by returning access to public records from those over zealous legislators who took matters into their own hands. One has to think that there is someone out there who is threatening to blow the lid off Walker's corruptions for Walker to take this risky cutting off public record access action this close to his presidential run. To go so far as to include staff and former employees from talking certainly suggests that something is occurring that is problematic for Walker's presidential hopes.
ReplyDeleteI have wondered if there is any relationship among Cindy Archer's very recent lawsuit against the FBI, Kelly Rindf.'s request for legal reconsideration and this.
DeleteWALKER KNEW ABOUT THE OPEN RECORDS MOTION. SEE THIS TWEET FROM DEMOCRAT GORDEN HINTZ ON TWITTER. GORDEN IS ON THE JFC.
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Nailed it!
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I've said many times before that Walker swoops into town, barks orders, and then leaves. No one on the Republican side does anything that Walker doesn't tell them to do. It's his authoritarian method of ruling. I am not at all surprised that it has come to light that Walker instigated this proposal in motion 999. He might not have written it, but he ordered it to be written. If he says otherwise, he is a bald face liar.
ReplyDeleteTurn motion 999 upside down, and we 666 -just saying.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how much these Repub. legislators and our governor marching in 4th of July parades today might have been a factor in them changing their minds?
ReplyDeleteI think something needs to be said about AG Brad Schmiel. He spoke out forcefully and early on about this dangerous, authoritarian budget insertion. Granted a GOPer, but someone who recognized open democratic government trumps political allegiance. I wonder what kind of vicious retaliation is waiting for him?
ReplyDeleteInteresting comment about Schimmel. If it was supposed to be a distraction and his part in the drama was to object, he will be rewarded. If his actions took Walker etc. by surprise he will be punished. It stands to reason that we will know if this was supposed to distract people and the press by how Schimmel is treated in the coming months.
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