Scott Walker

Scott Walker, Koch Money And That Iran Taint

October 14, 2011 by The Political E...

Let's go out on a limb and predict that when Scott Walker is allowed to raise unlimited funds in the recall election coming his way that the Koch brothers will again be major donors.

[Update: Dan Bice discloses Walker appearance at Koch-related conservative gathering.]

And let's also predict that Walker will take every dime of these funds without flinching at the disclosures about Koch interests' bribery in relationships with Iran.

In May 2008, a unit of Koch Industries Inc., one of the world’s largest privately held companies, sent Ludmila Egorova-Farines, its newly hired compliance officer and ethics manager, to investigate the management of a subsidiary in Arles in southern France. In less than a week, she discovered that the company had paid bribes to win contracts.

State Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald, US Senate Candidate, Has PolitiFact Ratings Mainly False

October 13, 2011 by The Political E...

We've come to expect ratings like this:

Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald, State Assembly leader and US Senate candidate is just another GOP leader and fibber - - one true, two mostly false, one Pants on Fire rating so far - - earning him about the same false-to-true PolitiFact rating owned by Governor, Scott Walker.

There is a Wisconsin Republican struggle with truthiness, as I noted a couple of months ago:

Another day, another "False" rating from PolitiFact for a top Republican leader from Wisconsin.

This time, it's Reince Priebus, the Wisconsinite running the national GOP apparatus these days.

In a statement, Priebus was found to have doubled the amount of money public-employee union spent in the recall elections - - turning about $15 million into $30 million.

That's a pretty big goof, both in total dollars and in as a percentage of the true facts.

Walker And The Recall Will Catch The Occupy Wall Street Wave

October 12, 2011 by The Political E...

(originally posted, 11:59 p.m., October 12, 2001) Funny how things work out.

It has been a given that Scott Walker would face a recall movement, but the timing was up for debate, with some progressives concerned that gathering recall signatures as soon as possible beginning in November would be difficult, given that the tight, 60-day petitioning window included Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's holidays - - while giving Walker an immediate fund-raising advantage

Truth was, no amount of strategizing and control from the top was going to delay the inevitable because angry voter/activists were going to run a movement at the grassroots and push others to run with the fast-tracked timetable.

So while Walker, as an incumbent elected official under recall, will indeed be able to raise Koch Brother-unlimited-level conservative donations, and the Right will galvanize to try and save him  - - look what has sprung up, out of the blue, unexpectedly - -  a phenomenon - - the Occupy Wall Street movement.

All In For The Walker Recall

October 11, 2011 by The Political E...

With a sneak attack on public employees, repetitive deception and catering to self-serving special corporate interests, Scott Walker has made the recall movement's announced plan for an early start to the process inevitable.

And let's be clear: he is not being recalled over one vote or controversial policy that can be corrected in the next election.

Look at the record: this has been coming for more than 20 years.

I've cataloged Walker's flaws and failures through 1,407 posts on this blog. Feel free to use the archive through the search box. 

Success for the recall is a matter of logistics, effort, commitment and money.

All in all, it's doable - - an opportunity to correct a pattern of deceit inflicted against the people. And it's a necessity if fairness and democracy is to be restored to the State of Wisconsin.

It's asking too much to wait until 2014.