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Scuba

(53,475 posts)
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 07:11 AM Sep 2012

Wisconsin: Walker steps in doo doo, Feds suspend block grant program

Coverage thanks to Blue Cheddar.


Even worse than the press let on: Feds’ letter to DOA suspends block grant program, says WEDC not state agency


“Badger Democracy has obtained a letter from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development Milwaukee Office (HUD) dated May 17, 2012 to Department of Administration (DOA) Secretary Mike Huebsch. HUD was not just critical of DOA/State oversight of the new Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC); the federal agency suspended the critical Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program.

The agency went so far as to state that WEDC is not an “…instrumentality of the state.” “

Also from the HUD letter: “The CDBG program is defined incorrectly under the “Agreement.” Local Governmental Units are not required to pay back grant funds to the state. They are grants.”

I am enraged by the notion that the State of Wisconsin, with WEDC illegally working as its agent, has been misinforming communities — telling them that federal grant monies aren’t really theirs to keep.



And more coverage from Cognitive Dissidence.

"In Corporate Fitzwalkerstan"


In a strongly worded Aug. 12 letter to Department of Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch, federal officials said two state agencies failed to follow federal law and their own policies in issuing economic development grants.

Among the findings:

The state gave out aid worth $20,000 per job created to Kapco, a company with a plant in Polk County — twice as much as its own policies allow./LI.

Officials failed to check the financial soundness of two companies receiving $1.4 million in federal grants.

Eleven out of 20 loans using Community Development Block Grant funds awarded since Jan. 1, 2011, are "forgivable," despite the fact that the state's own policy calls for allowing businesses to get no-payback loans only in "extraordinary circumstances."

Questions remain about an $8.6 million chunk of CDBG funds withdrawn under unusual circumstances late last year.




Everything Walker does is "questionable", at best, more likely criminal. I'm just sick that this pathetic excuse for a human being is still my State's Governor.

I can't wait for the indictments to start rolling in on Walker and his associates.


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Wisconsin: Walker steps in doo doo, Feds suspend block grant program (Original Post) Scuba Sep 2012 OP
i`m betting that a lot of those communty leaders and business owners.... madrchsod Sep 2012 #1
Walker is a vandal. HereSince1628 Sep 2012 #2
K&R nt avebury Sep 2012 #3
the 8.6 mill??? Follow the Re/Teapukes...there You shall find it!! hue Sep 2012 #4
Again millions of tax payers dollars wasted.... I too feel ill that this continues on while many midnight Sep 2012 #5

madrchsod

(58,162 posts)
1. i`m betting that a lot of those communty leaders and business owners....
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 07:48 AM
Sep 2012

voted for walker during the election and recall.

when is this guy going to be indicted and how could any sane republican still think he`s not corrupt to the core?

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
2. Walker is a vandal.
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 08:22 AM
Sep 2012

No asset that benefits society is free from his attempts to facilitate plundering it.







midnight

(26,624 posts)
5. Again millions of tax payers dollars wasted.... I too feel ill that this continues on while many
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 11:12 PM
Sep 2012

unemployed people, with hungry children live without.... I hope Barrett and the Dems... ask Walker to return money for underwater mortgages so the people of Wisconsin can receive what was theirs in the first place....

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