Scott Walker’s $100,000,000 Question – Walkergate (posted in Good Reads also)

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http://www.politiscoop.com/us-politics/wisconsin-politics/711-scott-walkers-100000000-question--walkergate-.html

Wisconsin Dirty PoliticsMadison – The John Doe investigation involving Scott Walker’s current and former staffers is expanding beyond allegations of campaigning with tax payers’ resources. In recent events, two more former Walker staff members have been charged with felonies related to their alleged illegal activities while employed by Milwaukee County. In addition to the news of the newest arrests arising from the investigation, former Milwaukee County Supervisor Roger Quindel informed WISN about unusual bidding process that took place under Walker’s watch.

[Qunindel told WISN]:

Quindel said he remembers an unusual bidding process during Walker's tenure as county executive. What appeared to be a done deal to extend a lease on some county offices turned into another round of bidding and gave bidders just five hours to present new bids.

"I thought it was a strange way of doing business. Even if you had rebid process, it should have been longer than this short, jammed-up period of time, and I was worried about a lawsuit even at the time," Quindel said.

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1. from the article....

from the article...

In 2002 Milwaukee County picked Bear Stearns to underwrite a $100 million bond refinancing deal even though their bid was $90,000 higher than another bidder and also violated the bidding guidelines. Bear Stearns’ executive, Nicholas Hurtgen, who has since pled guilty in a political corruption probe in Illinois, raised $25,000 in campaign contributions for Walker at two Illinois fundraisers shortly after they won the contract. Walker personally approved the selection of Bear Stearns. The sale of the bonds took place in 2003. Incidentally Karl Rove was to appear at this fundraiser but backed out at the last minute.

Catherine Hurtgen, Nicholas Hurtgen’s wife, gave Walker $2,500 six weeks after the selection of Bear Stearns as the underwriter for the Milwaukee County pension deal. Her husband was barred by SEC rules from making direct contributions to political candidates.

Stuart Levine gave Walker $3,000 and his wife another $2,000. Levine was indicted on 41 felony charges for extortion, soliciting a bribe, kickbacks and wire and mail fraud. In 2006 Levine pled guilty to charges of participating in a scheme with Hurtgen to pressure firms seeking state business to use preferred construction and bond firms.

John Glennon contributed $1,000 to Walker. Glennon pled guilty in 2007 to charges of receiving kickbacks in the Hurtgen-Levine scandal.

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2. hopefully someone's takin' a deal & will squeal like a pig. eom

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3. thought this is a good synopsis of Walker's legacy...

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the corruption runs much deeper than what is currently reported.
Perhaps this answers why Walker has hired criminal lawyers to defend him.
How easily the lies slip out of Walker's mouth when he claims that the John Doe investigation is not targeting him!!
This ties in with some of the names from WI's "good ol boys club" which has been at it for a loong time while we slept!!

In 2006, the blog political-capital reported:

AG J.B. Van Hollen is already taking a page out of Jim Klauser and Phil Prange's “Third Reich” plan. In hopes of reinstating themselves they have already begun the "Attorney General's Club" in which you can join for $500 and receive a neat little lapel pin. The lapel pin identifies you within the party as a contributor or "friend”. That strategy was implemented by Klauser, Prange and Nick Hurtgen during Tommy Thompson's years at the helm of the Ship of State.

It was all part of their replicating the Third Reich political machine that kept Adolph Hitler, or AH as they refer to him, in power. In their case, it was the governor's gig. Hurtgen even had a special license plate made that says M1. The M1 in the Nazi regime was the ministry that approved all business with the State: fitting for a bag man. (Bear, Stearns & Co investment guru Hurtgen could have been referring to the M1 money supply, of course.).

The word is that they have already set up a little pseudo defacto government (a la the Fourth Reich) and are shielding it under the Museum Foundation that Prange's mother runs. Its board of directors consists of Sue Ann Thompson, Klauser, Hurtgen's wife and his mother-in-law and timber baron Butch Johnson.

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4. Is baron butch johnson suppose to be ron johnson?