Wisconsin Prepares to Hand Half-Million in Taxpayer Funds to Koch-Tied GOP Lobby Shop

[Snarkoleptic]

WTF? These criminals know no bounds.

A small GOP lobby shop tied to the Tea Party and David Koch's Americans for Prosperity, and which was active in the state's recent recall elections, was awarded $500,000 in taxpayer dollars in what some are calling a backdoor, sweetheart deal cooked up by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) State Chair, outgoing Assembly Majority Leader Scott Suder.

The United Sportsmen of Wisconsin Foundation was the only applicant for a newly-created grant to promote hunting, fishing, and trapping in the state, despite the organization having no record in outdoors training. The grant was slipped into the budget bill by Suder and barely advertised, and other outdoors groups with more experience in the area were largely excluded. Suder has ties to United Sportsmen, and announced last week he would be leaving the Assembly for a higher-paying job in the Walker administration.

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"This last minute, half million dollar raid on the public treasury ought to be rescinded immediately," says Jay Heck of Common Cause Wisconsin. "To award this huge chunk of scarce, taxpayer money to a new group with no track record or experience in hunting, trapping and fishing and with obvious partisan, special-interest ties appears, at the very least to be a quid pro quo conflict of interest."

Oh so much more at link-
http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/08/12224/wisconsin-prepares-hand-half-million-taxpayer-funds-koch-tied-gop-lobby-shop

[Cha]

1. Thanks Snark! Hope it

freaking backfires on their dumbasses.

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2. GOPee Kocks

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3. From the article...

If the grant is approved, United Sportsmen will receive $450,000 in every two-year budget for perpetuity.

Many have noticed how odd it is for a Tea Party-connected group opposed to government spending to turn around and use their political connections to ask for a handout.

"How ironic that this phony front group, with such close ties to Americans for Prosperity -- which professes to be in favor of cutting government spending -- would burden Wisconsin taxpayers in this manner," says Common Cause Wisconsin's Heck. "They should have asked the Koch Brothers -- who finance AFP -- for the handout instead."

[Snarkoleptic]

4. Woo Hoo...now there's a petition up!

Please consider signing it here-
http://org.salsalabs.com/o/632/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14195

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5. BTW, this "quid pro quo conflict of interest." is called GRAFT!