Scott Walker tramples Wisconsin values with United Sportsmen scandal --- Good article by Ruth Coniff
The United Sportsmen controversy was, in many ways, a familiar Walker administration scandal.
All the elements were there. A politically wired conservative group gets money thanks to its connections to state Republicans -- in this case, a $500,000 grant slipped into the state budget to promote hunting, fishing and trapping. Republicans connected with Walker throw over the normal competitive bidding process in order to steer money to their friends.
The political nature of the deal could not be clearer. As Jason Stein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports, United Sportsmen has done lobbying work for a mine and political work for state Republicans, but it hasn't ever run a class on hunting or fishing -- exactly the skills required by the grant.
After details emerged on the front pages of newspapers across the state about the group's president shooting a bear without a license, lying about it, and trying to pin it on someone else, not to mention misrepresenting his group's tax-exempt status, the Walker administration was finally embarrassed enough to pull the plug. But what the whole United Sportsmen scandal really shows is that the administration does not share Wisconsin values.
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how much of a kick back that wormy governor was going to get?
