Former Wisconsin AG to Recommend Walker be Investigated for Ethics Violations to Accountability Board
Looks like Scott Walker's prank phone call may end up getting him in some trouble with their Government Accountability Board and his remarks about bringing in agent provocateurs to cause trouble at the rallies isn't sitting too well with the voters. Ed Schultz discussed Governor Walker's conversation with the fake Koch brother with The Nation's John Nichols who filled Ed in on some of the latest developments in Wisconsin.
NICHOLS: The governor’s not walking a fine line Ed. He tripped off the cliff. The fact of the matter is that Wisconsin has the toughest ethics laws in the nation. We pride ourselves on that. That goes back more than a hundred years to the progressive era with Bob La Follette. Those ethics laws require that an elected official keep faith with the people of Wisconsin. Those statements raise deep concerns here in Madison and around the state.
The former Attorney General of Wisconsin, Peg Lautenschlager told me tonight that she is in the reviewing this, of the transcript of this conversation, for several hours found what she determined to be multiple ethics, election law and labor law violations. And she will tomorrow morning suggest that the state Government Accountability Board begin to review those ethics violations.
Ed Schultz asked Nichols if the Republicans running the state would allow the investigation to go forward.
NICHOLS: The Government Accountability Board is an independent, non-partisan board, staffed by former judges who are elected in a non-partisan manner without any Republican or Democratic control.
Nichols wasn’t sure where the investigation would end up going and pointed out to Schultz that the residents of Wisconsin aren’t too happy with some of the other statements he made during the call as well.
NICHOLS: But second, there’s a moral component to this. People around Wisconsin are talking tonight about the fact that they brought their children to peaceful, very attractive and popular rallies in Madison and other communities and now they find out that their governor says that he considered sending agent provocateurs into those rallies to screw things up and cause trouble, perhaps to begin violence and he only decided not to do it, not because he’s worried for the people of his state, but because he was worried that it might not play well politically. That’s a very troubling thing to have a governor of an American state talking about.
It looks like the tactics being used by these Koch brother teabaggers are finally coming back to bit them.
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/breaki... Time will tell if Walker get's nailed to the post
"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master." - Hunter S. Thompson
I just hope he ends up getting recalled next year as well. It would be nice to see this result in a Governor Feingold.
only 255 shopping days left (as I figure it) until petition time.
http://www.easysurf.cc/ndate2.htm
"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master." - Hunter S. Thompson
they can't start the petition till 60 days prior to Jan 3 2012 but WI citizens have drafted it!
Ethic charges mean a trial for which the taxpayer will have to pay to defend him...Burden for the taxpayer again! Who wants to pay to defend a crook that is attempting to take away your rights!
Just keep the bright lights on his foolish behavior..He has stepped in it--with his corporate owners the kock bros!
Boycott kock bros products and services and let your merchant know why...everyone buys toilet paper---etc right! List of their products here and in the EU and ME and Africa!
http://www.worldofkoch.com/
What terms of Service did I violate? I was replying to the comment about feingold for Governor
I had a few friends who heard the tape or read the transcript and were all "Meh."
Then I pointed this one piece out--just like Mr. Nichols said. "Oh." A few moments. "Oh, that's pretty messed up."
The after-taste is what really matters here.
The hell with a recall. NOW we find out if this really is a country of laws and rule of the people, by the people, for the people.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
sure you know already.
is tremendous. Clearly this bill is intended to expand the governors powers immensely and bypass the legislative process and oversight commisions.
http://www.theawl.com/2011/02/burning-down-wi...
I hope they roast him on a spit.
Maybe Walker is really a dem/progressive plant put in place to make the GOPhers look ridiculous, morally corrupt and ethically perverse.
Am I ahead of Beck and Rush this time?
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
If he gets thrown out of office and Republicans lose...yeah you're ahead. If Walker succeeds..no way, he's Beck and Rush's hero. It all depends on the outcome.
About time. Walker has proven to be as crooked as the next Reslug.
1% of the population of the US are doing quite well, thank you very much.
In terms of the percentage of the national wealth, they have roughly 34%.
The other 19% of the top twenty percent have 51% of the wealth.
Put together the top twenty percent has 85% percent of the wealth. That is bad enough but:
The 400 billionaires (.000001% of the population) have the same wealth as the bottom 50% of the population.
It is the Oligarchs who are doing exceptionally well.
The Kochs are in that crew. They mean to do even better.
That is how it works in the third world.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
that the hoi polloi is saying "hell no!" to the myopic, greedy politicians who think the common people deserve to feel the pain of this looming economic disaster all by ourselves! When is (was?) Mr. Walker going to cut his own salary? When are the state and federal politicians going to pare down their bloated salaries and all their expensive benefits?!
Isn't it ironic how MANY of us marched on Washington to say NO to the illegal invasion of Iraq; to say NO to runaway deficit spending; to say NO to the hedonistic, sociopathic Corporate Megalomaniacs who've usurped our government, our media and our economy--yet here we are as a nation, better than $14 trillion in debt!
The inevitable turmoil of the global economic catastrophe we are just beginning to witness promises to get far, far worse, especially since these corporatists AND our politicians think they can keep doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.
May we live in interesting times, indeed!
Impeach, convict, remove from office, then indict convict and imprison this dirty fascist sonofabitch.
could charge the Kochs with, like bribing a government official?
I'm sure at some point (if he hasn't already) Walker will say he knew it wasn't the Koch's calling so he played along to "prank" whoever was trying to prank him. That will be sufficient to appease the GOPers in the state.
http://www.thealders.net/blogs
Just call me Dazed & Confused
The doOd who pranked Walker should get the next Medal of Freedom™ from President Obama, especially if it proves to be the scab bastid governors undoing.
and this is what they get.
In my voting district, Walker got 3.9% of the vote. In Milwaukee County, where we know what a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worm he really is, he only got 25%. It was the outstate people who didn;t know him that voted him in.
it was the touch-screen electronic devices and their manipulators?
Beck and Hannity ALL are UNION MEMBERS. So's everyone on FOX NEWS! That's the way show business works.
The number of fools buying into their anti union rants is astounding.
Wall St ruins America and the peasants pay for it. Wall St. should be in prison but nothing. Sounds like WI Dems are cutting a deal. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/24/wisc...
Looks like that's it. Wormer dropped the big one.
http://www.viddler.com/explore/roncoleman/vid...
Because your post sounds like...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQtU_fYe6gE&fe...
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Tomorrow's talking point memo from the Republican Governor's will have the time tested meme, "the left wing media is picking on me."
Never a glance at the mirror to see the actual cause of his problems.
that when you vote for a Republican you vote against unions? Hasn't it been that way for at least 30 years? And let's be honest. Regardless of the party behind the effort, the financial elite has fought against unions from the time they were formed. Now they have a direct channel into state and federal politics thanks to Citizens United. The Democratic Party is also being compromised by the power and influence of big money.
This should be a fight against oligarchy, not a fight pitting Repubs and Dems against each other. That's exactly what the oligarchs want.
I was finally able to listen to the phone call this morning- every site I went to last nite was overwhelmed. I woke up at 5am just so I could catch a site before major traffic began again today.
The collusion between Walker and Kasich, to me, should be enough to impeach them both and the other governors he named that are in on this scam
That they have no intention of following the law, the will of the people or even remotely doing anything other breaking the unions and ensuring transfer of power to their wealthy contributors, otherwise known as "The Private Sector" is appalling. If it's not enough to get them impeached, it should be.
The right to collectively bargain is granted to state and local employees as a matter of state employment law. And trying to change those laws, and talking to your counterparts from other states trying to do the same is collusion, an impeachable offense and a scam.
May the cloud fairies have mercy on the progressive movement.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Out of curiosity, what "pull" does a *former* AG have???
The most important thing is to keep this as "front page" news. Hot topic. It should be repeated through speakers at the capitol in Wisconsin. I just looked at my Google front page news and it was not even up there. WTF?
The Governor wants to see if Senate Democrats have committed felonies by gaining support for staying out of state.
The ex Attorney General wants to find multiuple violations of law in a conversation between a prankster and the dufus who is Governor.
Progressive bloggers demand impeachment. Conservative tweeters demand shooting.
I am just wondering how, after those years I spent as a state employee in a right to work state with no collective bargaining, I am not in chains.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Why don't they start a recall?
He is obviously a tool for the Koch brothers and the tea party.
he has manipulated the budget figures and lied and is in cahoots with his fellow republican governors.
maybe a national investigation into the other republican governors should also be considered.
Diane
I wish they would quit using the term "prank" when discussing this. Prank just takes away the seriousness of this matter. O'Keefe wasn't a "prank" on Fox News. O'Keefe was an highly creative investigative journalist even though his tapes were extremely edited. Shirley Sherrod wasn't a prank. It was again highly creative investigative journalism. Until you remove the word prank to describe this it will never be taken seriously. You have MURDOCH this:
WISCONSIN GOVERNOR CONSIDERING BRINGING IN TROUBLEMAKERS TO DESTROY PROTESTORS
WISCONSIN GOVERNOR THANKS KOCH BROTHER FOR MILLIONS
WISCONSIN GOVERNOR THREATENS DEMOCRATIC SENATORS WITH BASEBALL BAT...
See, it's not that hard. You must learn NEWSPEAK. There are plenty of good books on the subject.
you want your side to be Murdoch and Fox like in their approach?
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
It works... This logical discussion does nothing to progress the cause. People love listening to Rush, Beck, and Hannity get so worked up they stammer and sigh in frustration. They love that "unbelievable" at the end of every statement. I despise Frank Luntz's ways...but they work.
Another thing... we've got to quit making Barney Frank and non-white people as our spokespeople. I have high regard for congressman Frank, but I'm sorry...when the teabaggers see him on TV they can not hear a thing he says. All they see is "gay".
Look at all the pretty girls on Fox. O'Reilly even puts two pretty girls against the "balanced" part of his discussions. Fox is brilliant... Yes, I want that if that's what it takes to wake people up. It definitely works in brainwashing them.
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"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
I read, in an article, a couple days ago that some moderate Republicans are looking into drafting a recall bill in Wisconsin. So, in spite of Walker's bragging that ALL Republicans are on his side is not the truth. I just wish this prankster had been able to do the same to ALL the newly elected teabagger governors. Remember, Kasich was front and center of the government shut down during the Clinton years, formed the so-called Freshmen Coalition. Corruption is so deeply ingrained in those people they think corruption is normal.
to see Peg Lautenschlager back before them again!
"In February 2004, Lautenschlager made national headlines after pleading guilty to drunk driving in Dodge County, about an hour away from Madison. A Dodge County sheriff's deputy reported to the scene to find her state-owned vehicle in the ditch, and her unharmed inside. ....A state Ethics Board investigated Lautenschlager's case and ruled that some use of the state car for personal use exceeded state-allowed limits. Lautenschlager reimbursed some of the costs and paid a fine of $784. Her driver's license was also revoked for a year."
I am glad Ed indicated Nichols is associated with the Nation, since that publication's writers are often featured on MSNBC and the nation also advertises on MSNBC.
I am sorry Nichols did not mention that the reason Lautenschlager reviewed the tape and transcripts of the Governor's phone call is that she was asked to do so by his local Wisconsin publication. He did so when he wrote about it in Wisconsin.
http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-an...
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
What amazes me is how stupid politicians are. This guy is going out of his way to piss off a lot of people and he doesn't have enough brains to be more careful than make dumb ass comments like he did. Pious arrogance I guess can be a blessing to others. What a dolt.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
Heard Koch on line one and his brain went into full blown authoritarian follower mode.
He wasn't thinking because his train of though was to busy worshiping.
Walker's a tool.
Beer-i.e., God's Sweet Nectar- is a magic drink that makes you smarter, stronger, and more sexy.
-S. Colbert
'nuff said.
Walker's suggestion that he may threaten to layoff 1500 state workers in order to put political pressure on the expatriate Dems constitutes an ethics violation at the least. This is on par with Rob Blagodevich's phone comments about his imagined political IOU's.
So, the Wanker dude got into the Statehouse, and now thinks he's Godzilla, huh?
I'd LOVE to see this scumbag forced to resign in disgrace, but that hasn't happened since Nixon's day, and the asshole will most likely manage to slither out of his self-induced pickle, with a little help from the REAL Kochs.
When have you seen an ethical republican?
In the last 30 years the only thing in the GOP are liars and crooks.
From top to bottom the entire GOP is nothing but a criminal organization.
A dishonest statement?
Every statement made by a republican is dishonest.
Not being reactionary by nature, I must indulge myself in a bit of nostalgia, however, by fantasizing how satisfying it would be to see this tool's head in a basket all nice and cozy with those of the Koch Bros.! Liberte, Egalite, et Fraternite! FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!!!
Was Peg SOBER when she made that observation?
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