Oooops. At CPAC Panel, Rience Preibus admits illegal campaign coordination in Wisconsin
The "John Doe 1" investigation in Wisconsin looked into illegal campaigning on government time by Scott Walker's staff while he was Milwaukee County Executive. As a result of the investigation, six of Walker's closest staff members were convicted of crimes.
The "John Doe 2" investigation is looking into illegal campaign coordination between Walker and third party political groups in the runup to the 2012 recall election. At CPAC RNC Chairman Rience Preibus casually admitted that such coordination occurred.
http://uppitywis.org/blogarticle/yes-we-have-no-bad-actors-conservative-speakers-let-slip-coordin
YES, WE HAVE NO BAD ACTORS: Conservative speakers let slip coordination between Walker campaign & third-party issue groups
"How did we do it in Wisconsin?” (Priebus) asked Saturday morning. “The simplest way I can tell you is we had total and complete unity between the state party, quite frankly, Americans for Prosperity, the Tea Party groups, the Grandsons of Liberty. The (Glenn Beck-instigated) 9/12ers were involved. It was a total and complete agreement that nobody cared who got the credit, that everyone was going to run down the tracks together.”
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2. More important, Americans For Prosperity is among groups believed to be the subject of the current John Doe investigation into whether such clearly political organizations illegally coordinated with the Walker campaign. Based on the Salon report, it sure sounds like Walker and the rest of that "intrepid group" of activists were pretty friendly -- same-room, same-meeting friendly! According to Priebus, all conservative interests
were in "total and complete agreement." He would know, since he took a hands-on role in Wisconsin election campaigning. Moreover, according to Priebus all the groups ran
"down the tracks together." That's for sure; they railroaded opponents at high speed, using tremendous amounts of expensive advertising.
Remember, "independent" third-party "educational" groups are not supposed to go near the campaigns of candidates for public office or strategize with them, especially candidates they indirectly support through their "non-campaign" advertising. Yeah, if I were a John Doe investigator, I'd be grabbing a complete set of the CPAC forum transcripts.
They also spilled the beans that the plan to bust the unions was hatched four years before Walker "dropped the bomb". See link for more.
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