Scott Walker’s Corruption Problem

[Scuba]

http://www.progressive.org/news/2014/10/187897/scott-walker%E2%80%99s-corruption-problem

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who is locked in a dead-heat for reelection on November 4, has been dogged throughout his tenure by secret criminal investigations that so far have led to 15 felony indictments of six of his closest aides and associates.

This week, new documents released on a judge’s orders show that Walker, while he was Milwaukee County executive, helped his longtime campaign treasurer get inside information for a bid to lease office space to the county.

In the emails, John Hiller, a real-estate broker and Walker’s treasurer, seeks and receives inside information on a bidding process that he hoped would give him access to public money. “Would you be open to pulling aging out of the RFP [Request for Proposals],” Hiller writes to Walker.

“Yes,” Walker replies.

[HereSince1628]

1. What was "aging" ?

I can't tell. Without knowing it's context, I don't know what to think of that.

[Scuba]

2. It refers to the Milwaukee County Aging Resource Center.

[HereSince1628]

3. Thanks

[LWolf]

4. Yet people are still voting for him.

[Enthusiast]

5. It doesn't make sense.

Unless the media has conspired to keep this from The People®.

[daleanime]

6. "Because their all dirty....."

People don't realize that there's a difference between dirty and covered in muck.

[Octafish]

7. Scott Walker is a crook.

Amazing what a GOP controlled press can do, foisting such scum up as leadership material. All he is capable of doing is making the rich richer, which is GOP Job 1.

[belzabubba333]

9. people believe what they want to believe you cant blame the media - you blame the people

stupid enough to believe it. you and i know better even with the gop propaganda machine so it's not the media,sure the media lies but it's lying to everyone

[Octafish]

11. Ask around: How many have heard of the Powell Memorandum?

The great DUer underpants brought this to our attention, way back when DU1 was new:

The Powell Memo (also known as the Powell Manifesto)

The Powell Memo was first published August 23, 1971

Introduction

In 1971, Lewis Powell, then a corporate lawyer and member of the boards of 11 corporations, wrote a memo to his friend Eugene Sydnor, Jr., the Director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The memorandum was dated August 23, 1971, two months prior to Powell’s nomination by President Nixon to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Powell Memo did not become available to the public until long after his confirmation to the Court. It was leaked to Jack Anderson, a liberal syndicated columnist, who stirred interest in the document when he cited it as reason to doubt Powell’s legal objectivity. [font color="red"]Anderson cautioned that Powell “might use his position on the Supreme Court to put his ideas into practice…in behalf of business interests.”[/font color]

Though Powell’s memo was not the sole influence, the Chamber and corporate activists took his advice to heart and began building a powerful array of institutions designed to shift public attitudes and beliefs over the course of years and decades. The memo influenced or inspired the creation of the Heritage Foundation, the Manhattan Institute, the Cato Institute, Citizens for a Sound Economy, Accuracy in Academe, and other powerful organizations. Their long-term focus began paying off handsomely in the 1980s, in coordination with the Reagan Administration’s “hands-off business” philosophy.

Most notable about these institutions was their focus on education, shifting values, and movement-building — a focus we share, though often with sharply contrasting goals.* (See our endnote for more on this.)

So did Powell’s political views influence his judicial decisions? The evidence is mixed. [font color="red"]Powell did embrace expansion of corporate privilege and wrote the majority opinion in First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, a 1978 decision that effectively invented a First Amendment “right” for corporations to influence ballot questions.[/font color] On social issues, he was a moderate, whose votes often surprised his backers.

CONTINUED...

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/

It's why so many fish don't notice the water's polluted: It's all they know.

[Dustlawyer]

8. The Plutocrats control many more, "Scott Walkers" and their underlings. He is just one of

the dumbest and most brazen, though you can add Chris Christie and Rick Scott to the list as well.

When will AMERICANS decided enough is enough! They are looting our treasury and going for more! They buy the politicians to make it happen for them. Their media keep us in the dark, distracted, and displace the righteous anger we should have toward them onto the poor, minorities, disabled, and the elderly!

While most people agree our system is corrupt, few are willing to do more than bitch about it. We have to get the $$$ out of our political system to take away the Plutocrats control. It will be much easier after that to fix things and begin addressing our serious issues such as climate change.

PUBLICLY FUNDED ELECTIONS OR BUST!

[belzabubba333]

10. remember what norquist said :we just need someone smart enough to hold a pen and

sign what ever we put in front of him.