Walkergate: Spinning Out of Control - FDL
"Even though I’ve had some extensive experience with Scott Walker, having to deal with his prevarications and obfuscations for the past ten years, there are times where I’ll hear or see something that will stop me in my tracks and just gape in amazement of how much he tries to warp things to fit into his own skewed sense of reality."
This report by Kay Nolan, reporting for WisPolitics.com, provided me with one of these rare occasions:
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Asked when Chisholm first made the no-comment request, Walker said, “I don’t have the date, I didn’t write it down on a piece of paper.” Asked if it happened last year, Walker answered, “Yes,” but quickly added that further comment would “violate what he asked me to do.”
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Walker’s appearance was the first since media reports on his financial disclosure statement showed he owed at least $55,000 in defense attorney fees as of the end of 2011. Walker announced in February that he had hired attorneys.
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On January 5, 2012, upon the heels of the arrest and charging of one of his top aides and closest friends, Tim Russell, and two others, Brian Pierick and Kevin Kavanaugh (who was another one of Walker’s political appointees), Walker said that he was “extremely disappointed” over the charges. But he didn’t stop there. He also denied having had any contact with the DA’s office, except when he sent his then Chief of Staff to see the DA to initiate the investigation:
http://news.firedoglake.com/2012/04/20/29450/
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