Report: Rules skirted to give police chief raise

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Report: Rules skirted to give police chief raise
Published: August 18, 2013 Updated 43 minutes ago

The Associated Press


MILWAUKEE — A report says Gov. Scott Walker's administration gave the Capitol Police chief and his top deputy double-digit pay raises after moving them on paper to fake jobs for two weeks and then back to their real posts.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/14rDOP5 ) that Chief Dave Erwin, who has overseen a crackdown on anti-Walker protesters, got a salary hike of nearly 12 percent to over $111,000 a year.

The newspaper reports that raise was possible only because Walker officials transferred Erwin to a ghost position in another department. Then he was shuffled back to his real job as head of the Capitol Police force. They took similar steps to skirt civil service salary limits for Deputy Police Chief Dan Blackdeer.

Walker's staff says he had no hand in authorizing the raises.



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[cosmicone]

1. For all their "law abiding" role-playing

Republicans are the first to skirt laws and push envelopes.

[Berlum]

2. Republican occultism & deceit. As usual.

Republican "family values" are right out of the cesspool.

[marble falls]

3. What, your brother didn't cheat at "Monopoly" or write test answers on his cuff?

[Berlum]

4. Nope. He was and is a Democrat

and he values honesty and integrity - real American values we can only hope the Republicans will experiment with some day.

[marble falls]

5. Good for him!

[surrealAmerican]

6. That can't be legal.

Can it?

[hue]

7. That's the way Wanker & his minions roll!! From college--he was sanctioned for cheating to now.n/t

[mysuzuki2]

8. Wisconsin is open for business.

Funny business!