Walker wanted funds funneled to Wisconsin Club for Growth

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Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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Among the funds that flowed into the Wisconsin Club for Growth was $700,000 from a company trying to build a massive open-pit iron mine in northern Wisconsin. Soon after the 2012 recall and general elections, Walker and Republicans eased environmental regulations, helping the firm.

"The Governor is encouraging all to invest in the Wisconsin Club for Growth," said an April 28, 2011, email from Kate Doner, a Walker campaign consultant, to R.J. Johnson, an adviser to Walker's campaign and the advocacy group. "Wisconsin Club for Growth can accept corporate and personal donations without limitations and no donors disclosure."

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The hundreds of pages of documents that became available Friday afternoon also showed Walker's team sought to solicit funds for the Wisconsin Club for Growth from an array of nationally known donors to fend off his 2012 recall. Real esate developer Donald Trump, industrialist billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, and casino mogul Sheldon Adelson were all targets.




Read more: http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/walker-wanted-funds-sent-to-wisconsin-club-for-growth-b99336519z1-272364371.html

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Mining company Gogebic Taconite LLC's $700,000 contribution to the Wisconsin Club for Growth was not publicly known until Friday.



KABOOM!

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1. 03 /30/12 email - Walker met with Trump. WiCFG bank records reflect a $15,000 from Trump 04/03/12

"A 03 /30/12 email indicates Walker was meeting with Trump. WiCFG bank records reflect a $15,000 from Trump on 04/03/2012,"


http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/court-releases-more-documents-in-john-doe-probe/article_e17d6f2a-f423-5a1f-9b2e-464c4f18b174.html?comment_form=true

[SoapBox]

2. To those in Wisconsin that kept this scum...

Aren't you feeling just the slight bit SUCKERED?

And one of the big reasons you kept him was because you didn't like "outsiders" coming in to the state to try and oust him?

How fuck'n stupid.

[Half-Century Man]

3. In Latin; Quid Pro Quo

Perhaps Scotty has booked a suite at Club Fed?

[tea and oranges]

5. please let this be so

[glinda]

4. why do I smell a connection to the big pit mine in MN.

that will flush tons of crap into the Boundary Waters and National Forest....

[tea and oranges]

6. Do tell more; that sounds interesting...

[glinda]

12. Conservatives running on this project and

Dems arte being stupid arses also cautiously backing it. I guarantee you it will destroy that area forever. http://www.miningtruth.org/sulfide-mining-minnesota/polymet-mine-proposal/#.U_qGcEvp6Mk

[tea and oranges]

13. Thank you

What a fucking rogue's gallery of environmental criminals! Plus, Marc Rich? Famously pardoned by Dem potus Clinton.

200 years? They are out of their minds. We haven't even been able to hang on to the Voting Rights Act for 70 years or Glass-Steagall!

You're correct, this is environmental destruction for a quick buck. Maybe you should post the article!

[alp227]

7. NEW YORK TIMES also picked up this story!

Emails Show Bigger Fund-Raising Role for Wisconsin Leader

Wisconsinites, GET RID OF THIS UNION-BUSTING RAT BASTARD IN NOVEMBER! PLEASE!

[freshwest]

8. Will fundies who voted for Walker reject corruption? RWNJs condemn the EPA for opposing this stuff.

[nlkennedy]

9. Wisconsinite here..

A lot of my Looney tune conservative friends simply stopped talking about Walker and WI politics altogether..

"He balanced the budget" doesn't cut it anymore..

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10. Who is the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation Working For?

MADISON, WI -- A report released today by One Wisconsin Now analyzing state funds distributed by the quasi-private Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC), created by Gov. Scott Walker, raises serious questions about who is really benefitting. The report found that owners or employees of 30 percent of businesses receiving WEDC assistance contributed to Gov. Walker's campaign or the Republican Governors Association (RGA). Meanwhile these same businesses received almost 60 percent of WEDC economic development funds - $570 million in total.

One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross commented, "Cronyism, corruption and incompetence have been hallmarks of Gov. Walker and his administration. Nowhere is that more evident than with his signature economic development initiative, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation."

http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/press/who-is-the-wisconsin-economic-development-corporation-working-for.html

[CatholicEdHead]

11. Ironically MN Republicans want MN to be like WI

After the August Primary, the winners, Jeff Johnson, running for MN Governor went on MPR and gushed about Walker and how MN should be more like WI and follow Walker-like policies. Given that MN and the Twin Cities are blowing WI away in economic development and jobs (one of the best in the nation) I was shocked to hear him say it, he wanted a Act 10 union busting bill and everything else the WI Republicans have brought about the last 4 years.

Edit: found the story:
http://blogs.mprnews.org/capitol-view/2014/07/wisconsin-an-issue-in-minnesota-governors-race/

[sakabatou]

14. He's so friggin corrupt