Wisconsin: Republican Party fires staffer with 2010 child porn conviction
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/243688721.html
If Gov. Scott Walker and Wisconsin Republicans are paying someone to do their background checks, they should demand a refund.
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Alexander Combs, a former counselor at a Mukwonago co-ed camp, was hired by the state party to work in its Madison headquarters as a part-time fundraiser in March 2011, just one year after his felony conviction. He has been paid a little more than $41,000 by the party since landing the job, say campaign records.
Combs, 27, pleaded guilty in 2010 to downloading sexually explicit images of girls as young as 9 years old and engaging in online conversations with people who identified themselves as minor females. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail and three years' probation. He is a registered sex offender until 2028.
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Last month, Walker unwittingly offered a shout-out in his "state of the state" address to Christopher Barber, a registered sex offender who works as a welder at Ariens Co. in Brillion. A picture of the first-term Republican governor applauding Barber ran in newspapers around the state. In addition, Walker fired Taylor Palmisano, his campaign's deputy finance director, after No Quarter turned up tweets she had posted two years earlier that were demeaning to Hispanics. In May 2013, Nicole Tieman resigned without explanation as Walker's campaign spokeswoman. No Quarter later reported that she was serving a 20-day sentence in jail after her second drunken-driving conviction.
In Wisconsin, not all Republicans are sleazy criminals (see Dale Schultz), but all sleazy criminals are Republicans.