Scott Walker loyalist Cindy Archer starts high-paying job Monday

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http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/walker-loyalist-cindy-archer-starts-high-paying-job-monday-b9972329z1-219196281.html

She will work in state Public Defender's Office

For the most part, Gov. Scott Walker's top aides in Milwaukee County didn't follow him to the Capitol.

Some Walker staffers chose to retire, others stayed put with the county, and two landed behind bars.

But there is an exception.

Cindy Archer, a key cabinet member on Walker's county staff, is set to start a new six-figure job with the state on Monday.

Archer — who has bounced around the Walker administration for the past 21/2 years — beat out more than two dozen other candidates to be named an administrative services director at the state Public Defender's Office. She will be paid $101,510 a year.

"Our previous director retired after a long career with the agency," said State Public Defender Kelli Thompson in an email. "Cindy was hired into this position using an open civil service examination."

It's the sort of position that suits Archer, a loyal soldier who prefers to stay in the background.

That, of course, became impossible back in 2011 when a dozen law enforcement officers, including FBI agents, swarmed her Madison home in a surprise search as part of a secret John Doe investigation of Walker's aides. Archer was never charged, and Milwaukee County prosecutors have not explained the reason for the raid.

More recently, Archer appears repeatedly in a raft of newly released emails seized by John Doe investigators. Those emails show a coterie of Walker's 2010 campaign and county aides jointly managing the political and media fallout after a concrete panel fell from the O'Donnell parking structure, killing a 15-year-old boy in June 2010.


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"administrative services director at the state Public Defender's Office" ??? WTH???

[Scuba]

1. My prediction: The Public Defender's Office will stop defending the Public.

[HereSince1628]

2. Walker, a shameless cronyist, waiting for the Kochs to pay him

for his lickings.

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3. Well, she must have been the most qualified applicant. Right?

right ....? Anyone? Buehler?