This Could Be the Start of Scott Walker’s Bridgegate

[DonViejo]

By Emma Roller

More than 27,000 emails were unsealed Wednesday after a years-long investigation into Scott Walker's campaign for Wisconsin governor. And, for the first time, Walker has been directly tied to a secret email system that members of his staff used to coordinate his gubernatorial campaign while Walker was Milwaukee County executive.

Among the pile of emails, it was found that Walker also used his campaign email to conduct county executive business. In June 2010, Walker emailed the conservative radio host Charlie Sykes and encouraged him to get information on Democratic groups from his office. "Ask [my official office] and we would be happy to send over the info," Walker wrote.

Some background

Before Scott Walker was elected governor in 2010, while he was still serving as Milwaukee County executive, his staff set up a secret wireless router in the county office over which they would communicate about the campaign. Walker's aides regularly exchanged emails about the campaign during business hours, but for the first time, one of those emails directly implicates Walker in breaking campaign law.

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

"Consider youself now in the 'inner circle,'" Walker's administration director, Cynthia Archer, wrote to Walker aide Kelly Rindfleisch just after the two exchanged a test message.

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[Isoldeblue]

1. Goody! Another dirty rethug poised to bite the dust!

[myrna minx]

2. I hope that crook winds up in jail. n/t

[madaboutharry]

8. +1

[Squinch]

3. Oh please, oh please, oh please!

[Cha]

4. I haven't been following this at all so now I know..

"...But the two cases bear striking similarities: two Republican governors with national profiles and national ambitions, allegedly using their public office to boost their political standing, all the while distancing themselves from the work their staffs sullied themselves with."

They both have delusions of grandeur way out of their league. Cheat your way to the White House.. bush is their role model.

Weird to see Walker with President Obama..

Mahalo DonViejo

[rocktivity]

5. You can't tell the Bridge-Gates without a scorecard, LOL

New Jersey: Bridge(t)Gate, Chris ("Governor Soprano&quot Christie
Wisconsin: BridgeGate Midwest, Scott Walker
North Carolina: BridgeGate South, Pat McCrory


rocktivity

[kimbutgar]

6. Secret wireless router - how devious and illegal

Private email address, private laptops running his campaign on tax payer dollars. It's laughable those who say government is the problem are the reason government is a problem.

[Beacool]

7. Ooohh, this is getting good.