Scott Walker in Hot Water Over New Allegations of Campaign Finance Violations

[Yon_Yonson]

politicususa

Scott Walker in Hot Water Over New Allegations of Campaign Finance Violations
July 7, 2011
By Sarah Jones

Walker in Hot Water Again Over New Allegations of Violating Campaign Finance Laws

This guy just won’t give it a break. First, on April 11, we had the two felony count criminal complaint filed against William Gardner, the president and CEO of Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Co., for unlawful political donations. Gardner admitted to funneling money to Walker’s campaign from his employees in order to get around the campaign finance laws and them reimbursing his employees. Gardner pled guilty to two felony counts. The railroad agreed to pay a civil forfeiture of $166,900 as part of a separate agreement and Gardner is facing two years of probation.

This is where it gets awkward for Walker. Walker is no doubt being investigated for collusion with Gardner based on their history, though these types of charges are very difficult to prove. Three months before Gardner turned himself in, Gardner’s ex girlfriend’s new boyfriend contacted the Walker campaign and he later told investigators that the campaign told him they had methods to detect illegal contributions and they had not received any. Walker denied knowledge of that conversation. Gardner and Walker had a history of illegal campaign donations, as back in Nov. 15, 2005, Garner paid %1,000.00 for illegally contributing to Walker’s earlier failed gubernatorial campaign as a lobbyist during the legislative session. Walker took over $50,000 in illegal contributions from Gardner over the years.

But today, new allegations of breaking campaign finance laws surfaced involving Wisconsin state insurance commissioner Ted Nickel and nine other donors to Governor Walker’s campaign.


The Leader Telegram reports:

Wisconsin state insurance commissioner Ted Nickel and nine other donors to Republican Gov. Scott Walker have been accused of breaking the state’s campaign finance law.

Watchdog group the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign filed a complaint Wednesday with the Government Accountability Board related to donations that exceeded the $10,000 limit allowed to be given during the campaign period.

The donations came between July 1, 2008, and the end of last year.

The problem for Walker is that his campaign once again accepted these donations, in spite of his campaign worker’s statement that they were sure they had no illegal donations because they had a system for ferreting out possible unlawful donations.

http://www.politicususa.com/en/scott-walker-new-allegations-campaign-violations

[mojowork_n]

1. Yippy Ki-YAAAYYYYY !!!!

I suppose the J-Sentinel will come out tomorrow and downplay it. They'll sprinkle it with gobs of their
most powerful soft soap. Hope the cloud of bubbles and blather can make the stench go away.

But maybe it won't.

[Yon_Yonson]

2. This story also needs sugarcoating 'Herr Walker being rated uno scariest NEOCON governor'

AlterNet / By Sarah Jaffe

July 6, 2011

The 10 Scariest GOP Governors: Bringing a Radical Right-Wing Agenda To a State Near You


The 2010 election saw a right-wing sweep of many state governor's races, and those governors haven't been shy about pushing their conservative shock treatment.

http://www.alternet.org/story/151535/the_10_scariest_gop_governors%3A_bringing_a_radical_right-wing_agenda_to_a_state_near_you/

[mojowork_n]

3. The campaign financing 10-count indictment story

did get buried by the J-S. There was coverage, but only on p. 3 of the local section.

They did write, "...other donors include(d)...Thomas Schneider of the trucking firm
Schneider National Inc.... Walker signed two bills Tuesday at Schneider's corporate
headquarters in Green Bay, one of which reduces the liability of trucking firms in
negligence cases...

but it was all sort of glossed over with disclaimers from Republican spokespeople, and
gems like, "many Republicans view the Democracy Campaign as a liberal group..."

Just the usual, same old back-and-forth, "nothing to see here, move along."

[TxVietVet]

4. The ethics of the conservanzis like Walker is just a marvel.

They want absolute power. Keep them in check. Walker and the other kochsuckers are following a path of destruction by using the examples left by Adolf Hitler.

http://investmentwatchblog.com/flashback-in-1933-the-na-zis-passed-the-enabling-act-giving-hi-tler-dictatoria%c2%adl-powers-the-first-thing-they-did-was-to-outlaw-labor-unions/

[PatrynXX]

5. Blago did bad by doing something stupid, Walker

does stuff in the open that would make Blago blush. He'll end up in jail. Maybe we can export him to the Jail blago's going.

[midnight]

6. The GAB works with KKKarl... And KKKenndy is their go to boy to

get their dirty work down.... I would think nothing will become of this and since this has been discussed before and walker walks away.... KKKennedy is going to make it happen again....