It was big breaking news in February when Scott Walker revealed to the world that he had retained defense attorneys in relation to the on-going John Doe investigation of his campaign staff during his time as county exec.
Today the plot thickened. It turns out that Walker had retained those attorneys well before February of this year. He hired them sometime last year. Today we learned that Scott Walker paid his criminal defense attorneys $55,000 this year alone. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinal reports:
Gov. Scott Walker personally owed the law firms for his two criminal defense lawyers more than $55,000 at the end of 2011, according to his recently filed financial disclosure statement.
Walker said in Feburary that he had hired former federal prosecutor John Gallo and Milwaukee defense attorney Michael Steinle to assist him with the ongoing John Doe investigation into activities during Walker's tenure as county executive.
But the first-term Republican governor must have retained the pair long before he made it public.
As of Dec. 31, Walker owed more than $50,000 to Sidley Austin, a large Chicago-based firm that employs Gallo. Walker also disclosed that he owed between $5,000 and $50,000 to Terschan, Steinle & Ness, the Milwaukee firm where Steinle is a partner.
The state requires public officials and political candidates to disclose in the annual statement any creditor to which they owe more than $5,000. Wisconsin officials and candidates then must say whether the debt is greater than or up to $50,000.
As our friend Ruth Coniff of the Progressive Magazine has told us, Scott Walker's biggest problem for the recall is his close association with this on-going John Doe investigation. John Nichols, Washington Correspondent for the Nation Magazine, calls this development "VERY interesting and significant".
Meanwhile, out in Washington State, the Republican candidate for Governor is making sure his state's residents know he has nothing to do with Gov. Walker.
Rob McKenna, the two-term attorney general who is aiming to become the Evergreen State’s first Republican governor in more than 30 years, told a gathering of Puget Sound Carpenters last week that he’ll strive for a “positive relationship between labor and management,” even lamenting the agenda pursued by Walker.
“We need to have a good strong relationship between labor and management in this state,” McKenna said at the April 11 meeting, according to the audio that was secretly recorded. “Now unfortunately because of a couple of governors — particularly Scott Walker — everyone thinks that someone who’s going to be a Republican governor, they’re going to be Scott Walker. I’m not Scott Walker. This is not Wisconsin. This is Washington state.”
We're not sure this McKenna guy would be any good for his home state, but we sure think he's doing the right thing distancing himself from Walker.
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I will never again listen to any songs by this blood lusting killer. From is caged animals who can not escape his bow or gun. Be a man Ted go out and kill something like one of those caged bears or big cats with nothing but your bare hands! Better yet go to Africa and take on rhino! You are much less of a man. You have bragged about your sex with many women, But not one has even been in the celebrity rags!
as ed schultz threatened to rip cheneys heart out where is your outrage? why did obamas secret service refuse to talk to ed? this is a death threat. cheney still has ss protection as he recieves numerous threats. what ed said is far far worse than what ted said. so spare us your selective outrage.
did he? You know Cheney should have never gotten that heart transplant he little life left to live, some else could have made better use of that organ. But of course he's got the money and title to pull strings other people can't
Course this isn't Mortal Kombat people don't go around punching each others hearts out their enemies' chests
Do we know they contacted Ted Nugent? More importantly you can't say you want to kill the president Cheney is the former vice president so believe it actually does become far less serious
but of course the statements aren't quite the same Ted said they needed to go out and cut their(obama supporters) heads off in november and that he would be in jail or dead if obama was re-elected clearly suggesting he would kill obama if he was re-elected. You can play dumb and pretend that's not what he was implying but it is clear
And by the way Cheney doesn't recieve secret service protection becaue he receives threats he receives it because he's the former vice president and you get it while your potentially running, elected, and for some years after you leave office.......so threats have nothing to do with it you receive protection for a certain number of years even after you've left office
Not at all strange. The NRA was, until recently, co-corporate chair of ALEC. That's how they got the insane, incredible gun laws passed.
Maybe he can get the Koch Bros to pay his attorney fees. I'm sure they'd be glad to do it.
You're damn McKenna we in the WA aren't going to be fooled by any we must attack unions to save the budget ideas. We won't be fooled by it and we won't accept it. But I find it unlikely he will make such a move since even our Republicans are actually quite reasonable people.
Now on Scott Walker as I understand it he is the first governor in his state's history to have a criminal defense fund. I'm very interested to see where this John Doe investigation goes because as of right now we know that some of his campaign staff have admittted to illegal uses of public materials for his campaign I'd be surprised if he didn't know about it.........this also goes up the Reince "we'd have problems with caterpillars" Priebus who worked with Walker
although as far as the RNC chairman goes I'd be satisfied if he just explained what kind of name "Reince" is......
He thinks he's untouchable! The MEN in BLACK will be paying him a visit! And he MAY get his death wish!!!!
Typical liberal response wanting black men to rise up and kill white people. If only you weren't so brain washed by the liberal elite media you'd see that Scott Walker and the GOP want to free average people from the stalinsky oppression of Barack Obama by giving our money to those who need it most, big oil and corporations.
Mo' money mo' problems, no money no problems
What part of Men In Black don't you understand ?
somebody doesn't get the joke
I am surprise Ted belongs to the NRA, they are the kind of nuts behind a weapon that gives the NRA a bad name. When he says he's a patriot, didn't he escape the draft?
According to Ted there was too much affirmative action in the military so he couldn't be part of the military because a minority took his spot.....
you'd think the Romney camp would have enough sense not to have someone so clearly riding the crazy train to be out as a surrogate for them
In my own opininon no one should disrespect our president.that is inciteing violance .and we have already seen what can happen when that kind of talk is so carelessley throwen around.just in case no one remembers Gabby Giffords is by the grace of God still recovering from a shotting of another mad man.this kind of talk has no purpose in a presidebtial race.