Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Walker dropping out vs Margaret Thatcher death?

Which was a better feeling

Jewel Repetition posted:

I'm just stomping on the dust at this point but I really hate Walker.

Top City Homo posted:

too bad he isn't dead

quote:

Scott Walker remains unpopular among Wisconsin voters in the first poll conducted since the Republican governor ended his presidential campaign.

More than six in 10 Wisconsin voters, 62 percent, do not want Walker to run for a third term as governor in 2018, according to the results of a new Marquette University Law Poll out Wednesday. Just 35 percent said he should seek a third term.

Walker's approval rating slid to a new low: 37 percent, with 59 percent of voters disapproving.

If Walker had stayed in the presidential race, just 28 percent of Republicans said they would vote for him in the state's primary, while 55 percent said they would vote for another

zen death robot posted:

He had about 1% in the primary polling so 37% probably seems incredibly popular by comparison.

Philthy posted:

The people who voted for him here are so proud of him still. You should see the comments on news articles about him. Its just team red till the end I guess.

Reuters posted:

Carly Fiorina has emerged as the Republican candidate of the moment in conservative fundraising circles, drawing the notice of the billionaire Koch brothers and other wealthy donors who could instantly remake her shoestring presidential campaign.

Fiorina's show-stealing performance in a Republican presidential debate last month, and her subsequent surge in the polls, has prompted industrialists Charles and David Koch to take a “serious look” at the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive, according to three sources close to the brothers.

She has now moved to the short list of candidates the Kochs may support with their reported $1 billion war chest, the sources said. Florida Senator Marco Rubio is among those on the coveted list, the sources said.

A spokesman for the Kochs declined to comment

Yvershek posted:

Managed to pile on more debt for himself.

"National Journal reported Monday that new federal financial documents showed that Walker had credit-card debts totaling more than $20,000 from two separate cards."
"In April, The Boston Globe estimated that Walker's net worth was -$72,500." http://www.businessinsider.com/scott-walker-has-tens-of-thousands-of-dollars-worth-of-credit-card-debt-2015-8


and now

quote:

Fiscal Conservative Scott Walker Spent Like a Drunken Sailor, Put Kids on Payroll
Reckless spending on exorbitant salaries killed the Walker campaign.

As the saying goes, campaigns don’t end, they just run out of money.

Scott Walker’s two-month presidential fling proved this maxim in spectacular fashion, as his third quarter finance filing screams a lack of fiscal probity.

The Wisconsin governor’s campaign, which shuttered Sept. 21, burned through cash faster than Donald Trump fired apprentices.

The first glaring problem was the size of the operation: Walker had 84 paid staff members on his team, not including an assembly of outside consultants who also collected checks.

But it was the exorbitant salaries that caused a mammoth immediate drain on the budget.

Photographer Andrew Snow, assigned to trail Walker at events and snap images of the candidate, collected $11,700 a month -- on pace to make $140,000 a year.
Alyson Higgins, a personal aide to Tonette Walker, the governor’s wife, was allocated a salary of $89,000.

Walker employed six people to deal with the media, a team larger than most operations. At the helm was communications director Kirsten Kukowski, making $18,000 a month for an annual salary of more than $220,000. That’s an amount considerably higher than most campaign managers make, including Walker’s own, Rick Wiley. For comparison, The Wall Street Journal reported this summer that Ben Carson’s campaign manager Barry Bennett, is on pace to make $210,000.

AshLee Strong, Kukowski’s communications deputy, was to make $164,000.

Lauren Fine, serving in a junior role as press assistant, was slated for an annual salary close to $70,000.

Wiley, the former Republican National Committee operative tasked with constructing the staff and budget, was scheduled to make about $195,000 over a year -- a heaping sum for sure, but still less than Kukowski.

Matthew Mason, the campaign’s political director, was making even more money -- $22,000 a month, on pace to collect $268,000 annually.

And even Walker’s own children got into the campaign casino windfall.

Twenty-one-year-old Matt Walker and 20-year-old Alex Walker, who indicated they would take time off from college to campaign for their father, each took identical salaries from the Walker campaign.
Each drew monthly stipends of $1,542, placing them on pace to draw $18,509 annually.

In the end Walker raised $7.4 million for his short-lived bid, but spent close to 90 percent of what he raised in just two months.

But his filing with the Federal Election Commission indicates the governor still has more post-campaign fundraising to do. He has $200,000 in outstanding debts that still need to be paid.

Do It Once Right posted:

There's a good strong argument that it was never anything more than him spreading the wealth to his family, friends, and colleagues.

nachos posted:

See how bad it is for business when you pay your employees a fair wage? Scott Walker May-July 2019

The New York Times posted:

CHICAGO — Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who gave up his quest for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination last month, signed into law on Friday a measure that limits a longstanding tool against political corruption that has been used in investigations of Mr. Walker and his allies.

The John Doe law, as it is called in Wisconsin, has given prosecutors the power to obtain search warrants and order people to testify and turn over documents in investigations that typically take place in secret.

Under the measure, which easily passed both Republican-controlled chambers of the State Legislature, prosecutors will no longer be allowed to use the John Doe law to investigate crimes that include bribery and misconduct in office. The legislation will also limit proceedings to six months and lift an order that barred subjects of an investigation from discussing it publicly.

Prosecutors can still use the John Doe law to investigate violent crimes and drug-related felonies.

Six of Mr. Walker’s aides or allies were convicted as a result of a John Doe investigation. Mr. Walker’s former government office and, later, his campaign were the focus of John Doe investigations of campaign activities and fund-raising, but he was never charged.

Kelly M. Rindfleisch, deputy chief of staff to Mr. Walker during his time as Milwaukee county executive, pleaded guilty in 2012 to felony misconduct in public office after facing charges that she had used county time to perform campaign work.

Republicans said the change in the law was required to curb what they called unnecessarily long and intrusive investigations that amounted to political witch hunts. They said that other tools, like grand juries, could be used to investigate possible political crimes. In a joint statement last month, Robin Vos, the Assembly speaker, and Scott Fitzgerald, the Senate majority leader, said the legislation would allow “sensible changes to the state’s broad John Doe statutes.”

This week, the Assembly approved the bill overwhelmingly, 61 to 36, and the Senate passed it 18 to 14. Both votes fell along party lines.

Democrats denounced the bill as a measure to give politicians cover for committing crimes in office.

Peter Barca, the Democratic minority leader of the Assembly, said last week in anticipation of the bill’s passing, “The era of clean, open and transparent government in Wisconsin is over.”

“I fear for the future of democracy in Wisconsin, and I am not overstating the problem, in my judgment,” Mr. Barca said. Democrats also decried a bill, passed this week, to loosen campaign finance restrictions in the state.

Jennifer Shilling, the Senate minority leader, said in a statement on Friday that the bill to limit use of the John Doe law was “a gross abuse of political power.”

“Republicans should be less concerned about covering up Governor Walker’s political scandals and more focused on helping hardworking Wisconsin families,” she said.

Laurel Patrick, a spokeswoman for Mr. Walker, did not respond to a request for comment.

Jay Heck, executive director of Common Cause in Wisconsin, a nonprofit organization that lobbies for clean and open government and opposed the new legislation, said the John Doe law had allowed district attorneys to successfully prosecute political corruption that might not have been pursued otherwise.

“What this new law does is it exempts from the John Doe process crimes that are committed involving elections, campaign finance and ethics,” he said. “In other words, the crimes that politicians would be most likely to commit. They have carved out a special exemption for themselves.”

Harrow posted:

I gotta get out of this state.

Andrew Bahl, The Daily Cardinal posted:

Legislative Republicans circulated a bill last week that would significantly change the state’s worker’s compensation laws.

The proposal would diminish the amount of compensation owed to an employee who was injured due to negligence, reduce the statute of limitations for “traumatic injuries” to two years and require that employees seek treatment within the employer’s health care network.

The bill’s co-authors, state Rep. John Spiros, R-Marshfield, and state Sen. Duey Stroebel, R-Saukville, said the bill would prevent workers from abusing the system.

“This bill continues to ensure that when an employee is injured at work, the employee will be covered under worker’s comp with the goal of receiving the necessary treatment and returning to work within his or her limitations,” the authors wrote in a memo seeking co-sponsorship. “However the bill will also ensure that the system is not abused and the scales of justice remain balanced and impartial.”

The measure would also authorize the state to more aggressively investigate fraud claims and exempt employers from paying temporary disability payments if the employee is fired for good cause.

The memo said the bill incorporates changes proposed last session, in addition to adding “several measures that address fraud and unfairness within the worker’s comp system.”

State Rep. Christine Sinicki, D-Milwaukee, said the changes would be “devastating” to the system, which originated in the state over a century ago, and that it is a continuation of a series of attacks on Wisconsin workers.

“The most important part of this is striking down 100 years of history on worker’s comp,” Sinicki said, adding that the bill continues a “constant chipping away of worker’s rights and worker protections” initiated by Legislative Republicans.

Sinicki also accused the co-authors of circumventing the state’s Worker’s Compensation Advisory Council, a coalition of labor and business leaders which advises the Legislature on the issue.

“Republicans have disregarded the Advisory Council,” Sinicki said. “It’s not an agreed upon bill, therefore it is not properly introduced to the Legislature.”

Sinicki noted that the bill could be up for a public hearing as soon as next week.

Hilario Baldness posted:

[/wisconsindemocracy]



This is an honest question; is there another governor more authoritarian and pathological than Scotty?

Melmac posted:

Hahahaha, eat poo poo, Walker!

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-rules-wisconsin-right-work-law-unconstitutional-n553286

Hilario Baldness posted:

It's going to last for 5 seconds until the state supreme court overturns it.

Melmac posted:

Maybe not. it's the first time anyone even filed such a lawsuit (all other states are too pussy)

Hilario Baldness posted:

[/wisconsindemocracy]



This is an honest question; is there another governor more authoritarian and pathological than Scotty?

point of return posted:

Rick Snyder?

Phuzzy posted:

Constant Hamprince posted:

Well Paul Ryan shermaned himself out of the running for Kleveland Kompromise Kandidate, does that mean this retarded sack of poo poo is the GOP's new hope?

Constant Hamprince posted:

Well Paul Ryan shermaned himself out of the running for Kleveland Kompromise Kandidate, does that mean this retarded sack of poo poo is the GOP's new hope?