SCOTT WALKER’S SHAKEY PAST CONTINUES TO HAUNT HIM

The Anti-Union Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker

The problem is that not enough political parties are expressing outrage.

 

I have been exposing the negative aspects of Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker, ever since he was  taken in by a phone call from a fake Koch Brother that was recorded and released.  And I was then surprised when the people of Wisconsin did not recall Walker after what he did against the union workers in Wisconsin.  But when as the governor, you have the support of a Republican state House and Senate, I guess that’s just par for the course.

Well, some others that have been following Governor Walker’s past activities have now shown that the corrupt Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation  (WEDC), which Walker created and has chaired, was responsible for handing out more than $124 million to Wisconsin businesses without any formal staff review.  

A Wisconsin State Senator Dave Hansen (D-Green Bay) has called for the closure of the troubled WEDC recently after it was revealed that WEDC officials failed to perform the critical underwriting for millions in taxpayer supported loans it made to 27 companies.  “WEDC has been an unmitigated disaster from the start. It has been one scandal after another, squandered millions of dollars and failed to produce any significant numbers of jobs,” said Hansen a longtime critic. “There is no way to justify its existence any longer. It is time to end WEDC. It is beyond repair and the taxpayers deserve better.”

This Republican, Walker, is expected to formally launch his presidential campaign by mid-July.  But he has been hounded by troubles with this quasi-private jobs agency he created shortly after taking office in 2011.

An internal review released Friday showing that WEDC gave out 27 award contracts to 24 companies between July 2011 and June 2013, and it was all done without a staff review. This was discovered during a review of 371 awards WEDC made in its first two years of operation.

The documents detailing the awards were made public late last week, all in advance of an up-coming WEDC board meeting for discussing one troubled unsecured loan that went to a failing company owned by a major Walker donor.

Please note that all of this questionable activity was all carried out under Walker's direct oversight.

What is amazing is that none of the local Wisconsin papers are publishing any of this, which is information that is readily available to the public.  Incredibly, the Sunday Milwaukee Journal Sentinel had nothing on these stories and the Sunday Wisconsin State Journal in Madison had nothing….?  Now how did that happen?

Should Governor Walker become the GOP’s choice as their 2016 presidential nominee, one can only hope that some of the many stories of Walker’s questionable activities in his climb to the state’s governorship will come to light.

But at this point, hope is all there is out there.

Copyright G.Ater  2015