Emails Show Scott Walker's Campaign's Shady Tactics AP | By T. Richmond and M.L. Johnson | Posted: 08/22/2014 10:23 pm EDT Excerpts: MADISON, Wis. (AP)- "Newly released court documents include excerpts from emails showing that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's recall election campaign team told him to instruct donors to give to a key conservative group that would run ads for Walker and distribute money to other conservative groups backing him. The documents released Friday by a federal appeals court also show that prosecutors believe Walker personally solicited donations for conservative group Wisconsin Club for Growth to get around campaign finance limits and disclosure requirements as he fended off the recall attempt in 2012. Aides told Walker to tell donors that they could make unlimited donations to Wisconsin Club for Growth without having the gifts publicly disclosed. Wisconsin Club for Growth then funneled the money to other conservative groups that advertised on Walker's behalf. "As the Governor discussed ...he wants all the issue advocacy efforts run thru one group to ensure correct messaging," Walker fundraiser Kate Doner wrote to campaign adviser R.J. Johnson in April 2011, a little more than a year before the recall election. "We had some past problems with multiple groups doing work on 'behalf' of Gov. Walker and it caused some issues ... the Governor is encouraging all to invest in the Wisconsin Club for Growth." It's not clear whether Walker followed the instructions from his team. But the documents say millions of dollars later moved from donors he was set to speak with to Wisconsin Club for Growth, which in turn funded groups backing Walker in the recall election. The documents are part of a secret investigation into whether Walker's campaign illegally coordinated with conservative groups during the run-up to the June 2012 recall, which was spurred by anger over Walker's signature law stripping most public workers of nearly all their union rights. The probe has dogged Walker as he is locked in a dead heat with Democratic Mary Burke in the governor's race and considers a 2016 presidential run. In one of the documents, for example, Walker was scheduled to meet in spring of 2012 with real estate mogul Donald Trump, who gave Wisconsin Club For Growth $15,000 days later, prosecutors said, citing emails and bank statements. Other Wisconsin Club for Growth donors included Gogebic Taconite LLC, which has proposed opening a 4 ½-mile long iron mine in northern Wisconsin. The company gave $700,000 to Club for Growth in 2011 and 2012. Walker signed legislation last year streamlining state mining requirements and paving the way for the project. The documents don't show whether Walker directly solicited donations from that company. A spokesman for the company did not return a message seeking comment. Federal law allows groups like Wisconsin Club for Growth to accept unlimited anonymous contributions as long as they engage in only limited political activity. Prosecutors contend Walker and the club stepped over a line by working together to secretly funnel unlimited sums to groups backing Walker. The prosecutors have asked the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to allow them to restart the probe. The court released the documents tied to that appeal in response to a lawsuit filed by a coalition of media and open government groups. The documents became briefly available on a federal court website Friday afternoon. Attorneys have been arguing over which ones should be made public, and the records were quickly removed." read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/22/documents-scott-walker-campaign_n_5702016.html ...... IMO: Even as Walker revs up the conservative republican forces to ensure him a 2016 presidential run, he has a lot of baggage tofrag into a presidential race that is likely to cuase him some heart flutters even though he has the Koch Bros. and other big donors behind him, he will find that the American populace is not a naive as Wisconsin citizens. We don't take kindly to a shady president. All we have to decide on is whether we will be comfortable with a president (or governor)that has so many ties to the corrupt wealthy who make conservative government building their daily fetish. He has had the machinery of a recall set upon him shortly after becoming president...we can just imagine the illegal, sleazy imagery Walker could provoke upon the national scene and we don't mean redecorating the White House with his favorite aide.
I don't believe that Walker is up to anything shady. Have you ever considered not believing everything the left feeds you, Mr. Agent 286?
Well, my, my, my!! Will wonders never cease? Ain't it amazing how easy the FEDS can come up with emails when it's a Republican they are going after, eh? But they will fight to the death....destroy or whatever else they want to do....if it's something damaging against Democrats in the IRS or the White House.
Haven't we already been through all of this? Didn't the four prosecutors at large already try it indict Scott Walker for this and weren't they already laughed out of court? The answer is 'yes'. Thank you. That should have ended that. How many opportunities are the left going to get to trash their own credibility? A lot, apparently.
Got throwed out, it did. http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/0...l-blown-anti-conservative-fishing-expedition/
Damn. From the title I thought he did something akin to the IRS targeting.......but...no.....just more of the same stupid accusations coming from a "secret" (democrat) investigation the courts threw out a year ago. Geesh....get a clue lib's...your game isn't a secret and it's really getting old.
Answer, NO! He trolls for lib's, posts their crap and then on to next "big find". Agent's a sheep, but "down for the cause".....no matter how inane it might be.
