Scott Walker and the 1.5 Million-Dollar Menard’s Bribe

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https://www.yahoo.com/politics/wisconsin-gov-scott-walker-photo-charlie-114429739886.html
Bless the mainstream “News” media for their circumspection, but let’s call spades “spades” here, shall we, Gentle Reader? These are not “contributions”, they are BRIBES. BRIBES. The right-wingnut Teavangelical typhoon Johnnie Menard funneled at least a million and a half bribing bucks, in secret, to Scott Walker’s political operation. And he got what he paid for, too:


So a little more than three years ago, when Menard wanted to back Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker — and help advance his pro-business agenda — he found the perfect way to do so without attracting any attention: He wrote more than $1.5 million in checks to a pro-Walker political advocacy group that pledged to keep its donors secret, three sources directly familiar with the transactions told Yahoo News.

Menard’s previously unreported six-figure contributions to the Wisconsin Club for Growth — a group that spent heavily to defend Walker during a bitter 2012 recall election — seem to have paid off for the businessman and his company. In the past two years, Menard’s company has been awarded up to $1.8 million in special tax credits from a state economic development corporation that Walker chairs, according to state records.

And in his five years in office, Walker’s appointees have sharply scaled back enforcement actions by the state Department of Natural Resources — a top Menard priority. The agency had repeatedly clashed with Menard and his company under previous governors over citations for violating state environmental laws and had levied a $1.7 million fine against Menard personally, as well as his company, for illegally dumping hazardous wastes.

This is why the Roberts Court is wrong about campaign funds and speech. It is why the “Republican” party has become a criminal enterprise. When secret money buys elections, it buys our government. One more time, loudly:

When secret money buys elections, it buys our government: it buys our executive, legislative, and judicial branches.

And when skeevy crooks like Menard buy the government, we the people LOSE our government. We have already lost it in Ohio, Wisconsin, and much of the rest of the nation. We can take it back; by voting. And by being engaged, enraged citizens.

Or we can continue doing nothing, and lose it all. It’s our choice.

https://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/scott-walker-and-the-1-5-million-dollar-menards-bribe/

[WillTwain]

1. Oregon's Governor Was Run Out Of Office For Far Less

Liberals always pay higher prices.

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2. Liberals don't defend our own.

If a Dem fucks up, the party owns it and kicks the perpetrators to the curb.

Neocons pardon their perps.

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3. John Menard is the kind of person that makes the Kochs and Shelly Adelson

look positively benevolent in comparison.

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4. Glad I don't shop at the bastard's stores.