Scott Walker: Dismantle independent elections and ethics board

[riversedge]

Source: Wisconsin State Journal



4 hours ago • By Mark Sommerhauser | Wisconsin State Journal
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Gov. Scott Walker says he supports dismantling and replacing the state’s independent elections and ethics board, ratcheting up Republicans’ calls for change to a board that helped investigate Walker’s 2012 recall campaign.

Walker told reporters Monday he wants to scrap the state’s Government Accountability Board, or GAB, which enforces campaign finance, elections, ethics and lobbying laws.

In its place, Walker said, he supports the creation of “something completely new that is truly accountable to the people of the state of Wisconsin.” Walker left open the possibility that a replacement board could have partisan leadership, compared to the current board, made up of six former judges.

The Government Accountability Board’s director and supporters quickly responded. They called the board a national model that’s being targeted by politicians who resent its watchdog role.
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Walker is all into "reform"--He is vindictive. This is the board that approved his recall.

[riversedge]

1. "Walker's call for the elimination of the GAB is simply revenge and retribution for the GAB approvi

TRUE


http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2015/07/scott-walker-proposes-eliminating-state.html

Jul 21, 2015

..........The Board's (GAB) problem, doing its job as a watchdog agency which in WalkerLand means you are an enemy.

"I think they made a deliberate decision that their main goal, despite the stated goal of creating jobs, was to destroy their enemies," said Dane County Executive Joe Parisi, lamenting state Republicans going out of their way to wrest local control away from Madison and Dane County. (Thomas, The Capital Times)

"Walker's call for the elimination of the GAB is simply revenge and retribution for the GAB approving of an investigation of what was clearly a violation of Wisconsin campaign finance law in 2011-12," Jay Heck, director of Common Cause in Wisconsin said. "The elimination or evisceration of the GAB will only raise further questions about whether or not Walker and his campaign were involved in illegal activity. And it will be viewed by citizens as an attempt to simply eliminate any entity that puts adherence to the law above partisan fealty." (Opoien, The Capital Times)............

[turbinetree]

2. Just like his HERO..........................

Ronnie Reagan did to the Board of Regents when he became the de-facto right wing hypocrite and still is a right wing hypocrite blaming everyone of the students and teachers wanting to exercise free speech on campus.
And then just for spite abolishing the free college program saying that it was elitist

This right wing hypocrite is a very dangerous individual and he has already gotten over 130 million to be a bought and bribed politician

[Gothmog]

3. Walker likes to suppress the vote

[passiveporcupine]

9. If you can't win honestly, cheat.

That's his game.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

4. Fascist all the way. Oh, you actually were using that freedom? Aw, shucks...

[Bill USA]

5. Sieg Heil!

[valerief]

6. Geezus, he has no shame whatsoever. nt

[SoapBox]

7. Wake up America.

He (and his ilk) want to Rule with an Iron Fist.

[chapdrum]

8. Give Walker credit for this

He's not hiding his agenda.
Likely no walking back of his "ideas."

[HereSince1628]

11. Actually credit goes to the Dir of WI Club for Growth, but if you want blame Walker

Cuz he is the one that's ultimately going after the John Doe prosecutor and staff lawyers

[Barbara With]

10. Elections in WI are being hacked.

I was at the 2011 Supreme Court recount and found the touchscreen DRE poll tape dated March 29, 2011 1:30 AM for an April 5 election. This led me on a trail down a path where I discovered exactly what "election fraud" looks like.

Election fraud is not just corrupt election officials “finding” 14,000 votes two days after an election;

It’s not just voting machines that can be rigged with no discernible trace and proven by Princeton University to be hackable, and controlled by a shady organization operating out of a strip mall in Minnesota;

It’s not just gerrymandering by redistricting using $395-an-hour attorneys at taxpayer cost to draw up secret maps and making legislators sign secrecy agreements to diminish democratic representation;

It’s not just disenfranchising and intimidating students;

It’s not just robocalls telling people that they do not need to vote if they already signed the petition for the recall;

It’s not just exit polling not matching the previous exit polling minutes before;

It’s not just the Central Tabulator that controls votes remotely;

It’s not just dark money flooding the state to influence all elections;

It’s not just a voter suppression law that outright keeps voters from the polls and was rammed through the legislature only to later be declared unconstitutional;

It’s not just Election Day confusion because of closed polling places, misinforming the public, providing clerks with confusing information and running out of ballots;

It’s not just threatening to close DMVs in Democratic districts, the only place where IDs can be obtained;

It’s not just Americans for Prosperity sending out absentee ballot application forms to Democrats with erroneous information meant to mislead;

It’s not just propaganda that makes people believe the state has turned right wing to “balance the budget“;

It’s not just an ALEC-type, right-wing organization named the Election Assistance Commission, the brainchild of voting machine companies;

It’s not just a Government “Accountability” Board whose staff censors information going to board members;

It’s not just voting machine distributor Command Central giving out two free touch screen voting machines to wards all across the State in exchange for their Optiscans, which require paper ballots, thereby eliminating any paper trail;

It’s not just Democrats who concede elections before all the votes are counted and don’t demand justice;

It’s not just a highly disturbing trend of former blue and purple voting districts suddenly turning solid red;

Election fraud is all of this and more, and Wisconsin has verifiable evidence that election fraud is alive and functioning in this state.

Under these conditions, it’s no wonder WMC has been able to buy themselves a Chief Justice, and that John Doe was dismissed. Corruption is rampant here.

Please help and sign this petition to the White House asking Obama to engage the D of J to investigate the WI Supreme Court and their conflict of interest.

https://unitedindefenseofthewater.wordpress.com/2015/07/19/action-alert-sign-petition-asking-president-obama-to-continue-john-doe-ii-investigation/

[restorefreedom]

12. this guy is scary in so many ways

and is now number two behind trump in the polls.