Capitol damage cost claim based on 1 page of notebook paper

[iwishiwas]

Source: Journal Sentinel



Capitol damage cost claim based on 1 page of notebook paper
Handwritten page was all state had behind $7 million figure

By Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel

March 30, 2011 |(59) Comments

Madison — State officials' controversial courtroom testimony that protesters did more than $7 million in damage to the Capitol was based on a single handwritten page.

An open records request by the Journal Sentinel on the damage estimate turned up only one page of notebook paper listing costs written before the courtroom testimony. Other e-mails from state officials listing areas to check for potential damage also were released, but there were no others with any dollar figures written before the court testimony.
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The state also released a letter from Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch to Dane County Circuit Judge John Albert, who presided in the Capitol access case, saying his testimony on the costs was an effort to give the court what information the agency had "in an expedited fashion."

"In normal circumstances, I prefer to have more complete figures before I rely upon them for my own decision-making purposes and before they are released to the public," Huebsch said.


Read more: http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/118951264.html

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Huebsch is an evil poodle of Gov. Walker.

He only purpose that day was to demean the protesters and he did it a court of law!!

[Downwinder]

1. Government waste. Wasted salary.

[forty6]

2. After Walker is recalled from the Governor's office next year... I can see..

he will be ready for his own show on Fox News...where they lie and twist the truth and just make stuff like that up all the time

[peace frog]

36. That will be moonlighting for Walker, his real reward

will be a hugely lucrative position in a Koch-related industry...where he'll screw that up, too. But then GOPers always fail upwards, don't they.

[certainot]

3. add 1000 RW parroting radio stations and i't a big deal, like those professors'

emails

for turning molehills into mountains you can't beat an outraged blowhard on the biggest soapboxes in the country, protected by call screeners

[66 dmhlt]

10. Oh, come on ... surely THIS positively prove $7 million worth of damages

No, really - that's the total writing done to document $7,0000,000.00 worth of work:
http://media.journalinteractive.com/documents/stein.pdf

[Botany]

11. This has to be a joke

n/t

[66 dmhlt]

29. Nope - straight from the "Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel"

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/118951264.html

Just click on the "one page of notebook paper" hyperlink and it'll take you to the above PDF

[Ed Suspicious]

12. 7.5 million!

[Ed Suspicious]

14. I especially love the asterisk denoting that

the estimate would not cover carpet replacement. That info couldn't fit on the page? They were waiting for a call back from carpet outlet? WTF?


edited for spelling

[Botany]

18. Bet you they could get one of the deals $99.00 labor to ..

.... install carpet in the whole house .... + the cost of the carpet.

[Doctor_J]

25. Call Empire and get the 3rd room free

588-2300..Empire!

[haele]

28. Ah, the time honored "sneak in some desired remodeling" on the damage estimate -

I'm sure that Walker and his cronies probably wanted to include some top-of-the-line security investments added to the capitol (Statuary that shoots lazer beams at protesters! Getting 4 years of the Xe Premium Security Package - if you allow them to put HD cameras in the ladies room!!!)

Haele

[certainot]

34. they hired a military contractor to do the estimate

and are still trying to get the most expensive bid on carpeting.

[Pacifist Patriot]

46. Am I reading this correctly? Half a million dollars for coming up with the estimate!?

Shit, for that kind of money the bloke should be able to afford premium stationery.

[underpants]

50. 1 page or "13,000 emails" either one works for them

they tell the story
repeat it
then talk about their own report like it is confirmed fact

In the "Climategate" nonsense the "13,000 emails" made it sound like it was an expansive collection and an impressive representation. In the next sentence of the speel they cited 7 "questionable" emails.....from 13,000. Of course they don't mention the 2 (or was it 3?) government reviews that found the whole thing was completely contrived nonsense.

[certainot]

53. and "email gate" was a great example of talk radio feeding general media

that distorted molehill wouldn't have been turned into a mountain in time to weaken obama's position in copenhagen if it wasn't for the concerted efforts of limbaugh especially- he devoted a week at least in the lead up to the conference. at first the general media left it alone but it after a week of pounding from 600 stations on behalf of the kock bros and company it was ready for prime time and professors who limbaugh named repeatedly, foaming at the mouth, were getting death threats.

[myrna minx]

4. K&R n/t

[TxVietVet]

5. These kochroaches are like the bu$h imbeciles.

Lie, lie, lie. Remember the missing "w"s on keyboards. Trying to stir up trouble based on their lies. It's funny when the truth comes out, the kochroaches scurry away and hide. F*cking conservanazi douche bags.

[The Wizard]

51. The missing Ws on the keyboards

translated into $2000 for each missing W. No wonder the treasury looting wasn't noticed during the Bush cartel's reign of (t)error

[TxVietVet]

57. It was all a hoax. conservanazi bu$hit.

[Ed Suspicious]

6. Be sure to click on the link to the actual document...

presented in court.


Priceless



Worthless



Hilarious

[merbex]

9. I would LAUGH if a contractor presented an estimate to me that looked like that

THEN I would call the Better Business Bureau

The GOP really does think EVERYONE except themselves are stupid.

[AlbertCat]

33. The GOP really does think EVERYONE except themselves are stupid.

And they've turned government into the Judge Judy show.

"I have some polaroids of the damage his dog did to my rhododendrons, your honor!" :eyes:

[blondeatlast]

24. I tried not to giggle and failed miserably. Welcome to DU;

I like your sense of humor already!

[freshwest]

44. You left out disgusting and legal, though. Welcome to DU! I like your sense of humor.

[reformist2]

7. Hilarious! Sometimes it's little things like this that change minds...

[deacon]

8. K + R

[Roy Rolling]

13. The biggest error

On the cost estimate notebook page itself, is that the one-page estimate is priced at $500,000. Half-a-million dollars for the notebook page of made up numbers.

Even funnier, if you can call it that, is the asterisk saying the cost estimate DOES NOT INCLUDE any carpet replacement.

Is there not a penalty for trying to mislead a court? I mean, the right-wing echo chamber may be morons and repeat anything their minions declare, but presenting such lies to a court with the intent to mislead is called perjury in most cases....

[Ed Suspicious]

15. LOL! I posted the same thing about the carpet qualifier

just before I read your post. Great minds think alike?

[Roy Rolling]

16. LOL

your post was funnier. ;-)

[flor-de-jasmim]

17. On the estimate...

I thought it was hilarious thinking that a real estimate would even cost that much, but you're right - if that half-million is for the production of the PAGE already submitted, I have some suggestions for cost reduction of government!

[Roy Rolling]

19. Already taking credit on the Hannity Show and Limbaugh Circus

I'll bet Walker is also scheduling a news conference to say how he saved taxpayers $7 million by not spending the money in his estimate.

Fox News is sending a remote crew to cover the event for the sheeple. :banghead:

[MrMickeysMom]

20. Yeah, I do believe that's their new app

I recognized the font of the freeware - "FileMakerFuckTard"

[proReality]

21. If I were the judge...

I'd accept nothing less than before and after photos, along with a precise itemized list.

[sadbear]

22. Sounds like the republicans' health care bill

Might as well be written on toilet paper.

[Snoutport]

23. wasn't this perjury?

[JawJaw]

26. "does NOT include carpet replacement"

Phew!

I'm glad they cleared that one up.

Been wrestling with the calculations for hours wondering if they'd accounted for sufficient shagpile.

Gotta love Republican fiscal acumen..

[Enthusiast]

27. Evil, poodle.

[quakerboy]

30. I take a different read on this

A single page of notebook paper was the only thing the could find for an open records request?

While it remains ridiculous, I suspect this means that they are not handing over all the records they are supposed to. In fact, at this point in the game, I would be a little shocked if that whole crew hasn't had the shredders and data scrubbers going for a while now, in hopes of avoiding anyone being able to get the real behind the scenes communications.

[999998th word]

37. They're too busy scrubbing data 4 FOIA re A.L.E.C.-A.F.P.+

all the other possible scenarios.

[iwishiwas]

38. Probably you are right.

[Plucketeer]

31. There's an odd omission on that professional estimate

It doesn't list the primary damages. Those damages would be the ones done to that sturcture when Wisconsin voters seated those ass-hats into it's offices! You can damned sure bet that THOSE damages easily exceed $7 Mil.!

[Blue Owl]

32. HA HA HA HA HA HA

What a bunch of dumbasses.

[toddwv]

35. Knowing Walker, he probably paid $2.5 million for that assessment.

[RedCloud]

39. No doubt the original page had more incriminating evidence on it.

[thelordofhell]

40. And it would have been non-union labor

How did this governor get so many cronies so fast?

[cognoscere]

41. It was more likely a sheet of toilet paper, given that 99% of

what any Republican offers has been pulled out of somebody's ass.

[russspeakeasy]

42. I got a more complete estimate for a brake job.

[freshwest]

43. So the GOP gang just found a way to steal $7 million of taxpayer money?

[hootinholler]

45. So let me get this straight...

I can write down some numbers on a piece of paper, testify in a court of law to them being the cost to clean up the capitol, and it's not perjury?

-Hoot

[MasonJar]

47. Walker is such a joke. I can't wait until he goes down!

[DRex]

48. Doesn't matter. It's worth it.

Think of all the awful bullshit your govt spends money on every day. Stuff that you would be obliged to try and stop if you were there and saw it happening.

7M for a glimpse of what democracy used to mean, and may yet mean again, definitely worth it.

[rpannier]

49. They'll eventually turn to the lawyers for the RIAA to tell everyone what the damages are

75 trillion dollars

[Canuckistanian]

52. Except for who funds them, they're just making it up as they go along

There's no grand plan. They're in it for the money. Period.

All their energies are directed at satisfying the Koch brothers and thinking up new publicity stunts.

Someone should start a countdown clock for for the RECALL of Walker and put it on a windows gadget or iPhone app.

[Blacksheep214]

54. Professionalism

What a concept!

I wonder if this is what a no bid contract looks like.

I understand why the repukes are budget killers. They have no clue how to properly run a government which doesn't pay off big business. This sheet is proof.

No accountability for anything! Ever!

[onethatcares]

55. I would love to be the estimator on his remodeling projects

I'd be swimming in commission.

On the other hand, if that is what they rely on to spend our tax dollars, you can see why the pentagon gets to waste billions.

BTW: Anyone know what happened to the 865 million in cash that disappeared from the Iraq Provisional authority under Paul Bremmer?

[Botany]

56. Anyone know what happened to the 865 million in cash ....

.... My guess is some of it made its way back to the USA and pays for republicans, tea party people,
and ads that flood the t.v. and radio such as the crap Ari Fleischer puts out.

The Iraq war was all about the dollars and my guess is that the right wing / military / industry complex got a huge
"slush fund" out of the unneeded war.