His Scam Kitty Comes to Light
Documents released by the Guardian indicate
that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) may have solicited and received
corporate checks for the 2011 Senate recall fight and his own 2012 recall
election.
The checks – cut from
corporate treasuries, not granted by individuals – were deposited into the
account of the dark money group Wisconsin
Club for Growth, which prosecutors viewed as a “subcommittee of Walker's
campaign” in violation of the state statutes (11.10 (04)) as they were
written at the time.
Moreover, it appears that
Walker and the GOP-controlled legislature later took actions to benefit a
number of these secret, corporate contributors and the public was none the
wiser.
The Guardian expose focused
on the shocking story of one corporate giver, lead pigment manufacturer Harold
Simmons, who gave a $500,000 corporate check on top of $250,000 in personal
contributions and was rewarded with a change to the law which would retroactively cancel the lawsuits
of 173 children poisoned by lead paint. But other
corporate donors got special treatment as well.
Wisconsin has had an absolute
ban on corporate contributions in politics since 1905, “when Republican
Governor ‘Fighting Bob’ LaFollette and the Wisconsin legislature” were battling
the corrupt stranglehold of railroad and timber barons on state government.
As many people say, the truth
always comes out – it may take time, but it always comes out. This classic
example.
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