A former top aide to Governor Scott Walker turned against him and made an ad endorsing his Democratic challenger Tony Evers.
“A second former top aide to Gov. Scott Walker has come out against him, saying the GOP governor’s team told him to meet with payday loan lobbyists and discouraged him from creating documents that could be turned up under the state’s open records law.
“Former Financial Institutions Secretary Peter Bildsten joins ex-Corrections Secretary Ed Wall in excoriating their former boss, claiming they were told not to send emails and cutting digital ads for Walker’s Democratic challenger, state schools Superintendent Tony Evers.
“A third former top aide to Walker has also contended he was told not to create documents that would have to be turned over under the public records law.
“I was told to avoid creating electronic records,” Bildsten says in a digital ad debuting Monday. “I thought Scott Walker was different, but he’s just another politician looking out for himself.”
The people of Wisconsin should throw this charlatan out of office. Walker has earned a stunning defeat. Let’s hope this is the beginning of the end for this puppet of the Koch brothers.
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It’s amusing how the anti-public school crowd all become such passionate public school supporters during election years.
It’s magical. All the Republicans in Ohio have dropped the anti-public school language too.
They’ll pick it back up the minute they are re-elected.
Wisconsin still has time to stop the bleeding before the damage to their public schools is permanent and irreversible. Hopefully they’ll grab the opportunity and clean house.
It doesn’t get better the longer you leave them in office- it gets worse.
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Dems in Ohio are ok with charter school but for-profit charter schools are bad. The ECOT scandle is political;y useful but no one is really looking at the financial losses to public schools caused by charters.
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I quizzed a campaigner for Aftab (running for Chabot’s job). She said he opposes charter schools and said, he put it in writing.
Is the union informing its membership? They live in our communities, have neighbors and family they can persuade.
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Chiara,
Your statement: “They’ll pick it back up the minute they are re-elected.”
YUP.
Sickening.
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Yup is right.
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And I don’t want to leave out Pepsi when discussing Koch, this:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/19/us-democrats-are-struggling-to-make-sense-of-a-socialist-surge
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LCT,
Thanks for the link. As reported, the manipulated U.S. “free market” resulted in more than 1/2 of Dems rejecting the economic contrivance of the richest 0.1%.
An economy of monopolies, barriers to entry by other businesses, the use of consumer profits to undermine democracy,…is not capitalism.
The citizens’ rejection is wholly the fault of Bill Gates, Charles and David Koch, Enron’s John Arnold, etc. If only, they could take their money to hell with them. Instead they spent their money on earth to create hell. Bitsy’s McMansion hell, Erik Prince’s mercenaries, Gates’ schools-in-a-box, and the Koch’s defeat of taxes for city zoos far from where they live, are cases in point.
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Walker beat the recall effort and was reelected in 2014. The state went Republican two years later when voters across Wisconsin put the state legislature into GOP hands and helped give the White House to Donald Trump. Not to mention that Russ Feingold lost two times to a far right wing Ayn Rand/libertarian nudnik. Will the people in Wisconsin finally come to their senses? I hope so.
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hahahaha! He thought Wlkler was different? Cognitive dissonance defined!
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