Wisconsin Stonewalled by Walker

As veterans' money-stealing Tim Russell, Scott Walker's former top aide, makes a new motion signaling attacks on the John Doe judge and the DA's office, Tom Barrett has a new ad out that lays out the case against this band of defilers.

The ad comes as a new report reveals Scott Walker is a serial liar whose stonewalling prompted the John Doe proceedings back in 2010.

Walker Is Desperate, as Rightwingers Slur John Doe Judge

Update: Scott Walker says he hired criminal defense attorneys to be "efficient." And that his criminal defense fund will not be used for his aides, just for himself. Walker admits implicitly that he is being investigated, charged or convicted regarding his crimes related to misconduct in office and illegal campaigning. Meanwhile, the Legal Defense Fund Transparency Act will be introduced in the Wisconsin legislature, as Walker continues to refuse to disclose details regarding his legal defense fund.

Scott Walker's PR machine is, as predicted here in April, slurring presiding John Doe judge, appellate Judge Neal Nettesheim.

That didn't take long; in reaction to the John Doe criminal corruption ads no doubt.

No word from Walker that's he innocent.

No word from Walker demanding that his aides tell the truth.

We did get a vow from Walker that he won't pardon his criminally charged aides—Tuesday, May 29. Thanks, Scott!

But no word from Walker that his aides didn't steal from veterans, and did not use "some of the funds to pay to renew the domain names for several Walker gubernatorial campaign websites." (Bice. MJS)

Can anyone imagine what the reaction in the GOP press would be for a sitting Democratic governor's top aide, hired and promoted by this governor, to steal money from veterans and use the money for registering campaign websites, and taking Hawaiian and Caribbean vacations with his domestic partner? (Bice. MJS) This is just what Tim Russell did.

Will any Republican stand up and challenge Tim Russell for what he did? Condemn stealing from veterans?

Here's a fact sheet on  Scott Walker's criminal corruption.

Republicans Launch Attack on John Doe Investigation

Update: A reader asks if all personnel of the Milwaukee County District Attorney's office place Recall Scott Walker signs in their yards, will Republicans and Scott Walker in return stop stonewalling the Wisconsin people and finally answer questions about when Walker knew about the secret networking router in the county executive's office? The GOP may even explain why Walker's top aides embezzled from veterans and their families in Operation Freedom.

Maybe there's a perfectly logical reason for the embezzlement that just hasn't occurred to us. Poor misunderstood Republicans.

In a sign that the John Doe investigation is closing in on Scott Walker, the GOP journal, Media Trackers, has run a story attacking David Budde whom the Party says is the "Chief Investigator in Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm’s office."

The Republican Party organ also has picked up the Charlie Sykes-Journal Communications line that the John Doe investigation is leaking, though Media Trackers refuses to divulge to what leaks it is referring.

Republicans are upset that David Budde's house has a recall Scott Walker sign in the yard, in accordance with every policy and ethical code.

Tellingly, the GOP piece does not point to any policy or ethical code to which Budde would be found to be violating.

So, Brian Sikma's piece is the best the GOP can do? No wonder the Party is so upset.

Walker is in bigger trouble than the Media Trackers flacks know.

Informed sources have said that Scott Walker has also met with federal investigators working with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin in a separate investigation looking into criminal corruption during Walker's tenure as Milwaukee county executive.

Several Walker aides are alleged to have ran a secret campaign for Walker's successful run for governor in 2010 and face misuse of public office criminal charges in the John Doe investigation, among other felonies and misdemeanors

Check out GOP piece and note that not one criminal complaint in the John Doe investigation is challenged on the facts.

The John Doe criminal complaints thus far can be found at:  Walker Investigation.

GOP Panicking on John Doe Criminal Probe

Scott Walker - Ringleader?

Update II: The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel runs its first piece echoing the GOP surrogates' line that the John Doe probe is a witchhunt.

Update: No John Doe prosecutors signed the Recall Scott Walker petition, DA's office says.

In a telling sign that the GOP can read the writing on the John Doe investigation's wall, the GOP propaganda organs led by Media Trackers, WTMJ, and Charlie Sykes have launched their first direct public attack on the Milwaukee County District Attorney's office.

Sykes, in his WTMJ column Monday, says the John Doe investigation known as WalkerGate, "has been dogged by criticism of possible partisan bias, its selective prosecution, and frequent leaks," without specific attribution or even one example.

Sykes then references the rightwing Media Trackers site that broke the news—as it were—that some 19 assistant prosecuting attorneys, and perhaps as many as 70 employees of the Milwaukee DA's office have signed the historic Recall Walker petition.

The McCarthyite dimension aside, Sykes' report does not mention that Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf, who is leading the John Doe probe, or DA John Chisholm have signed the Recall petition, so we can be reasonably certain that they have not signed.

But the fact that the rightwing machine would voluntarily bring up the topic of WalkerGate, following the news that the veterans' funds-embezzling Tim Russell—Walker's former top aide and long-time political confidante—may be feuding with Walker and seeking a plea bargain in the middle of the Recall campaign points to a pre-emptive strike against the criminal probe as a last-resort, political option.

Up to now, Walker has been pushing the line he is "help(ing)" the investigation.

News of the criminal probe, which Walker falsely claimed he is voluntarily helping is not the message the Walker campaign wants leading the news.

Dan Bice reported in early February:

Gov. Scott Walker acknowledged Monday that prosecutors initiated the meeting they will have with him as part of the John Doe investigation about activities that occurred during Walker's tenure as Milwaukee County executive. ... 'Up until now, we've provided written documentation (from the campaign),' Walker said during a briefing with reporters in Waukesha. 'They'd like to talk to us about what they've found and what additional help we can provide.'

Walker has retained two criminal defense attorneys, a defense attorney for the 2010 Walker campaign for governor, and has set up a criminal defense fund.

Scott Walker sure does go to a lot of trouble to help the John Doe investigation that looks to end his political career.

Stay tuned.