Columnist Daniel Bice answers questions on recall election & *John Doe* investigation @2:00pm (C)

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Chat at 2 p.m. central Wednesday
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/157510155.html

The John Doe investigation has been the elephant in the room of the recall election ever since it was launched. Democratic candidate Tom Barrett has been hammering at it over the past two weeks, and he appears to be getting some people to notice the possibility that Walker could win the recall and end up indicted anyway. The most significant turn of events came last week, on May 31, just as Walker and Barrett were preparing to debate that night, when Daniel Bice, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter who’s been an absolute bulldog on this investigation, published a damaging piece in which Bice said that, contrary to Walker’s repeated insistence that he had called for the John Doe investigation himself, the investigators on the case opened the investigation themselves after two years of stonewalling by Walker and his administration. Bice’s story was based on a document filed with the court in the Russell case.

http://bloggingblue.com/2012/06/04/yes-scott-walker-stonewalled-according-to-indicted-walker-crony-tim-russell/





Document suggests Walker stalled inquiry

Milwaukee County prosecutors opened the secret John Doe criminal investigation more than two years ago after being stonewalled by Gov. Scott Walker's office when he was county executive, according to a newly released record.

The document appears to cast doubt on some of Walker's claims about his role in launching and cooperating with the investigation.

On May 5, 2010, Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf filed a petition with court officials asking if his office could initiate a secret investigation into what happened with $11,000 in donations intended for Operation Freedom, an annual event honoring veterans.

By making it a secret John Doe investigation, Landgraf wrote that prosecutors might get better cooperation from Walker's office, which had been "unwilling or unable" to turn over records and information needed in the investigation. He said he would need to subpoena county records and officials.
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/walkers-office-stonewalled-da-inquiry-record-shows-t65kbql-156065645.html

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1. Bice's work produced the "Walker is Stonewalling" Sound bite

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2. kick

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3. This thread apparently is not as sexy as all the Recall Election threads that imply the

Recall Election on a crooked Governor, was on the up and up.

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5. It was on the up and up, sometimes one need let passion subside and listen to others more

The fact that so many people I talked to just didn't like the whole recall concept verses his character issues I myself ignored. That was a mistake.

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4. Only thing of substance I could glean on John Doe was in reference to David Shuster

Q: Aaron - How does the David Schuster story, and last weeks Journal story with the homes of Villa and Brett Davis being raided tie into the John Doe investigation.


A: Daniel Bice - If Shuster's turns out to be right, I wish I had written it. Right now, I don't know if it is true. We'll see.

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6. ttt