Jobs agency Gov. Scott Walker led dogged by allegations of shoddy lending, political influence

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Source: AP




July 21, 2015 | 3:40 p.m. EDT


By JEFF HORWITZ, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Gov. Scott Walker begins his presidential campaign, he is confronting a stream of embarrassing revelations from a jobs agency once billed as the centerpiece of his plan to bring 250,000 jobs to Wisconsin.

Walker created the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation in response to what he described as an economic emergency when he took office in 2011. As the agency's chairman, Walker appointed its top officials and six members of its 15-person board.

Among its early awards: $1.2 million in grants and loans for a company that said it could turn dirty plastic forks and ketchup-stained napkins into jobs. The company, Green Box NA Green Bay LLC, said its world-changing technology would produce recycled products, electricity and even diesel from fast-food waste and promised to employ 116 people.

But Walker's agency appears not to have looked adequately into Green Box. Company founder Ron Van Den Heuvel owed millions of dollars in legal judgments to banks, business partners, state tax officials and even a jeweler. Patents it said it owned are listed as belonging to other entities, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office........

Read more: http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2015/07/21/more-trouble-than-jobs-at-economic-agency-walker-championed

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I sure am glad that the national media is finally bringing #WEDC to light.






FILE - In this July 12, 2015, file photo, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker addresses employees and members of the media at Valveworks USA prior to signing the state's 2015-2017 budget on the production floor of the Waukesha, Wis., company. Walker is facing potentially embarrassing revelations from an agency once billed as the centerpiece of his plan as Wisconsin’s governor to bring 250,000 jobs to the state. Walker led the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation until stepping down earlier this month after allegations about shoddy lending and favoritism at the agency. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

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1. Shoddy Lending and Political Influence are departments in his Kitchen Cabinet. nt

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2. Was it the kitchen Cabinet that caused his bald spot??

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

6. That's the spot where the Koch bros. place the electrodes.

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7. Love you comment --yet -->Scott Walker says cabinet created his bald spot

ICYMI
Walker has male pattern baldness--simple as that-yet the idiot brought up this stupid story



On the Capitol: Scott Walker says cabinet created his bald spot

October 18, 2014 5:45 am • By Mary Spicuzza | Wisconsin State Journal, Matthew DeFour


He brought it up.

As Gov. Scott Walker was wrapping up his visit Monday with the State Journal editorial board, he joked with cartoonist Phil Hands that Hands draws his ears too big — but said the cartoonist’s portrayal of his bald spot was accurate.

The governor continued.

The bald spot, he said, was the result of a repair incident in the kitchen when he banged his head on an open kitchen cabinet door while making repairs requested by his wife, Tonette.

She kept telling him to go to the doctor to get the scar on his head looked at, he said. When he finally did, the doctor said his hair would never grow back in that spot, the governor explained.

Tonette still points to the bald spot as a reminder that he should always listen to his wife, he said.
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Walker's Blame Game--He Even Blames A Kitchen Cabinet For His Bald Spot

http://www.newberlinnow.com/blogs/communityblogs/280010792.html



Posted by Linda Richter on Oct. 21, 2014



Scott Walker recently said his bald spot resulted from banging his head on an open cabinet door while making repairs that had been requested by his wife!

See Wisconsin State Journal report On the Capitol: Scott Walker Says Cabinet Created His Bald Spot.

And Monologues of Dissent's blog post The Governor's Baldspot: Has The Blame Game Finally Gone Too Far? summed it up this way:

"Scott Walker has been playing the blame game forever - most notably in blaming former governor Jim Doyle and/or President Obama for everything that happened, ever, either before, during, or after he took office.
But his latest, most bizarre claim, might be the tipping point for Wisconsinites who've had enough of his failure to take responsibility for his administration's many failures.

And it's all about The Baldspot™................

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3. These quasi-privatized "Jobs Agencies" are basically a legalized bribery channel, favored by GOP...

governors. John Kasich and "JobsOhio" is another example of this type of boondogle. Everybody, including the freaking Republican state auditor have been calling for investigations, to no avail.

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5. yes, Walker and Kalish have a lot in common!--but Kalish

pretends he is a moderate (which he is not), while Walker does not even pretend .

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4. I can't stand Scott Wanker.

creepy sociopathic kochsucker

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