Watching Scotty Blow, Continued --- Charles P. Pierce of Esqiure

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Take, for example, Representative Joel Kleefisch, who happens to be married to Rebecca Kleefisch, the exceedingly dim lieutenant governor under Walker, and Joel is a first class political 'ho in his own right. Kleefisch is the brains behind a new bill that will save one of Wisconsin's most prominent conservative sugar daddies a fortune in child support. And that actually is the full extent of it.

The Oconomowoc Republican acknowledged Friday that Michael Eisenga, a multi-millionaire business owner, and his attorney helped write the bill, which could pave the way for Eisenga to force the court to reopen his divorce settlement. The lawmaker insisted in an interview that the measure, Assembly Bill 540, would not affect Eisenga's case. "I'm certain the bill would not affect Mr. Eisenga in any way because it's not retroactive," Kleefisch said. "He wanted it retroactive. It's not retroactive." However, the bill would require judges to lower child-support payments if they are 10 percent or more above the amount that would have been ordered using the new requirement. That requirement caps incomes subject to child-support payments at $150,000 a year. Kleefisch's bill also would prohibit judges from taking into account a parent's assets in determining the level of child support.

I mean, honestly, how much of a hack do you have to be to engage your political office to help one of your corporate sponsors be more of a deadbeat? Answer: a pretty fking big one.

Court documents show Eisenga, a Columbus developer, owner of American Lending Solutions and the former mayor of Columbus, has been ordered to pay a minimum $15,000 a month for his three children based on his 2010 income of $1.2 million and assets of $30 million. The bill drafting records, which include emails, letters and handwritten notes, show Eisenga and his attorney, William Smiley of Portage, made numerous suggestions for changes to the bill aimed at helping Eisenga lower his child-support payments...Emails between Eisenga, Smiley, Kleefisch and Kleefisch's aides show the divorced father sought specific language to help his case. Among the documents is a Sept. 5 letter in which Smiley tells Eisenga to request specific modifications to "the portion (of the bill) that would require the court to modify your child support order based solely on the passage of this bill."

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more...

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/scott-walker-special-interest-grifting-

[Half-Century Man]

1. Need to get ahold of my Representative

And suggest modifying the wording of the cap to $150,000.00 per year per child. Lets bump shitty dad's payments from $180,000.00 a year to $450,000.00 per year.
Adjust the wording to require raising or lowering payments to the new cap


A law to benefit a single person is transformed into a law which benefits 3 children.

[ewagner]

2. They aren't even pretending anymore...

Charles has a focus on Wisconsin, and rightly so.....Lord Acton once famously said that "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts, absolutely." With total control of the legislature and the Governor's office, corruption was a given, an absolute.