Wisconsin: Will Scott Walker's Love Affair With Realtors Be Part Of The "John Doe" Investigation?
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2012020714/will-walkers-love-affair-realtors-come-back-haunt-him
More dirt every day. Apparently Walker is the "John Doe" in the John Doe Investigation. This guy's going down, down, down.
The
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is reporting that John Doe investigators are looking for signs of real estate bid-rigging in the county government during the time Walker was County Executive. The county owns hundreds of acres of land it sells to developers. It deals with thousands of leases and millions of dollars in state and federal housing funds. It does a lot of business with realtors.
The media was alerted to this new line of investigation when Andrew Jensen Jr., "Wisconsin's Realtor of the Year" for 2010 was thrown in jail for a day last December by the Milwaukee prosecutor for failing to cooperate with the secret investigation. Jensen is a commercial real estate broker with the Boerke Company, a Walker campaign contributor, and past chairman of the Commercial Association of Realtors-Wisconsin (CARW). Walker has acknowledged knowing Jensen slightly.
According to the Journal Sentinel, Jensen was involved in an controversial effort to move the county’s Department of Aging to a different, private location, after a rushed five hour bid. The DA appears to be squeezing Jensen for information. He may be seeking information the Department of Aging incident, other real estate deals or on a raft of characters in Walker’s "inner circle" who had real estate business with the county.
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In total, real estate interests have given more than $480,000 to Walker since 2009 making them one of the governor's top supporting special interest groups. CARW funnels campaign contributions through a conduit to the Realtor's Political Action Committee (RPAC). RPAC maxed out on direct contributions, contributing $43,125 to Walker's gubernatorial campaign. Realtors have given $15,000 so far to his recall effort and provided him with an early endorsement, without consulting their full membership. In return, the Walker administration has moved on many pieces of legislation supported by the realtors over the past year. On the list: private health savings accounts, the "landlord preemption bill," a controversial proposal largely benefiting landlords at the expense of tenants, and stricter regulations on wind turbines.
But it is Walker's earlier relationship with realtors that is raising questions now. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
suspects bid rigging, the Milwaukee
Shepherd Express suspects "pay to play" politics -- campaign contributions for favorable treatment.
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Walker is going DOWN. 
