Scott Walker Spending Tax Dollars Lavishly on Himself While Squeezing Everyone Else

[hue]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/11/1313330/-Scott-Walker-Spending-Lavishly-on-Himself-While-Squeezing-Everyone-Else#

We now know how much Scott Walkers security detail is costing "the hardworking taxpayers of Wisconsin" (he always uses that phrase to cut spending, so it's a bit of Scottenfreuden for me to use it here).

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R-It's Never My Fault) has brought austerity to the state, Mississippi sink-to-the-bottom policies, bitter political divisiveness, extremism, anti-worker, anti-woman, crush the poor and disabled policies to Wisconsin. He granted a stingy 1% wage increase to state employees (denied to workers who have still managed to keep their unions) while sucking out 18% of their already low wages. "We're broke", he claimed repeatedly when he rolled out his budgets.

While he was doing that, however, he managed to implant his cronies not just in appointed positions, but embedded many in Civil Service positions with enormous salary increases over their predecessors. He recently hired another of his former Milwaukee County staffers, Cynthia Archer (who was involved in the original John Doe Probe, but kept her mouth shut), to a job she didn't apply for (overlooking the ones who had applied for the job), never interviewed for, with a salary of $113,000 per year (131% higher than the person she replaced).

And today we find out that her salary exceeds the top pay for that position.

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There are some days I can barely cope with the EVIL ETHER that encompasses Wisconsin & some days when I feel I can't! When will this end??

It's been a pattern for Walker hiring cronies into big positions along with big, big, big raises. Then again, those big salaries are buying a whole lot of loyalty ... and silence.

Then there was the major remodeling that Tonette Walker did to the Governors Mansion, including a full kitchen remodeling during the "We're Broke" time in 2011 and 2012. No problemo finding the bucks for that either.

[Half-Century Man]

1. Once in a conversation I had early in his governorship

I described him as thinking he has been elected King of Wisconsin (when he was reported to have offhandedly threatened the protesters with the national guard).

Nice to know I was right so early in Koch-roach infestation.

[Blue Owl]

2. Self-serving little prick

I hope he crashes and burns hard...

[HooptieWagon]

3. I spent a summer in WI about 25 years ago.

Found the residents there as nice as can be. How the fuck did Walker get elected? Did his opponant run a real crappy campaign?

[MillennialDem]

9. Walker rode the red tide in 2010 and yes weak opponent. In the recall, Walker was allowed to

raise unlimited money from private donors (weird quirk in recall law).

[unionthug777]

4. wanker..

a putrid little puddle of oily anal discharge.

[blkmusclmachine]

5. Savvy!

[littlemissmartypants]

6. McCrory renovated the mansion bathroom in Raleigh.

But refused Medicaid expansion and delayed snap payments while shuttering all the clinics for women. They are all following the 40 yr old ALEC playbook.

Asses one and all.

[hue]

7. "Asses one and all. " You are too kind!

[Cosmocat]

10. I hate it, hate it, hate it

we LONG have reached the point, because it happens with EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE ASSHOLES, who scream empty coffers and put the screw to the average Joe, that they ALWAYS engage in self indulgence like this.

This shit is obvious, it happens EVERY TIME, and people should be attuned to it.

But, time after time after time, these assholes get elected and keep their jobs ...

[sakabatou]

8. How is this legal?