The Journal presents this as significant because Walker has been saying that he was never a target of the investigation. Walker campaign spokeswoman AshLee Strong responded:
“The information released today comes from a case that has been closed for more than two years,” Strong said. “It is another example of the politics involved in this process as people who could not prove things in a court of law are attempting to win in the court of public opinion.”This point seems almost stronger when/if we know that Walker was a target. The investigation was, apparently, extremely aggressive, and if they were out to get Walker and smelled enough blood that they believed he'd committed a felony, then the complete failure to pin anything on him is quite an endorsement. I thought we all commit 3 felonies a day — or... that's the meme that expresses how easy it is to find a law on the books that they can pin on you if they want to get you badly enough. How did Walker slip free of the grip of prosecutors who wanted to get him?
Back to the Wisconsin State Journal article:
Prosecutors... were looking into signs of misconduct and bid-rigging regarding competition to house the Department of Aging in private office space. [John] Hiller, a real estate broker who at the time was Walker’s longtime campaign treasurer, was quietly working for one of three bidders seeking to provide office space and buy an aging building known as City Campus owned by Milwaukee County.Interesting... the things that happen or may be happening in personal email. Personal email is taking the place of phone conversation in our lives, and the kind of communication that once evanesced remain to haunt us... unless we're good at deleting our email.
[John Doe investigator Robert] Stelter argued in the warrant request that Walker committed a felony when in June of 2010 he used a personal email account to ask Hiller for a letter that rejected Department of Transportation and Public Works director Jack Takarian’s request for a six-month extension for the county’s Department on Aging office lease in the Reuss Federal Plaza in Milwaukee. That rejection set up the need for a later deal “against the interests of Milwaukee County,” the warrant said. Hiller then forwarded the email to Jensen, according to the search warrant request, who then with Hiller wrote the letter rejecting the extension.
Isn't it strange that Scott Walker faced such intense scrutiny over email about the rejection of a lease extension for county office space? Compare that to the subject matter of the lost emails of Lois Lerner and Hillary Clinton!
UPDATE: "Gov. Scott Walker says he didn't know he was a target of the now-closed John Doe probe until this week, when newly released court documents showed he was under investigation for misconduct in office."
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"... unless we're good at deleting our email."
Or formatting our private server.
You don't understand. Walker is a REPUBLICAN !
"People in Wisconsin and across the country deserve answers from Governor Walker on why law enforcement officials had probable cause to believe he committed felonies,” Baldauff said.
This is the pathetic state of the left. Democrats spend millions of dollars and thousands of of manhours to try to pin something...ANYTHING...on Walker and can't come up with a single thing. And Waalker has to explain why they tried.
bid riggin...iz kool baby.
The concept of criminalizing the rejection of a lease extension is bizarre and self parodying. It would be rich material for Stewart or Colbert if such a charge were brought against a Democrat. If, God forbid, such a charge were brought against a black politician they would be linking arms on the Selma bridge. But Walker is a Republican with a bald spot and the very personification of evil. Always remember that they got Al Capone on a tax dodge.
" "The nature of the evidence is irrelevant; it's the seriousness of the charge that matters."
Curious George said...
"People in Wisconsin and across the country deserve answers from Governor Walker on why law enforcement officials had probable cause to believe he committed felonies,” Baldauff said.
Governor Walker. When did you stop beating your wife?
So transparently biased only the usual suspects would believe it.
machine said...
bid riggin...iz kool baby.
You really are as dumb as you look.
"bid riggin...iz kool baby."
It's a shame the Democrat prosecutors missed your evidence. I'm sure things would have turned out differently if you had been there to help.
:)
There needs to be a culling of the Democratic herd in WI.
So they were looking to buy an aging building to house the Department of Aging...
Sounds appropriate.
"Compare that to the subject matter of the lost emails of Lois Lerner and Hillary Clinton!"
Not to quibble, but Lerner's and Clinton's emails weren't lost. They were destroyed.
Lerner's. And Clinton's email were not just destroyed, as opposed to lost, they were also government property at the time they were destroyed. And Clinton's contained classified and secret information.
His actions were examined and he wasn't charged. End. Of. Conversation.
"His actions were examined and he wasn't charged. End. Of. Conversation."
Not in WI. We are going to have to deal with this crap for years.
Dems are crazy and there is no getting around it.
Mr. Morell was on TV a couple of weeks back stating that he was sure all competent intelligence agencies around the world had copies of Ms. Clinton's e-mails.
Whatever you think of them, I am sure Mr. Morell counts NSA, CIA, FBI, etc. among those "competent intelligence agencies."
I have also seen articles saying some more copies of Lois Lerner's e-mails have been found to exist after all, when somebody thought to ask the IT guy in charge of the back-up tapes in the basement. But then there has been nothing more about what was on those tapes.
"But then there has been nothing more about what was on those tapes."
They are in the possession of the IRS who will not release them.
"Not to quibble, but Lerner's and Clinton's emails weren't lost. They were destroyed."
You're not quibbling with me. You're missing my sarcasm.
Prosecutors also believe Walker committed a felony when he tied his shoes wrong in kindergarten. And once again, when he told a political side "Righty loosy, lefty tighty." That investigation is still ongoing.
If Obama doesn't indict HRC, my fondest hope is that all of her emails are leaked after she gets the nomination. It would finish her. She can only get 47% of the vote.
Hillary Clinton must be defeated.
Carthage must be destroyed.
"How did Walker slip free of the grip of prosecutors who wanted to get him?"
When this all started, the naughty K-9s didn't know they would catch the all-powerful car. They were chasing something shiny and loud and evil, that's all they knew.
The little, rascally doggies thought they could, with their charisma (cf. Shirley Abramhamson) catch the car and make it do Dog Bidding.
Reality, via voter support and potentially Koch brothers All-knowing All-powerful bounty, made catching the car everything but advisable, even when the hapless little warm wimpy wifey is bitching in the background about those poor children, those poor, poor children.
The problem is Walker is kinda a piece of crap run-of-the-mill career politician who supports ethanol, supports the debt rising and saying as POTUS there isn't a damn thing he can do about it anyway (it's the Congress' job to spend money!), someone who will "fix" Obamacare with his buddies in Congress like Chuck Schumer, codswallops compared to Tommy Thompson, listens to jerks about legal immigration and who knows about illegal immigration even as it hurts the most-vulnerable members of WI society, and allows highly-despicable ruiners like Brad Dayspring to spread his message far and wide and deep.
"'People in Wisconsin and across the country deserve answers from Governor Walker on why law enforcement officials had probable cause to believe he committed felonies,' Baldauff said."
-- Judging by the dismissal of the judge in the John Doe investigations, it sounds like the cause wasn't probable at all.
I wonder what other uses these resources could have been put to instead of a political attack. This is part of the reason a lot of states/counties/etc. need more money. We waste it on frivolous things.
I asked this on another thread, but to collect my thoughts here: Did Walker's team actually KNOW that they were a target? This may be news to them as well. Remember: The John Doe investigations were handled clumsily, sloppily and with complete disregard to legal requirements/expectations. It is entirely possible that the corrupt incompetence left them unaware they were actually a target.
Ann, you need to go all in on the sarcasm. E.g.
It's the Palin-style smear all over again. Deeply examine what someone does as a local government official, because small-time political offices are surely places where rigorous self-examination and slavish devotion to the rules occurs. It's not like your working with friends from high school and next-door neighbors who will put friendships in front of nitpicky rules.
Why, just look at the array of ethically pure but friendless assh*les we have running for President. I'm sorry, what's that? You all don't like strongly ethical people whose beliefs of what is right and wrong are different than yours? You all don't understand why your preferred candidate is being held to the same high standards you insist their preferred candidate be held to?
Well, don't worry your pretty little head about it. Just sit back with your popcorn and watch the laugh/gaffe festival that will be Sanders v. Trump in 2016.
A criminal investigation for rejection of a lease? Sweet Jeebus!
Let me speculate as to how dealings with a lease extension might be criminal? Did he take a bribe to lease alternate space at a higher price? Then investigate the danged bribe!
Whoever "thought" this lulu up must have been smoking funny tobacco.
If I were doing the "right thing" I'd start with a wholesale pillage and sacking of the prosecuting attorneys office that was involved in the John Doe investigation.
This is what happens if some Scientific Progressives get positions in a prosecutor's office.
The pathetic desperation of Wisconsin Dems is on display once again. The audio recording released yesterday and this little bit of nothing today, both released, I am sure, to try to put Walker on the defensive prior to tonight's debate performance. As if. These morons apparently never have had it occur to them that he might have prepared for this in any way and will have a response, just as he has every single time before. If it even comes up.
They keep acting like they are the more able political operators, rather than Walker and his people. Yet, they are the ones who keep getting their asses kicked and only elevating Walker further. Anybody with a modicum of self-reflection might examine these results and try a different tack, but not these Wisconsin Democrat buffoons.
"You're not quibbling with me. You're missing my sarcasm."
You didn't raise your left hand.
This is what happens when law is used as a weapon. It needs to stop.
Prosecutors got carried away. Why not? If your a Democrat Prosecutor in Obama's America, you just get carried away, you forget what it is you swore to do. You're starting a John Doe probe of a Republican governor, some people think its a genius idea....
I remember when the Wisconsin State Journal was actually a pretty good newspaper. But now I guess their business model in this age of declining subscriptions is to cater to the fantasies of the batwing crazy left.
The process is the punishment. There's no reason to have an actual crime when you can do whatever you want under the pretext of an "investigation". A real, specific criminal allegation is a serious disadvantage to this sort of fascist pseudo-prosecutor, since you might inadvertently provide someone with a reason to end the "investigation".
The outrage over this issue, while at peace with Clinton/Lerner is akin to straining on a gnat but swallowing a camel.
unless we're good at deleting our email.
Which you can't do unless you control the server and its backups.
Felony? Walker is an Eagle Scout!What about Hillary? What about Los Lerner?
The theory seems to be that he rejected the lease extension so the property deal could go to someone else, someone connected to Walker/his friends, and that it would cost the state more money.
Of course, something like Solyndra, where the gov just GIVES money/loans to a company that happens to include buddies of the Admin...well, nothing wrong with that, I guess.
Who, whom.
"Felony? Walker is an Eagle Scout!What about Hillary? What about Los Lerner?"
I didn't know Walker was an Eagle Scout. Impressive. Thanks, garage!
Walker is the most feared republican in America.
Does anyone else have the impression that the Journal-Sentinel has gone into full jihad mode against Walker?
Why, not only was the the target of the Doe, he has a ... a high interest credit card!!
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/scott-walker-carrying-high-interest-credit-card-debt-b99550287z1-320613532.html
Felony? Walker is an Eagle Scout!What about Hillary? What about Los Lerner?
Walker was investigated and, lo and behold, nothing was found.
Funny how the more one examines Hillary or Lois, the dirtier they look.
"he has a ... a high interest credit card!!" No - that is important. Disqualifying. That's evidence that he's financially irresponsible, which means that if he were in charge of a major government entity, he would probably wreck its budget, like so many other politicians!
Never mind.
I have several high interest credit accounts, but, but, but if I pay them off within the promotional period I pay zero interest. I never turn down free money.
Anyone think of that possibility?
"Felony? Walker is an Eagle Scout!What about Hillary? What about Los Lerner?"
So, in your mind (and I use the term loosely), garage, a governor discussing rejecting a lease extension in a private email is of similar import to the security of this nation as the US Secretary of State, in contravention of law and public policy, commingling every freaking one of her personal emails for 4 years with every freaking one of her official communications, including those with sensitive and classified data, on a private server only she controlled in her own home. Then she says she personally reviewed all 60,000 emails and we are expected to trust her when she says she only deleted the personal ones. (Not to mention that a strong minority of those deleted may show incriminating evidence regarding corruption and cronyism with regards to their "non-profit" foundation.
Typical leftist false moral equivalence.
It's not the crime that gets one, it's the personal email account.
""Is" an Eagle Scout. Once earned, he keeps the title forever."
Yes. I regret I only made it to Life, but realistically I was never going to get Lifesaving merit badge so I gave it up. Did make life-long friends in Scouts, however.
I wonder if Trump will mention all the criminal investigations into Walker tonight's debate. Zing!
MSM is simply Democrat oppo research. Nothing more, nothing less.
"I wonder if Trump will mention all the criminal investigations into Walker tonight's debate. Zing!"
Zing? He'll mention it only if 1) he wants to give Walker a boost, or 2) he's stupid. Being the target of a lawless democrat DA is not disqualifying; it's a badge of honor.
"I wonder if Trump will mention all the criminal investigations into Walker tonight's debate. Zing!" I would love that. The other candidates would have a chance to call Trump despicable and maybe get rid of some of his stupid support.
Rubio: "I think that's contemptible, to repeat that kind of ridiculous slander!"
Walker: "Hey - I'm voting for him!"
Has anyone heard from Tim Russell? He, the pilferer of money from the widows of veterans. Now, if Chisholm were a Republican we would have never learned about that. Only a fascist would investigate that.
Only a lawless Democrat would investigate someone who broke the law.
Garage, which part of "if there were anything at all Chisholm could have charged him with, he would have" do you not understand?
Who is Tim Russell?
"Who is Tim Russell?"
What I don't understand is why you think this is some kind of gotcha question.
"Who is Tim Russell?" Someone who isn't Scott Walker?
Garage- thanks for bringing up Ttump. I'm hoping someone asks him when he's going to release an audited GAAP balance sheet because his failure to do suggests that his claims to great wealth are fabricated.
garage mahal said...
"Only a lawless Democrat would investigate someone who broke the law."
Hillary Clinton, John Corzine, John Edwards, Barrack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid were unavailable to comment.
The probe started with Walker's Deputy Chief if Staff stole money from a fund set up for orphaned widows. This is what conservatives call fascism.
"The probe started with Walker's Deputy Chief if Staff stole money from a fund set up for orphaned widows."
Everybody knows, child (except I'm not sure what an "orphaned widow" is).
"garage mahal said...
Has anyone heard from Tim Russell? He, the pilferer of money from the widows of veterans. Now, if Chisholm were a Republican we would have never learned about that. Only a fascist would investigate that."
Uh, that investigation was prompted by Walker's office dumbass.
Fail.
Prosecutors said Walker stonewalled them. That's why the probe was expanded. Not that it matters to Walker supporters.
"Prosecutors said Walker stonewalled them. That's why the probe was expanded. Not that it matters to Walker supporters."
It "doesn't matter" because the assertion is ridiculous. They opened John Doe 2 because Walker, who "started" John Doe 1 by referring the issue to the DA, wasn't cooperative? Just because somebody says something, garage, doesn't mean it's true.
Yes, garage, you lose, because you have already lost, but you keep losing, so you're only losing more. You can make it worse for others but you can't make it any better for yourself. I have as much right to say that you f*** your daughter as you have to say that Walker did anything wrong.
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