Scott Walker signs bill protecting him from corruption investigation

[nate]

Four of his aides have been put in jail because they got busted for corruption and now he signed a bill preventing that type of investigation.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/24/us/wisconsin-governor-signs-bill-limiting-political-corruption-inquiries.html?_r=0

 

Yep, my governor is as corrupt as they come.

[mtangelsfan]

Shady shit nate.

[nate]

Scary thing is I think probably 95% of our politicians would do the same thing.  Including the ones running for president.

[mtangelsfan]

Oh hell yeah.

[red321]

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a39165/scott-walker-wisconsin-corruption/

 

This law is part of a general corruption-enhancing effort that has its roots in a decision by the state's Supreme Court last July that not only ended an investigation into Walker's 2012 re-election campaign, but also declared the kind of coordination between campaigns and "outside" groups to be legal, and then ordered all the evidence gathered in the investigation to be destroyed. At least two of the justices ruling on this case had been the beneficiaries in their own campaigns from the same "independent" groups that were the subject of the case in the first place. They refused to recuse themselves. In addition to the law killing off the John Doe process, Walker's pet legislature also has proposed new laws that would turn the state's independent Government Accountability Board from a nonpartisan body through which independent retired judges evaluate the performance of government officials to a board whose members are appointed by the governor, and one that would make the rubble bounce on what's left of the state's campaign-finance laws.

[Blarg]

Diplomatic immunity or a better term impunity. Maybe, Nate, your state will demand a recall of the law through a public outrage and petition. Also they should petition a demand for a recall election of what they have to call a corrupt Governor and state senate that would have the audacity to give themselves protection from corruption probes.

 

Brian was laughed at when he was proclaiming a revolution was near but now it seems Wisconsin needs to lead the charge and start purging their own legislature and start over, even rewriting their own constitution if necessary. Otherwise you have lost self governance, kind of like here in California.

[halomatt]

That's ****ed up.

[Adam]

lol

[Adam]

Did he pull an Obama and sign it on Sunday during a Gay Pride celebration?

[TobiasFunke]

He was born to be president with moves like this

[Tank]

wow, that takes a pretty big pair of brass ones to push through legislation like that.

[Spirit]

I know there isn't, but there needs to be conflict of interest laws in place for stuff like this.  At all levels of government. 

[Hollyw00d]

Good stuff

[Crampknees]

Republicans said the change in the law was required to curb what they called unnecessarily long and intrusive investigations that amounted to political witch hunts.

 

Lol

[TobiasFunke]

^LOLOL

[mtangelsfan]

Republicans said the change in the law was required to curb what they called unnecessarily long and intrusive investigations that amounted to political witch hunts.

 

Lol

 

Ha!  Politicians are so self absorbed they cannot see their continual hypocrisy.

[nate]

Yeah those unnecessary long and intrusive investigations that sent four people to jail already.

 

Walker takes millions from the Kochs and Menard.

[Hollyw00d]

The name's ghazi.

 

 

 

Ben, ghazi.

[Make Angels Great Again]

Scott Walker just looks like a scummy, dirtbag polictician. I don't know why, but he just comes off that way to me, I noticed it in the debates.

[Crampknees]

Too bad he gave up his run for President because there is another debate and Trump would have assuredly vilified him for this, right?  Now Trump just gets to take credit for him dropping out of the race.