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Wisconsin Democrats seek probe of Gov. Walker over loan
Times-Standard ^ | 5-18-2015 | Todd Richmond, AP

Posted on 05/18/2015 1:13:50 PM PDT by Citizen Zed

Edited on 05/18/2015 1:39:06 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Wisconsin Democratic lawmakers called on federal investigators Monday to launch a probe into Republican Gov. Scott Walker's job creation agency after a newspaper reported the organization made a questionable loan to one of Walker's top donors five years ago.

Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca and Sen. Julie Lassa, who both sit on the Wisconsin Economic Development Association's board, told reporters at a news conference that they are outraged by the revelations in the Wisconsin State Journal's story. The report raises serious questions about whether the agency and Walker's administration did an improper political favor for the donor, they said.


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Pay no attention to the Clintons.
1 posted on 05/18/2015 1:13:50 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

Why can’t our side harass people until the day they die like this?


2 posted on 05/18/2015 1:14:53 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Citizen Zed
Someone loosely associated with Walker may have done something that if true would amount to 0.01% of what the Clintons are doing routinely, and that warrants a probe?

3 posted on 05/18/2015 1:19:58 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Steely Tom
Why can’t our side harass people until the day they die like this?

Because some on "our side" still think you have to play by the rules. They ain't figured out that in a fight to the death, there are no "rules."

I cite as an example our forefathers, who, after getting shot to pieces at Concord Bridge, resorted to ambushing the Redcoats from behind trees and stone walls. The Redcoats complained that wasn't how wars were to be fought, as they counted their dead.

4 posted on 05/18/2015 1:20:17 PM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: Steely Tom

“Why can’t our side harass people until the day they die like this?”

We don’t have the big soapbox of the MSM.

I’m not making excuses but it’s true.


5 posted on 05/18/2015 1:23:39 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: jocon307
We don’t have the big soapbox of the MSM.

That, and "our side" has absolutely no clue how to wage political war. No clue whatsoever. Meanwhile, the leftists will die for their cause, even when they are wrong. "Our side" would rather capitulate.

6 posted on 05/18/2015 1:34:18 PM PDT by dware (Yeah, so? What are you going to do about it?)
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To: Citizen Zed

What a bunch of losers.

7 posted on 05/18/2015 1:38:15 PM PDT by Fido969
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To: Citizen Zed
Pay no attention to the Clintons.

Pay no attention to Obama and his Green Energy Slush Fund Machine.

What is a few billion dollars of federal tax payer money compared to $500,000 of state tax dollars.

Obama gave $535 million to Solyndra who’s major investor was a huge Obama donor.

The government is expected to recover just $24 million of the $527 million that taxpayers lent the company. Republicans have accused the administration of favoring Solyndra because its largest investors were funds linked to Oklahoma billionaire George Kaiser, an Obama donor.

8 posted on 05/18/2015 1:41:08 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Maybe he should setup a Slush Fund Foundation.
RATS seem ok with that.


9 posted on 05/18/2015 1:44:18 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: dware

Sometimes the other side does things which are so despicable I wouldn’t want our side to do them.

Like Harry “one eye” Reid going on the Senate floor and telling slanderous lies about Romney.

However, that really was an extreme case. If we get and R in there next year I want him or her to really sic the Justice Department on all those bums in the IRS.

I’ll die happy if I know Lois Lerner went to prison for her many heinous crimes.

So I agree, our side should play ball A LOT harder than they do.


10 posted on 05/18/2015 1:46:40 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Steely Tom

Why can’t our side harass people until the day they die like this?

The only way to stop it is to do exactly that.


11 posted on 05/18/2015 1:50:04 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job...)
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To: jocon307

The first mistake the right makes is playing defense. They allow the left to frame the argument, and then spend their time responding. That’s a losing proposition from the word “GO”. The 2nd mistake is that the right uses cold hard facts and statistics, every time. The left, OTOH, uses emotion (”It’s for the children”) and does so in such an effective and efficient manner that, by the time they have framed the debate using emotion, the right is pretty much powerless and all they can do is respond (which usually only makes it worse). These are just 2 instances of the right’s inability to wage any effective political war.


12 posted on 05/18/2015 1:55:01 PM PDT by dware (Yeah, so? What are you going to do about it?)
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To: Steely Tom
Yeah, lets bring up Terry McAuliffe's loan to the Clintons to by their house/server farm in Chappaqua!

-PJ

13 posted on 05/18/2015 2:12:21 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Citizen Zed
Birds of a feather.

Meet Rosemary Lehmberg, the District Attorney at the Center of the Rick Perry Indictment

14 posted on 05/18/2015 2:25:58 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Citizen Zed

Do note that Walker wasn’t even governor yet five years ago. That tells me that they are running out of ammo, and this is all they have left. They want to start John Doe #3, somehow, some way. If not, at least get another phony story out there.


15 posted on 05/18/2015 3:10:26 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Fido969

Not a flattering picture. She was young once, with dreams and hopes!

Now she is part of the weird withered sisterhood of Democrat activists and politicians, who give themselves meaning by destroying the happiness and security of good men and women.

If it were really about corruption all she would have to do would be to have a look in the factory size hog-shed that houses her party and sample the run off from their holding pond!


16 posted on 05/18/2015 6:03:59 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Citizen Zed

-——made a questionable loan to one of Walker’s top donors five years ago.——

Wow... That Walker guy is pretty smart...

So he knew what each donor to his campaign had received in loans before he was governor...

Talk about grasping at straws....


17 posted on 05/18/2015 6:11:21 PM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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