Posted on 01/09/2014 4:25:28 PM PST by mandaladon
While Chris Christie’s bridge scandal is dominating the headlines, a lesser-known potential scandal is brewing in Wisconsin. As the Wall Street Journal reported in November, ”a special prosecutor is targeting conservative groups that participated in the battle over Governor Scott Walker’s union reforms.”
The allegation is of improper coordination between the campaign and conservative outside groups, and the real danger may simply be that a denouement isn’t reached until after November (Walker’s re-election). Already, it has been months. As Eric O’Keefe, head of the Wisconsin Club for Growth, told the Journal, he “received his subpoena in early October” and “at least three of the targets had their homes raided at dawn, with law-enforcement officers turning over belongings to seize computers and files.”
Even if no indictments are ever issued, this has the potential to do at least four things: 1). Cast a cloud over Scott Walker as he seeks re-election 2). Impact Walker’s presidential ambitions, 3). Destroy the conservative movement/infrastructure in Wisconsin, by keeping them on the sidelines, filing out paper work, and complying with legal demands, and 4). Use this incident as an argument to rewrite judicial laws concerning disclosure or undermine the Citizens United ruling.
But that’s assuming nothing turns up. When you seize enough computers, you’re bound to come up with something unseemly. And just as the emails served as a smoking gun in the Christ Christie scandal, all it takes is one rogue activist who got sloppy — or acted outside the legal or ethical bounds — to cause Walker a ton of grief.
And make no mistake, Democrats are still gunning for Walker. As James Hohmann just reported,
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
They will be getting desperate especially after 2014. Just wait for as Cruz scandal.
Benghazi beats anything the Dems may have....IMHO. Everytime I dear about these distractions, I yell, BENGHAZI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am sure that there is no liberal group that participated in the battle over Governor Scott Walker's union reforms ,
..But that isn't worthy of investigation ???
Who is watching the investigator ?
Hypocrisy .. is the name of the game conducted by Demorats !
All of this is wishful thinking. Nobody is going to beat Walker this year.
Buddy Barack will sic the politically independent IRS on ya !!
just like the " Tea Party " folks ...
Me thinks that Lois Lerner was just the tip of the iceberg , ..if ya know what I mean ..
The writer of this piece has NO IDEA what Walker has been through in Wisconsin the last several years. This is NOTHING compared to the earlier “John Doe” investigation, which turned up less than the Valerie Plame investigation despite months of empty rumors predicting an imminent indictment of Walker.
So far, the worst they’ve got on Walker is that he left college before graduation to take a good job. They’ve got nothing, ore it would have been shot by now. He is the most vetted governor in the country.
Benghazi, fast and furious, ordering 30,000 troops into Afghanistan for nothing more than political reasons, shutting down parks and national monuments.....
Not if people are not talking about it.
Governor Scott Walker doesn’t have anything in common with that fat-body Christie aside from the fact that they are both Governors.
I could support Walker for national office.
I wouldn’t support Christie for anything other than latrine duty.
Who was the source for the Christie story?
+1
The John Doe investigation has been going on since forever...and they can’t come up with jack. Of course since the libs have shovels, they will continue to dig...and make noise about it.
Meanwhile - nothing on the IRS scandal........
>> Everytime I dear about these distractions, I yell, BENGHAZI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And Issa whines.
Compare: Republican inaction versus Democrat action, which prevails?
Hussein is plagued with scandals, and whenever it comes to light the MSM pulls out all the stops to make sure the story is buried and he's not asked any direct questions. Look at the feeding frenzy going on against Christy. I'm no fan of his, but come on. Every news outlet is beating the drum on this, yet we have Benghazi, the IRS, Fast and Furious....the list goes on. The result is the same, the worst that happens is some underling may get fired. The Boob in the WH gets of scott free.
The reason nothing happens on Benghazi is JOHN BEOHNER.
Why does he block investigation?
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