-—An audit of the WEDC is a police state investigation?
You were unclear and seemed to be discussing the John Doe. You are apparently unaware of late night police raids of conservatives as part of the John Doe.
-—That money was supposed to create jobs but didn’t and that doesn’t bother you?
The allegations about jobs being exported was DEBUNKED. We Wisconsin conservatives recognize WEDC is not working but Walker should get some credit for attempting an innovative approach to a continually failing area in WI government. You should have seen the crap that his predecessor did.
-—Republicans acknowledged the need for WEDC reform but defended the agency’s tools that have in fact played a pivotal role in bringing some jobs and companies to Wisconsin.
Republicans also pointed out that things were not so great under former Gov. Jim Doyle’s Department of Commerce, the precursor to WEDC. Transparency issues abounded there as well, especially under former Secretary Mary Burke. -—
http://www.maciverinstitute.com/2015/05/joint-finance-approves-changes-to-wedc-dhs-budgets/
-—Wisconsin is Dead Last in job creation in the Midwest and lagging behind the rest of the country.
-—Wisconsin has a 4.4 percent unemployment rate and has higher employment then the country’s average.
Additionally, the state’s labor force participation rate of 68 percent outpaced the national rate of 62.8 percent.——
https://dwd.wisconsin.gov/dwd/newsreleases/2015/unemployment/150521_april_state.pdf
A little tough to show dramatic job creation when you are at nearly FULL EMPLOYMENT. If you google Wisconsin and jobs try to avoid just reviewing drooling lefty sites.
-—the Walker investigation is not over. If the feds get in, he will no longer have the protection of a state prosecutor who supported his campaign.
Again, you show complete ignorance of this issue. The John Doe has already been been stopped in Federal Court with PREJUDICE to the legal theory underlying it. It is currently before the WI Supreme Court where it is expected to be deemed an unlawful prosecution of Free Speech. The lead witch hunter is the Milwaukee Cty DA who hired someone who SAYS he is a Republican (but no records can be found to substiate that) to be the ‘lead prosecutor’ and there is NO evidence the alleged Republican supported Walker’s campaign.
BTW here’s that lead prosecutor’s LAWYER walking back Schmitz unfounded statement about Walker.
——Randall Crocker, the lawyer for special prosecutor Francis Schmitz, noted the investigation has been halted, saying, “At the time the investigation was halted, Governor Walker was not a target of the investigation. At no time has he been served with a subpoena.”-—
You Texans ought to understand crap-filled political witch hunts.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/16/texas-gov-perry-indicted-for-coercion-for-veto-threat/
-—Walker’s campaign staff and the charges included embezzlement.
Yes, embezzlement that Walker’s staff detected and ASKED TO BE INVESTIGATED.
-——But Nardelli told Chisholm that he was surprised that investigators had seized the computer of former Walker aide Darlene Wink and were attempting to do the same with Timothy D. Russell, a longtime Walker confidante. Nardelli accused Chisholm of using “a backdoor effort to look at a computer of someone who wasn’t even assigned to this office during the period in question.”
“We requested this investigation. Why did you request a John Doe?” Nardelli wrote. “What is your motive in doing so?” ——
Maybe you missed it. The current prosecutor just received the result of the Audit on WEDC at the end of last month. He was waiting for that audit to be complete before investigating the findings and other evidence that has been turned over to him. His investigation has just begun.