Actually, millions of dollars in unsecured loans given to Walker donors through WEDC is the bigger issue. These loans were not paid back. Many of them were written off and no longer are reflected in the “outstanding loans” total. This is the tip of the iceberg.
The link you provided focused on a $500K loan.
And I’m not one to totally believe the media’s take on Walker.
Especially a media that ignored Solyndra.
Two were written off. See pages 26 and 27: http://legis.wisconsin.gov/lab/reports/13-7full.pdf Two others are being reviewed, 5 were forgiven (unknown terms of forgiveness, usually the company has to give something in return for forgiveness), etc.
It is worth posting and linking to facts rather than just claiming "Many" were written off and implying all of them were not paid back.