Posted on 04/05/2011 4:22:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Just in his mid-20s, Brian Deschane has no college degree, very little management experience and two drunken-driving convictions.
Yet he has landed an $81,500-per-year job in Gov. Scott Walker's administration overseeing environmental and regulatory matters and dozens of employees at the Department of Commerce. Even though Walker says the state is broke and public employees are overpaid, Deschane already has earned a promotion and a 26% pay raise in just two months with the state.
How did Deschane score his plum assignment with the Walker team?
It's all in the family.
His father is Jerry Deschane, executive vice president and longtime lobbyist for the Madison-based Wisconsin Builders Association, which bet big on Walker during last year's governor's race.
The group's political action committee gave $29,000 to Walker and his running mate, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, last year, making it one of the top five PAC donors to the governor's successful campaign. Even more impressive, members of the trade group funneled more than $92,000 through its conduit to Walker's campaign over the past two years.
Total donations: $121,652.
That's big-time backing from the homebuilders.
The younger Deschane didn't respond to questions about his job.
But his father said he doesn't think his group's financial support of the first-term Republican helped his son in his job search.
"He got the position himself," said Jerry Deschane, who returned to the trade group in September after a hiatus during which he worked as an independent lobbyist for many groups, including the builders association. "I didn't get it for him."
One Walker critic isn't buying it.
State Rep. Brett Hulsey called Deschane's appointment another case of the new administration using state jobs to repay various industries.
Hulsey said he was unimpressed with the younger Deschane's résumé, including his lack of environmental or management experience.
(Excerpt) Read more at jsonline.com ...
>> One Walker critic isn’t buying it. <<
Yeah, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Too bad they didn’t tell us, say, what his work history is, so we could decide for ourselves if its unreasonable.
People are angry that he has only two DUIs.
It would be an honor!
Personally I will wait to hear what Walker says about it, not my liberal Milwaukee Urinal Sentinel. That paper had it in for him since he was county executive.
We have someone from DKos on site ... why don't you leave?
Your behavior is wholly uncivil.
Are you unaware of this site's rules regarding personal attacks?
You can be banned for that ... is that what you desire?
Thank you very much.
Still a frigging joke, the good governor has pretty much ended his career in politics.
Daniel Bice can be contacted by phone at (414) 223-5468 or by e-mail at dbice@journalsentinel.com.
1000% correct,
Tell the union goons to shove that block of cheese up their exhaust pipe.
The Won wasn’t editor of the [Harvard] Law Review. He was given the AA post of "President" of the HLR.
A post, by the way, that didn't require him to write any articles, but that did involve organizing (that word again) a lot of coffee receptions.
If this is so easy to verify, why has “0” had all of his records sealed so no one can verify?
Below average if you are union.
Aren’t these unions fighting for the middle class?
RE: Wow, you are awesome! Thanks for finding this tidbit from jsonline! I wish I had never voted for Scott Walker.
Let’s say you did not vote for Walker, what would have been your alternative?
Regardless of Scott Walker’s political party, this action on his part is reprehensible and corrupt. He ought to be ashamed of himself!
Alexander Hamilton was about that age when Washington appointed him to his staff.
How so?
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