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IRS copycat? Milwaukee lawmaker requests audit for ‘political retribution’
FOX News ^ | August 5, 2014 | By Adam Tobias

Posted on 08/06/2014 4:20:25 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

A liberal Milwaukee County board member with ties to Big Labor is taking a page out of the Internal Revenue Service playbook.

County Supervisor David Bowen, who worked with Service Employees International Union-affiliated officials on the county’s newly implemented “living wage” law, is calling for a county audit of Supportive Homecare Options Inc., one of three private firms contracted with the Milwaukee County Department of Family Care.

Bowen is making the request even though Family Care officials review budget documents every year and have found no financial inconsistencies with Supportive Homecare Options’ records, sources say.

Sally Sprenger, owner of Supportive Homecare Options, has been an outspoken critic of Bowen’s taxpayer-funded wage increase since the very beginning, mainly because the millions in added costs are projected to exhaust the reserves of Family Care by 2019, jeopardizing the jobs of her company’s nearly 1,200 employees. . .

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1 posted on 08/06/2014 4:20:25 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

...and to think some people still think we are a Republic. Ha.


2 posted on 08/06/2014 4:23:34 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
COUNTY SUPERVISOR DAVID BOWEN

David Bowen is the son of Jamaican immigrants who came to Milwaukee to pursue a better life for their family. Born and raised on Milwaukee’s North Side, David was a 2005 honors graduate of Bradley Tech High School.

As a teen and young adult, David completed Urban Underground’s youth leadership program. He was selected as a Legacy Foundation Youth Activism Fellow and is a two-time graduate of the Americorps program, Public Allies. David continued to volunteer with Urban Underground while pursuing his undergraduate degree in Educational Policy and Community Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

http://county.milwaukee.gov/Bowen

3 posted on 08/06/2014 4:25:23 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

SEIU? Liberal? No surprise here.


4 posted on 08/06/2014 4:39:00 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Surprised? democrats can’t resist the urge to persecute their enemies. democrats and other marxists have no principles, no morals, no ethics.


5 posted on 08/06/2014 4:40:02 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

AKA another worthless community agitator.


6 posted on 08/06/2014 4:55:05 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: Lazamataz

We are a BANANA REPUBLIC......with NO bananas.


7 posted on 08/06/2014 4:57:26 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

I can think of many bananas among the 535 occupying seats in Congress...most are red (RATs), many are blue (GOP/RINOs).


8 posted on 08/06/2014 6:29:36 AM PDT by logi_cal869
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