Posted on 09/09/2015 6:04:12 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
A Gannett reporter who writes for both the Appleton Post-Crescent and USA Today covering local and Wisconsin politics, including Gov. Scott Walker’s presidential bid, signed a petition in 2011 to recall Walker from office.
Madeleine Behr is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Madison, and she wrote for a number of publications before joining Gannett earlier this year.
Her first story for the Post-Crescent appeared online on July 2, and since then she’s published 35 stories, including four that focus on Walker’s presidential bid, and others that cover the political aspirations and maneuvers of high profile Democratic candidates.
In 2012, then-Post-Crescent publisher Genia Lovett disclosed that 25 Gannett journalists, including nine at the Post-Crescent, signed Walker recall petitions, but none of them were assigned to the political beat. “It was wrong, and those who signed were in breach of Gannett’s Principles of Ethical Conduct for Newsrooms,” Lovett wrote.
There’s no mistaking Behr’s contribution to both the Post-Crescent’s and USA Today’s political coverage. On Twitter, Behr claims she is, “Covering Wisconsin politics for @USATODAY. Local government @postcrescent.”
On November 18, 2011, Behr signed a petition to recall Walker from office. The address she lists is a UW Madison residence hall.
Joel Christopher, vice president of news for Gannett Wisconsin Media, responded to a Media Trackers inquiry about Behr’s assignment to cover Walker, saying, “We indeed are aware that Madeleine signed the Gov. Scott Walker recall election petition in 2011 because Madeleine made it a priority to tell us before she even interviewed for a reporting position with us.”
Christopher further explained that, “With Madeleine and every Gannett Wisconsin journalist whose work we put in front of the public, we invite people to read with a critical eye because we’re confident they will discover strong journalism reported fairly and accurately in a nonpartisan fashion in service of the public interest.”
“Scott Walker had his own email controversy,” blares the headline of Behr’s July 30 story about Walker, which claims that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s e-mail controversy involving classified information and secret personal servers is similar to a private e-mail network established by Walker aides when he was Milwaukee County Executive.
“While Clinton has been scrutinized for her use of private email for public purposes, Walker’s county executive office once faced questions, and even a criminal investigation, over its use of a private email system to do campaign work on public time,” Behr wrote. Her story went on to quote Jay Heck of Common Cause Wisconsin, a far-left group, and a former Democratic attorney general of Wisconsin who downplayed Clinton’s actions and played up what they thought was wrong-doing on the part of Walker.
Unlike a similar Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story, Behr never mentions that it was Democrats who first compared the Clinton e-mail situation to Walker’s aides’ actions.
Other stories Behr has written for Gannett about Walker include a column musing about the importance of Iowa to Walker’s presidential prospects, his poll numbers in Wisconsin, his plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare, and his performance in the first GOP presidential debate of the cycle.
Prior to joining the Post-Crescent / USA Today, Behr wrote for the leftwing Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, a non-profit that receives public support via its offices at a University of Wisconsin facility. A piece she wrote for the group criticizing Walker’s Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) was published by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
In college, Behr wrote for The Badger Herald, the UW Madison student newspaper. While there she penned a sympathetic portrait of a pro-union protester, wrongly claiming he was a member of the press. In another story she took up the Left’s anti-ALEC crusade, rehashing state Rep. Chris Taylor’s (D) points about the number of Wisconsin lawmakers who have attended or otherwise participated in the right-of-center legislative exchange. She also wrote about Walker.
According to her LinkedIn profile, Behr was an intern at the ultra-leftwing Center for Media and Democracy before leaving college.
I’m hardly a newbie. No, I’m not a Walker fan. I’ve researched him for a long time and have known what is now becoming evident to a lot more folks, hence his plummet in the polls.
Walker isn’t that guy -
Gov. Scott Walker Used to Run Marquette Students for Life .....”“A lifelong supporter of the pro-life movement, my work defending the unborn goes back to my college days where I was a leader of Marquette Students for Life.” “....
If there is one candidate that has been fully vetted by the opposition research it is Walker. He was attacked three times in three elections over four years. It was a full-on, hard left assault and all the media in Wisconsin were after him.
The GAB, Government Accountability Board, was designed to be a ‘nonpartisan’ political weapon that turned out to be very partisan, just like those Human Rights Commissions. They went after Walker as did the unions as did dozens of private investigators hired by Soros, unions, Democrats and wealthy Wisconsin liberals.
They came up with nothing. If as CJ implies there is evidence of Walker’s complicity, then it is up to CJ to provide proof of said complicity.
Instead, like a liberal, CJ uses innuendo and half-truths (aka lies) to smear Walker. CJ could be a MSM reporter given the skillset shown on FR.
Walker is an excellent governor. Of all the candidates he’s one with proven success implementing the kind of far reaching and permanent change to kill the Leviathan. He’s a real doer, an operator who hits his targets. He sits on a throne of skulls of his enemies because he knows how to talk to mollify and act to eliminate. It’s the perfect combo.
Give Walker a GOP Congress and he’ll do the same thing. That’s why he’s public enemy number one for liberals and their lieberal pals.
You post opposition threads all the time on Walker. You go on Walker threads - a Walker Stalker if I ever saw one - doggedly working to take him out, alternately taking the roll of a Concern Troll.
"Not a fan" - that's the understatement of the week.
Just like the Clintons, Walker let them take the fall. Even the lady who has filed a civil suit, could not believe how she was cast aside by Walker.
There seem to be some parallels. The illegal router, letting others take the fall, and the attempt by Walker to repeal the Open Records Laws by slipping it into the budget deal just before he announced. Same thing Slick Willie did in Arkansas.
Please never refer to these organizations as ‘News Media’. They are Propaganda Ministry Organs.
Why would anyone believe what you just typed, given your reputation for obfuscation and dissembling? Why just target Walker? Aren’t there other candidates on the GOP side that deserve your ire? I mean given your strict level of honesty at work and now in retirement on FR?
You really do swallow every drop that the liberals ejaculate!
I have an assignment for you:
1) Please compare the number of classified e-mails that Walker and his staff had on their private server compared to Hillary's.
2) Please compare the risk to National Security between Hillary's email server and Walker's campaign emails.
Perhaps you should spend less time defending Hillary Clinton and focus on your own conservatism.....because all I see is a liberal troll.
So what. Walker is a GOPe’er.
Because everybody deserves a fair shake.
Even jackasses.
There are a number of people on this thread who post opposition on other candidates threads all the time. I have no problem with that.
No, he’s the guy running to the USCOC and doing a passable kerry/Romney imitation of a fish flopping on a pier on pretty much any subject of note.
RUSH is the guy promoting hard leftists and moderates as conservative saviors.
Tell me if you have seen Rush, Levin and hannity, along with the rest of the frauds do this before.
Election ends...
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Year 1...
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Midterms...
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Year 3...
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Yup.
Walker earned the Left's undying hatred when he went after The Wisconsin Idea - the organ has shaped national politics, education and media for over 100 years (spread through academia and rippled outward).
My thoughts exactly. Gag order? When is it okay to defy a gag order? Rule of law? When will our leaders realize that only works one way? Clearly Walker isn’t up to speed and would not be effective as president. He’d get rolled by the counter-revolutionaries. That’s the best you can say about him.
I was talking about his candidacy.
What lie?
Conservativejoy: Most people don’t know about Walker’s private email server.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3334726/posts?page=5#5
Walker was never implicated, so your first lie is calling it Walker’s.
What other candidates have you been following and tracking? I’m excited to hear about how Democrats went after them and their staffers for years using John Doe laws.
You are suspect, though. What other candidates have you vetted?
Yeah, and Dayspring has been taking out conservatives ever since.
Why not just slam Walker for attending a cookout with gay people?
This death by association nonsense must stop.
One thing is abundantly clear, you are a foul mouthed.
I post articles on all the candidates. Just posted one comparing Cruz and Fiorina. I post a lot of Trump articles. Just posted one on Huckabee’s classless move yesterday at the Kim Davis rally.
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