How Walker Turned 'Job Creation' Into a Goodie Bag for Campaign Donors

TPM ^ | July 23, 2015 | Brian Murphy

[1947Jenn]

Unless the report authors were making things up, Walker has no business running for President, imo. No wonder Trump repeated a couple of times, 'He's got problems'. Yes, he does. Reminds me of the Hillary enabled grant from a State Dept fund. 30M given to a Clinton Foundation donor, issued w/i 2 weeks (normally 6+ months) No audited financials provided and an in-house financial doc was delivered 2 days post loan. Needless to say, the money evaporated.

[jonno]

bookmark

[JohnBrowdie]

good grief. why not mine Pravda for hit peices on scott walker? they have more credibility.

[1947Jenn]

I googled around after posting. There are other WI papers with the same or similar details. The WEDC set up smells really bad.

[Reno89519]

Hit piece? Is it true or not, isn’t that more important? And TPM, why not? They are a step up from Daily Kos. Heck, National Inquirer has squeezed in some news around alien abduction stories.

[Menthops]

Facts are facts, regardless of source.

Do not dismiss this just because it makes Walker look really bad.

[grania]

Is this true? If not, it should be reputed with a source that satisfies people who don't trust this one.

A few weeks ago there was a story that Walker privately told a donor in regards to illegals he wasn't going "nativist". Walker hasn't refuted that story.

Maybe he's not ready for prime time.

[JohnBrowdie]

No, I’m dismissing it because it’s from a shitty liberal publication.

[hoosiermama]

One of best teachers said:
“Consider the source then dig deeper to find truth !
Is there a grain of truth? What has been misrepresented? How? Why?”

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Welcome to FR.

Union member?

[FredZarguna]

WI papers

Uh huh.

[FredZarguna]

If they are facts. Funny thing about Talking Points Memo, though, most of their "facts" aren't facts.

[FredZarguna]

National Inquirer has squeezed in some news around alien abduction stories.

But Talking Points Memo has not. It's kind of like Moonves CBS, except without the "credibility."

[FredZarguna]

To add to the problems, the new public/private agency didn't put into place personnel policies until over a year after it's inception.

And this is a problem because why?

[FredZarguna]

“We reviewed files for 64 awards that WEDC made in FY 2011-12 and found that WEDC made some awards to ineligible recipients, for ineligible projects, and for amounts that exceeded limits specified in its policies.”

What is "some?" Why isn't "some" quantified? Because it's one? Two? If it made between 6 and 10 ineligible awards, that would be typical of most state governments, and well under the percentage of ineligible awards made by the Federal government.

Why are you citing a rabidly anti-conservative source, which does not cite any authoritative entity for its own sources of information, and which does not even specify the actual scale of so-called "corruption?"

[FredZarguna]

[hoosiermama]

The source may be questionable but material should be checked out. Trumps comment to Walker having problems was not just pulled out of thin air. Is this what he was taking about?

Freepers start your (search) engines!

[FredZarguna]

I refer you to post #15. There is no sourcing for these allegations, and there is no indication of the amount of waste, fraud and abuse, just that a "legislative review" found "some." It doesn't even say that the alleged improprieties involve distinct entities.

There are also three concern trolls posting on this thread with sign-up dates from 2014/08, 2014/09, and 2014/12, claiming that the source of the information, which has a history of smearing and lying about conservatives "doesn't matter."

I wonder if the source of the information was Dan Rather and Mary Mapes if FReepers would be quite so credulous. After all, Dan Rather often reported "facts."

I find your lack of skepticism disturbing.

[FredZarguna]

The burden of proof is on Trump for making the allegations, not on FReepers to do opposition research on his behalf.

If Trump has something, he needs to provide the information and its sources with specificity. Then we'll go out and check The Donald's allegations. Otherwise it's just innuendo. Worthy of a lib/prog hack, but not a serious conservative candidate.

[RIghtwardHo]

Yeah I am definitely becoming less and less of a fan of the man. And you are correct. I did the same. Other sources confirm.