It’s Not Just Hillary: Scott Walker’s Email Controversy

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"But Hillary is not the only one with an email problem. Can you say Scott Walker, the Wisconsin Governor and Republican 2016 frontrunner?

Before Walker was elected governor, when he was Milwaukee County Executive, Walker’s staff kept a secret email system and set up a secret wireless router in Walker’s government office that commingled government and campaign business on private Gmail and Yahoo email accounts.

On top of that, county employees were doing campaign work on government time and, by extension, on the taxpayers’ dime—in violation of state law. As the story goes, one of Walker’s aides, Darlene Wink, copped to a misdemeanor guilty plea, and got off with probation for doing campaign work during office hours. Kelly Rindfleisch, Walker’s deputy chief of staff when he was county executive, pleaded guilty to a single felony count for spending “significant time” working as a fund-raiser on government time for Brett Davis, Walker’s running mate.

But it didn’t end there. Brian Pierick, one of the secret website’s webmasters, was convicted of enticing a minor. Another Walker webmaster, Timothy Russell, was sentenced to two years in prison and five years’ probation for stealing from a veterans group, using the money for trips to Hawaii and the Caribbean, and for meeting with Herman Cain’s presidential campaign on the veterans’ tab."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/04/it-s-not-just-hillary-scott-walker-s-email-controversy.html

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2. Scott Walker has 2,500 emails that the Milwaukee County attorney says will not be released.

And that was over ten days ago, in a small blimp in the local paper. And no attention.

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3. I missed that.

Why won't they release them?

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4. they are full of personally identifiable information

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Milwaukee County officials say they don’t plan another mass release of emails collected in the John Doe investigation into Gov. Scott Walker’s aides and associates when he was county executive.

County attorney Paul Bargren says in a letter Wednesday to The Associated Press that more than 29 gigabytes of documents were released as ordered by a judge between August and December. The AP and other news organizations reviewed hundreds of thousands of documents during that time.

Bargren says more than 2,500 emails remain to be released that deal with constituents or their representatives inquiring about public assistance issues. He says they are full of personally identifiable information and the county has no more money budgeted to process them.

http://fox11online.com/2015/02/18/milwaukee-county-says-nearly-all-walker-emails-released/

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5. Well, then if they say they have no more money to process them, then we will have to take them at

their word….

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8. I have a leftover day from jury duty.

I would volunteer to bring a black marker and cross out identifying information. I could probably get through quite a bunch in one day. With a couple other volunteers we could have them done in a week.

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10. I would think this would be acceptable...

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6. "Bargren says requesting media can come review the records if they want."

This is what I'm waiting for… Media to come forward and go through these emails.

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9. Can I be a "requesting media"?

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12. Well, I don't see why not…. Especially if the payed media doesn't step up to this badly needed

investigation to review these documents

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7. ScottWalker.. not a federal employee ...nt

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11. I'm interested why you have responded about his employee status?

If you could elaborate I sure would like to know thanks.