Watchdog Exploring Campaign Finance, Ethics Law-Breaking By Gov. Walker (Prank Call)

[Hissyspit]

Source: Public Campaign Action Fund

WATCHDOG EXPLORING CAMPAIGN FINANCE AND ETHICS LAW-BREAKING BY SCOTT WALKER DURING FAKE CALL WITH BILLIONAIRE “DAVID KOCH”

WATCHDOG EXPLORING CAMPAIGN FINANCE AND ETHICS LAW-BREAKING BY SCOTT WALKER DURING FAKE CALL WITH BILLIONAIRE “DAVID KOCH”

If Walker broke the law, he should resign, says watchdog

Washington, D.C.—Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wisc.), in a taped telephone conversation released last night, appears to suggest political coordination while talking to someone he believes is one of his political donors, David Koch--a possible illegal action, according to campaign watchdog Public Campaign Action Fund.  

“In a call with who he thought to be billionaire political donor David Koch, Gov. Walker may have broken campaign finance and ethics laws,” said David Donnelly, national campaigns director for Public Campaign Action Fund. “If he did, he should resign.

“If you didn’t believe it before, you have to now—this fight isn’t about the budget, it’s about favors for corporate special interests,” continued Donnelly. “If Wisconsin law forbids coordination with political donors similar to federal law, Gov. Scott Walker is not just in political trouble, but in legal hot water.”

Public Campaign Action Fund is currently in discussions with election experts on whether Gov. Walker may have broken state election law and whether a complaint should be filed.

Read more: http://campaignmoney.org/press-room/2011/02/23/watchdog-exploring-law-breaking-walker

[L. Coyote]

1. DU: Gov. Scott Walker needs to resign NOW! Admitting felonies on tape.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x490151

Wed Feb-23-11 09:50 AM PST

[Plucketeer]

2. OH BABY!

IF ONLY this came 'round to bite him on the patootie! LOL!!!

[Grassy Knoll]

3. Busted, LOL

[cynzke]

4. Toast!

Gee...Walker won't talk to his public employees but will take a phone call from (fake) billionaire Koch brother! Slap some butter on him...Walker is toast!

[yesphan]

5. He'll just claim

That he knew he was being punked and played along as a joke.

Nothing to see here.

[murielm99]

6. Then why did he disclose his entire political game plan

during the course of the call? The move to withhold paychecks from the Democratic 14 has been in the newspapers. But he spoke about how he is planning to trick them into coming back to the state. He spoke in great detail.

I think he hurt himself greatly during the course of that call.

[yesphan]

8. I surely hope so, but

these folks are so unwilling to take account for their actions, I won't be surprised
if absolutely nothing come of this. There seems to me a pretty high degree of wiggle room
for him. I do hope he's sitting in a room by himself right now, head in hands and sweating from
every pore.

[DeSwiss]

10. Too late for that one.....

....since he' already admitted to being pwned: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/walker_office_confirms_governor_fell_for_koch_pran.php">Walker's Office Confirms Governor Fell For 'Koch' Prank Call



K&R

[Myrina]

7. Goddess, please let this have been the real Scott Walker ...

.... please please please ...

[October]

9. It's been confirmed...

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2011/02/governor_walkers_office_confir.html

Posted at 11:34 AM ET, 02/23/2011
Governor Walker's office confirms prank Koch call
By Greg Sargent

The Internet is burning up with the news that Governor Scott Walker may have been pranked by a caller claiming to be David Koch, and a spokesman for the Governor, Cullen Werwie, emails a statement confirming the call is legit:

The Governor takes many calls everyday. Throughout this call the Governor maintained his appreciation for and commitment to civil discourse. He continued to say that the budget repair bill is about the budget. The phone call shows that the Governor says the same thing in private as he does in public and the lengths that others will go to disrupt the civil debate Wisconsin is having.

[summerschild]

12. Same thing in private as he does in public??????

“The phone call shows that the Governor says the same thing in
private as he does in public and the lengths that others will
go to disrupt the civil debate Wisconsin is having.”

Same thing he says in public?  Not much.  What the phone call
shows is how dishonest he is and the lengths he will go to in
order to get his way. ("oh, yeah, we talked about hiring
us some trouble makers....)  

The call makes it exceedingly clear this is NOT about the
budget.  In public he says it is.  The call proves his MAIN
mission is to break the unions; budget is secondary.  Has he
told the public that there’s a national effort in
collaboration with Republican governors and corporate donors
to break them?  The call proves there is.  

The call divulges his plan to lie to the Democratic
legislators by offering to hear them out, though he states he
has NO intention of changing his position. His trick is to
lure them into meeting with him so he can use a loophole in
procedural rules to pass the bill even if they aren’t in the
session to vote.  There's an honest broker for ya.  

No, he hasn’t said any of that in public.  The man is a liar. 
PUBLIC, ARE YOU LISTENING?

[BuelahWitch]

19. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[lsewpershad]

11. Good

There is always a way to do the right thing.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

13. absolutely he condemned himself with his own words....the jackass is stupid like Palin...stupider

[onehandle]

14. K&R. nt

.

[joeunderdog]

15. Won't the defense say that the caller was not actually a donor? nt

[eleny]

20. He received money from the Koch Industries PAC...

"According to Wisconsin campaign finance filings, Walker's gubernatorial campaign received $43,000 from the Koch Industries PAC during the 2010 election."
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/02/wisconsin-scott-walker-koch-brothers

So there was also direct contributions as well as through the Republican Governors Association as detailed in the same article.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

16. How many months will this take?

The public will forget about this call in less than 5 days. Unless there is some major fallout from it in that time, it'll be old news and nothing will happen.

I wouldn't expect too much to come of it really. These Republican douchebags act with impunity - their corprat owners control the judiciary too remember, all the way to the supreme court.

EDIT: I hope I'm WRONG!

[Jmaxfie1]

17. Hopefully he will resign, but if not, is this admissible? Perhaps under the Patroit Act ;) n/t

[Tripod]

18. K&R

[Exultant Democracy]

21. I was wondering if it was legal for Governers to be flown to CA and "shown a good time."

[City Lights]

22. If Scut Scumbag Walker broke the law, he should go to jail. nt

[Blue Owl]

23. PERP WALKER

Cuff him and stuff him.

[Kurovski]

24. How did I miss this? K&R. (nt)