Scott Walker Let State Republican Chair and Campaign Donor Off the Hook in Pension Scandal

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Scott Walker Let State Republican Chair and Campaign Donor Off the Hook in Pension Scandal

http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12433

MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT
Was Scott Walker asleep at the wheel as chief executive of Milwaukee County when it came to pension reform?
According to a 2007 article in Milwaukee Magazine, the answer is an emphatic yes: "Walker always seems to drag his feet when it comes to cleaning up the county's pension system."
Non-Wisconsin readers should know that Walker was elected in the backlash reaction to a pension scandal in the county in 2002, and has been riding the pension reform issue ever since. But talking pension reform and implementing it in a timely manner are two different things - and Walker is a very good talker.
At the heart of the huge pension budgetary increase that propelled Walker into county office as a reformer was a consulting firm, Mercer Human Resources. Of course, it would be contrary to Walker's privatization ideology to blame a "free market" firm for any extra costs to the taxpayers, so this assessment from Milwaukee Magazine portends some ominous developments for the people of Wisconsin: