THE PROGRESSIVE
‘Badgergate’ Rattles Wisconsin: ‘Walker is Clearly at the Center’
By Stephen C. Webster, Feb. 21, 2014
Appearing on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” Thursday night, The Progressive’s editor Ruth Conniff sounded off on what Ed’s calling “Badgergate,” telling viewers that Gov. Scott Walker appears to be at the center of a criminal conspiracy.
“Walker has said repeatedly that he had nothing to do with [illegal campaigning],” Ruth said. “But now, if you look at all these emails and the totality of them, it’s a very clear picture. Walker was a micromanager. He mixed together campaign staff and the county staff who worked under him, and they talked constantly throughout the day about campaign matters and about public policy matters, but strictly in political terms.”
“So, he basically moved his campaign, took over the Milwaukee County Executive’s office with his campaign. He’d wanted to run for governor starting in 2002, and he ran this incredibly political operation secretly to avoid open records laws,” she added.
Schultz asked if there’s any way Walker could still deny knowledge, despite emails that clearly show his involvement in his aides’ criminal activity.
“He has said nothing today and he’s left the state,” she replied. “He said through a spokesman that he had no further comment on the matter. Right before the documents were released yesterday, he said this is all old news, you’re not going to see anything new, it’s a partisan witch hunt, which has been the talking points from him and his allies from the beginning.”
“Even though there’s been a Republican judge in charge of this first John Doe,” Ruth added. “There’s a new John Doe investigation, another secret investigation, which is currently underway, in which Walker may indeed be a target. That is also led by a Republican prosecutor. So, the partisan witch hunt narrative just completely falls apart. But he’s really had very little to say about it, and in fact what’s coming out is very, very damaging for him.”
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