"Walker is for Walker". And if you're not paying him, your needs don't matter

Scott Walker may talk a lot about how he likes being governor, but he sure isn't keen on doing the job. Several recent developments illustrate that Governor Dropout doesn't believe in any concept of "public service," but instead only believes in helping himself.

Just today, I noticed this press release from former Corrections Secretary Ed Wall talking about his new book, which discusses how the Walker Administration and the Republican Attorney General really handle their business.

“I have spent my life believing in the rule of law,” said Ed Wall, former Secretary of Corrections in the Walker cabinet. “I am not a politician and have served both parties with honor. But when I saw the legal manipulation, disregard for ethics, state law, self-serving policies and deceit by Scott Walker and attorney general Brad Schimel, I felt a responsibility to the people of Wisconsin to tell my story.”

Unethical details his work as the secretary of the largest agency in the administration and how he dealt with “two experienced politicians who are masters at making people believe they are something they are not. The two highest elected officials in Wisconsin showed me there is another side of government that was not flattering. I learned that everything from personal integrity and morals to the well-being of society could be sacrificed in the never-ending pursuit of power.”

And just this week, Peter Bildsten, who served as Secretary of Financial Intitutions in Walker first term, levied similar charges. Bildsten endorsed Democratic candidate Tony Evers for governor in a video and says that Walker couldn’t care less about the taxpayers who pay for Scotty’s 6-figure salary if they don't give to his campaigns. But if you did give to Walker, you also got to influence other departments like DFI.

Bildsten was Financial Institutions secretary from 2011 until early 2015. In the online video, Bildsten said “it seemed like every decision Walker made was about pleasing his donors.” Bildsten said he was required to meet with those who had donated heavily to Walker, including a lobbyist from the payday lending industry.

Bildsten, like Wall, also said he was encouraged not to create records that would be subject to public disclosure.

“I thought Scott Walker was different, but he’s just another politician looking out for himself,” Bildsten said.

Bildsten first made the accusations about Walker looking to evade the open records law in a story published by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism in 2015, shortly after Bildsten left the administration.

Former Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. head Paul Jadin also said in that story that administration officials were told at the start of Walker’s first term not to use state email or phone systems to share important information.

And now add in this third part, which comes as part of One Wisconsin Now’s database of Scott Walker’s usage of state-funded airplanes since 2015.

Our @rossacrosswi responds to @scottwalker's attack against our small non-profit organization: Walker spent $65,000 in taxpayer-funded plane trips to 26 invite-only "listening sessions." https://t.co/xStmDejvGI

— One Wisconsin Now (@onewisconsinnow) August 21, 2018

OWN also reminds us that those invite-only “listening sessions” just happened to be filled with GOP donors and local officials, and quotes a part of Wall’s book where Wall saysthose events were basically PR BS.

Walker’s office has tried to justify his massive plane usage as legitimate efforts at outreach to the people of Wisconsin. But a former Walker cabinet secretary, Ed Wall, wrote in his recently released book about his time in the administration that, “The administration’s fear of a protestor spectacle at every stop would eventually turn the town hall meetings into little more than paid infomercial dog and pony shows for future campaign ads.” [“Unethical,” Page 163]

Huh, sounds just like that trip Walker made on the state plane up to Three Lakes High School last September, which magically had its footage appearing in Walker ads less than a year later.

Never forget the words of the late Mike Ellis from 2014 – “I think Walker is working for Walker.” And unless you can help Walker gain more money and/or power, you don't matter.


He was weird, but he sure pegged Walker.

Understand that, and a lot of what seems negligent or idiotic in WalkerWorld makes a lot more sense.