Walker is outspending Barrett 12 to l with 12 pending indictments to his name.

...Walker continues (click here) to bank checks over and above the $10,000 individual limit currently allowed by law. This is permissible only if Walker is using the funds to pay old bills. Many are speculating that Walker will use the funds to pay undisclosed legal bills, at least four law firms are now involved in representing the campaign and Walker himself. Walker is the only governor in the nation with a criminal defense fund due to a wide-ranging probe being run out of the Milwaukee District Attorney's office into Walker's former staff and associates that has already netted 15 felony indictments. While Walker has denied being a "target" of the probe, politicians are not allowed to use campaign dollars to pay legal bills unless they or their agents are the target of an investigation....

Secret Email System Revealed in "John Doe" Probe of Walker Staff (click here)

Posted: 01/30/2012 11:57 am

The morning after his "State of the State" address where Governor Scott Walker reassured Wisconsin, "We are turning things around. We are heading in the right direction," the Milwaukee County District Attorney charged two more Walker staffers with multiple felony and misdemeanor counts of misconduct in public office.

Darlene Wink and Kelly Rindfleisch were chargedwith conducting partisan campaign work while on the public payroll. The alleged crimes took place while Walker was Milwaukee County Executive and running to be governor. These charges are no joke in the state of Wisconsin, where in 2005, two Senate Democrats and the Republican Assembly Speaker were sentenced to jail time for similar crimes in an episode dubbed "the Caucus Scandal."

This time, Milwaukee County DA John Chisholm is in charge of a secret "John Doe" investigation where he can compel testimony under oath and every person involved is subject to a gag order. Chisholm has used this process in the past to jail Democrats for similar misconduct in office....

Walker staffer quits after admitting she posted Web comments while at work (click here)

May 14, 2010

...The vast majority of these were done while she was on the clock for the taxpayers and the county.

That's certainly not the kind of message a self-described penny-pincher like Walker wants to be sending to voters.

Just hours after being interviewed by No Quarter on Thursday, Wink - vice chairwoman of the Milwaukee County Republican Party - abruptly resigned her job in Walker's office. On the county payroll since 2002, the year Walker was elected county executive, Wink was paid nearly $40,000 a year in 2008, the most recent year for which data was available....

It is very difficult to believe Scott Walker didn't know what was going on and didn't encourage it. This was occurring in his office among his staff, of course he knew.

Latest Indictments Look Bad for Scott Walker (click here)

By Ruth Conniff, January 28, 2012

...The worst, so far, are the allegations that Walker staffers Tim Russell and Kevin Kavanaugh stole money that was supposed to go to Wisconsin veterans and vendors at a Milwaukee County Zoo veterans' event, as well as the widows and children of Wisconsin's war dead--and used it to pay for cruises, restaurant meals, and a Walker-for-governor campaign web site....

...Milwaukee County Supervisor John Weishan, who first blew the whistle on Darlene Wink, does not buy the idea that Walker didn't know what was going on in his office. "...

...In Walker's email telling staff to avoid using laptops and web sites, Weishan says, "He's telling his people, 'Don’t be so blatant about it. Don’t be stupid and make it so public. Use the private system.'"...