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Every national politician in the country is going to be peppered with questions about what they think of Hillary Clintons e-mail controversy. This morning is Wisconsin Governor Scott Walkers turn. Walker didnt hold backhe told the Weekly Standards John McCormack:
"Its a logical assumption that the secretary of state is talking about highly confidential classified information. How can she ensure that that information wasnt compromised. I think thats the bigger issueis the audacity to think that someone would put their personal interest above classified, confidential, highly sensitive information thats not only important to her but to the United States of America. I think is an outrage that Democrats as well as Republicans should be concerned about.
As McCormack notes, Walkers attack shows quite a bit of chutzpah, because he himself got caught running a secret e-mail network for his inner circle of advisers when he was Milwaukee County executive. In their illuminating book, More Than They Bargained For: Scott Walker, Unions, and the Fight for Wisconsin, Jason Stein and Patrick Marley, reporters for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, provide the details.
In May 2010, the Walker administration asked a constituent services coordinator named Darlene Wink to resign, after a Journal Sentinel columnist caught her posting online political comments supporting Walker while she was supposed to be working on the taxpayers dime. As Stein and Marley write,
When the Wink story broke, Walkers deputy chief of staff, Kelly Rindfleisch, quickly dismantled a private Internet router set up in her office, which was twenty-five feet away from Walkers. During her few months on the job, she had been using the secret router and a laptopboth separate from the regular county systemto trade electronic messages with Walkers campaign staff and raise money for state Representative Brett Davis, a GOP candidate for lieutenant governor. With attention suddenly on Wink, who had also used the router, Rindfleisch stuffed the device into a credenza in her office. I took the wireless down, she wrote in an e-mail to Tim Russell, who had served as Walkers deputy chief of staff before Rindfleisch. Russell, then working as Walkers housing director, had initially set up the router for Wink and Rindfleisch to use, prosecutors alleged.
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Vinca
(50,411 posts)Where are his emails from the 2000 election vote count?????
Blue Owl
(51,430 posts)YES!
Everything about that tool is shady...
mmonk
(52,589 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)... for him on government time. This is when he was County Executive in Milwaukee County.
When caught with it Walker emailed his staff, warning them to hide, not stop, their illegal activities.
I'm no fan of Hillary, but Walker's corruption knows no bounds. The man is totally evil. Besides, what we've actually seen about Hillary's email doesn't even prove there was an appearance of a conflict of interest, let alone nefarious activity.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)it might be considered different.
The law forbids campaign work on the taxpayers' clock. The email system was meant to support the campaign via the workplace.
It's unclear as of yet, everything that was communicated through it. There may have been federal campaign laws broken re coordination of campaigns and tax-exempt 'public service' PACs.