Behind The Scenes: Big $$$ Puppeting Revealed in Walker Exit - Fascinating Read!

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The Emergency Meeting That Led Walker To Quit
The governor left his closest supporters in the dark, even his biggest financial backers.

A great read on how the 'patrons' that donate gobs of cash to their candidate expect them to jump through hoops, respect their financial masters and keep them deeply involved in the campaign. If you think that big PAC money doesn't buy influence on all sides of the political spectrum, one read of this article will set you straight.


http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/scott-walker-quits-2016-213912#ixzz3mTFH9gpo

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Walker and his campaign manager Rick Wiley had previously scheduled a Thursday conference call for anxious top donors. It had added urgency after the debate. Contributors were revolting, and many had painted a bulls-eye on Wiley’s back amid the nosedive in the polls. “The donors are angry. They want improvements,” one Walker contributor said in an interview after the debate and before Walker dropped out. “There’s a complete lack of confidence. He’s got to fire Wiley. He’s got to bring in someone new immediately.”

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The Thursday call for donors came too late to keep billionaire Stanley Hubbard, who had contributed $50,000 to Walker’s super PAC, fully in the fold. Hubbard decided that while he wasn’t quite ditching Walker, he would begin hedging his bets by donating to multiple candidates. The next day, Hubbard would leave Walker a voicemail. He wanted to offer some tips. “What I was going to tell him is that he should get some training, some TV training. I know where to get it,” Hubbard said in an interview.

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Walker’s biggest political patrons, the Ricketts family, which has contributed $5 million to his super PAC, felt similarly blindsided, according to an adviser to the Walker campaign. Todd Ricketts, who has been among Walker’s most aggressive fundraisers, did not get a call until later Monday afternoon. Ricketts, whose family owns the Chicago Cubs, was set to host a Manhattan fundraiser later this week, and had been busily organizing a never-before-reported event for Walker bundlers at Wrigley field on October 2. Even amid sinking poll numbers, turnout was expected to be high. “The Wrigley field thing was going to be awesome,” said the adviser. “This guy busted his ass for Scott Walker.”

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1. Sounds like coordination of campaign activities to me...

And then some

[ProgressiveCheese]

5. Walker doesn't care about that.

He's the king of it. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/scott-walker-john-doe-investigation

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6. wow, you are right

[Fred Sanders]

2. The con judges assured all voters that there would be no corruption from CU unlimited cash.

Not only were they wrong, corruption is what they wanted all along.

Brazil got it right. Money begets corruption as surely as clouds beget rain.

[Hortensis]

3. Blindsiding one's biggest up-front donors does not seem like a smart move.

I notice Politico does not mention whether he spoke with any of the Kochs. They may not have given money up front but were at one time apparently planning to invest a substantial portion of that $900 million in putting him the White House.

[snooper2]

4. I was hoping the frumpy family would stay in it a little long LOL

We didn't get to make much fun of you Scottie...come on just another month!