Wisconsin doles out $577,000 in overtime to governor’s security staff

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Oh how nice.

MADISON, Wis. — Taxpayers paid out more than $577,000 to nine current and former members of Gov. Scott Walker’s security team last year after a federal agency found the state had wrongly withheld overtime pay from them.

The payouts cover a period of time, from May 2013 to May 2015, when Walker frequently traveled for his presidential run, according to the State Patrol. Walker’s campaign and political organizations paid the airfare and hotel costs of the security team during that time, but not the state troopers’ salaries.

State officials were forced to make the payments because the federal Department of Labor determined the State Patrol’s payment systems were flawed and had wrongly withheld overtime pay from the security team. It worked with the state to calculate what was owed over the two-year period it reviewed.

Four sergeants received the lion’s share in overtime payments, about $320,000 in all. Three others were paid between $62,000 and $66,000 each, one was paid about $55,000 and one was paid about $10,000

Runs all over the country sharing his visions of being a tin pot dictator while leaving his constituents holding the bag.

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1. Sleazeball considers his underlings his slaves. I hate that asshole. nt

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2. It pains me to go into Wisconsin these days...

...seeing the damage that beedy eyed little fuckstick and his allies in both the legislature and the courts are doing to Wisconsin these days.