The Guardian's John Doe file disclosures are voluminous, but if you have only time to read one file and a few paragraphs among the many easily catalogued online for your reading, make sure it's the one with emails from a fund-raising consultant detailing how and why Gov. Scott Walker - - skewered as "a supplicant" for big money in The Washington Post's Doe files story Tuesday - - should hit up the super-rich.
Within that file are less than fifty words which sum up what the entire Walker experience has done to our state - - and, again - - don't miss the why, because it screams the same kind of sweetheart pay-to-play undercurrent which has roiled public WEDC 'job development' financing to DNR land and permit decisions:
Within that file are less than fifty words which sum up what the entire Walker experience has done to our state - - and, again - - don't miss the why, because it screams the same kind of sweetheart pay-to-play undercurrent which has roiled public WEDC 'job development' financing to DNR land and permit decisions:
“Take Koch’s [sic] money,” Kate Doner, Walker’s fundraising consultant, urged him in September 2011. “Get on a plane to Vegas and sit down with Sheldon Adelson. Ask for $1m now. Corporations. Go heavy after them to give . . . Create a list of legislation that passed and benefits whom.”Seriously!
"Corporations. Go heavy after them to give . . . Create a list of legislation that passed and benefits whom.”No wonder Team Walker wanted the Doe probe shut down.
