Walker keeps delivering special interest privatization, favors

More evidence is piling up about about the favors showered on well-connected private interests in GOP-run Wisconsin as right-wing Governor and corporate bellhop Scott Walker readies a run for a third term which deep-pocketed donors will again fund.

* He's ready to sign a bill brazenly and successfully demanded by major ag, dairy and related farming industries that gives the owners of at least 13,000 high-volume wells permanent rights to public groundwater regardless of draw down impacts on nearby rivers, streams, lakes and neighbors' drinking water supplies.

Not coincidentally, many of the state's large and often-polluting animal feedlot operations are running while state regulators look the other way on expired permits, giving their owners an inspection-free/open-ended permission to operate without regard to public impacts.

Details, here.

* Now we're learning through the exclusive reporting of Dan Bice at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the ultra-powerful Bradley Foundation quietly funded and a Walker administration family policy commission aligned with the Foundation's right-wing goals.

* And while Walker's colossally-failed Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation has thrown money at Walker donors and failed to keep accurate books - - and is a winner in Walker's pending, re-election budget for fresh millions and restored lending authority despite earlier accounting flaws - - a state audit released today into the agency's continuing miasma showed it failed to meet legal requirements for tax credit financing and still could not prove with data that it actually creates and/or retains jobs.

Imagine if an audit of Green Bay Packers finances found that the franchise continually could not track its finances or that that its highly-touted draft picks had contributed positively to the team's performance as the General Manager had promised and claimed.

Would you urge that the team's General Manager be given a new four-year contract?