CREW requests investigation into Scott Walker's use of Wisconsin State Patrol
from Daily Kos by Barbara Morrill
While Republican Governor Scott Walker's immediate concern might be with putting out the fire started with the release of his revealing conversation with a blogger posing as billionaire David Koch, it's not the only thing on his plate:
Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a non-partisan government watchdog group, asked the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board to investigate whether Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker violated state law by sending the Wisconsin State Patrol (WSP) to the home of Democratic Senate Leader Matt Miller ...
“Governor Walker has many tools at his disposal to fight the state’s public employees, but using troopers to track down a political opponent crosses the line,” said CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan. Sloan continued, “The governor’s conduct is especially egregious in light of a Wisconsin law specifically barring troopers from taking part in any dispute between an employer and employee over wages, hours, labor, or working conditions -- the subject of the governor’s bill.”
CREW also notes that it was Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald who made the initial request for the trooper's involvement, and that the Wisconsin State Patrol (WSP) happens to be headed by Fitzgerald's father ... who became WSP's superintendent on the same day Walker introduced his union-busting bill.
How handy.
Read CREW's letter to the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board here.
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