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Wisconsin Judges Receive Campaign Funding from Party Accused of Corruption with Scott Walker
Judges Dismiss Case and Demand All Evidence be Destroyed
Walker was accused of coordinating with conservative and business advocacy groups during the 2012 recall elections. The Wisconsin Club for Growth, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, and Citizens for a Strong America supported Walker and fought the recall. It’s illegal for an elected official like Walker to coordinate with such groups. These groups also contributed considerable amounts of money to the four justices who voted to quell the investigation.
Big political money got Walker elected, and it also squashed an investigation set to determine if he broke the law.
Judges Dismiss Case and Demand All Evidence be Destroyed
Proclaiming their movement a war of ideas, conservatives began to mobilize resources for battle in the 1960s.
They built new institutional bastions; recruited, trained, and equipped their intellectual warriors; forged new weapons as cable television, the Internet, and other communications technologies evolved; and threw their resources into policy and political battles.
By 1984, moderate Republican John Saloma warned of a "major new presence in American politics." If left unchecked, he accurately predicted, "the new conservative labyrinth" would pull the nation's political center sharply to the right.
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Over the last two decades, (***note from poster - published in 1998***) the 12 have mounted an impressively coherent and concerted effort to shape public policy by undermining and ultimately redirecting what they regard as the institutional strongholds of modern American liberalism: academia, Congress, the judiciary, executive branch agencies, major media, religious institutions, and philanthropy itself.
They channeled some $80 million to right-wing policy institutions actively promoting an anti-government, unregulated markets agenda.
Another $89 million supported conservative scholars and academic programs, with $27 million targeted to recruit and train the next generation of right-wing leaders in conservative legal principles, free-market economics, political journalism and policy analysis.
originally posted by: buster2010
a reply to: ChiefD
I'd like to see him do prison time.
He should but lets face it he won't do any time. If anything this will get him the nomination.
originally posted by: BlueJacket
a reply to: AlaskanDad
Come on man...all of these dirty bast$rds do this...right left and otherwise...why bother posting such tripe...I mean look at hillary claiming a need for a BILLION dollar war chest and Jeb twice that....yet think what real good that money could do, vastly more than anything either one of them does in office.