Congratulations Staffer, Have Cigar! You're gonna go far.
Especially if the Koch Brothers continue their buying elections way ...
Emails link Scott Walker to secret email system
by Patrick Marley, Daniel Bice, Bill Glauber and Kevin Crowe of the Journal Sentinel, jsonline.com -- Feb. 19, 2014
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Walker used his campaign email to communicate with his county aides, who frequently used their own private email accounts when interacting with Walker or his campaign -- all of which would shield their discussions from the public.
"Consider yourself now in the 'inner circle,'" Walker's administration director, Cynthia Archer, wrote to Walker aide Kelly Rindfleisch just after the two exchanged a text message in March 2010.
"I use this private account quite a bit to communicate with SKW [Scott Kevin Walker] and Nardelli. You should be sure you check it throughout the day," she wrote, referring to Walker by his initials and to Walker's then-chief of staff, Tom Nardelli.
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So what's the problem? Walker has a 'non-public' email system -- it probably makes his "Inner Circle" staffers 'more efficient',
Right?
Well maybe, except for one small problem -- It's Illegal.
How A News Coalition Dug Up Scott Walker's Email Secrets
by Joe Strupp, mediamatters.org -- Feb 20, 2014
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The emails and hundreds of court documents made public under court order Wednesday came about after a five-month battle in which several news outlets, led by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, joined forces to demand access to public records.
The emails, including those from private accounts, revealed that some of Walker's staff were discussing and illegally performing campaign work on county time and in county offices in 2009 and 2010. They were discovered through a Milwaukee County District Attorney investigation dating back to 2010 that has already resulted in the convictions of six county staffers.
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Public Workers
cannot do doing Private Campaigning, on the Public's dime.
Period!
End of Story ... except for maybe, who authorized this?
Hello Walker Insiders, you're gonna go far -- that is if the DA doesn't get you first.
Good Luck.
Gov. Walker On Hot Seat After Emails Show Illegal Dealing By Aides
by John Parkinson, abcnews.go.com -- Feb 20, 2014
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That three-year investigation, now known as John Doe I, resulted in convictions of six individuals tied to Walker, including two former deputy chiefs of staff. Although no criminal charges were filed against Walker, his political opponents believe he knew about the clandestine email system and turned a blind eye to illegal comingling of campaign and county resources.
Thousands of emails released today belonged to Kelly Rindfleisch, a former Walker deputy chief of staff who pled guilty to misconduct for performing political work for a lieutenant governor candidate on taxpayer time. The emails are from her private Gmail account, which she set up in Feb. 2010. Google later provided copies of the email to investigators.
Documents also show Fran McLaughlin, Walker’s former spokeswoman from his time as county executive, sent a majority of her campaign and political emails during regular work hours to Milwaukee public officials, including some that copied Walker, using personal email accounts.
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Only in Scott Walker's privatized America can the efforts of Public Workers be so casually redirected towards carrying out
Koch-funded electioneering business.
And Scott still doesn't know what the problem is! Afterall David said it was A-OK.