Thursday, August 13, 2015

O Yeah, That Guy!

By Jeff Simpson

Scott Walker denied that politics played any part in his decision to hand the Bucks owners almost $500 million Wisconsin taxpayer dollars!


Walker noted in the interview that one of two major new owners of the Bucks, Marc Lasry, is a “major bundler” of contributions for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Lasry is “putting in $100 million,” Walker said.
“The previous owner, who is putting in $100 million, is a 25-year Senate Democrat (Herb Kohl),” Walker also noted.
“So, it has nothing to do with politics. That’s just ridiculous,” Walker said. “If it was about politics, there is no way I would do this deal. I don’t know the owners. I don’t care about the primary owners. I care about the taxpayers.”

The problem with that statement?  Like many of Scotty's statements is flat out "pants on fire":

A minority owner of the team is Wisconsin business executive Jon Hammes, a longtime Walker supporter and a current co-chair of Walker’s presidential fundraising committee. According to the New York Times, a company registered to one of Hammes’ family members donated $150,000 in May to a super PAC supporting Walker.


12 comments:

  1. Or you could say it was bipartisan, or that the politics was a wash (leaving aside the preponderance of Democratic money). But haters got to hate.

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    1. Thats interesting because that is exactly the word that our new DPW chair Martha Laning used to describe it. I think corrosive is a better word. How can we stand up in public and talk about corporate welfare and trickle down economics when we have 14 Dems and our newest party "Progressive" leader endorsing THIS as a positive thing. maybe we really are "all alike"...

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  2. Frankly, I'm in favor of the new stadium but don't want to argue that. I am wondering ... was the Hammes' contribution made after Vos whined that perhaps the prospective new owners should be talking to the party in power. Then it was certainly political.

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    1. That's the line I remember as well. Makes you wonder if Walker wasn't the only guy Hammes and the MMAC were paying off on this deal

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    4. Or to riff on Jake's comment- "Makes you wonder if Walker wasn't the only guy Hammes and the MMAC were playing off on this deal"

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  3. Eh - this was bipartisan socialism. In the end Walker will take the most heat for this. At least 6 media sights are calling him out for cutting education but funding this arena. This will come up again. But we all know Walker can be very vindictive.

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  4. "But we all know Walker can be very vindictive."

    Scott Walker's treatment of people on his enemies list (including everyone who signed the recall petition) makes Chris Christie's Washington Bridge lane-shutdown revenge stunt look positively forgiving by contrast.

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    1. Could you be troubled to provide examples?

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    2. What about the student appt to the board of regents? Or the people denied entry / kicked out at Walker's "announcement"?

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