The people over at Mother Jones are running those brains about the situation that Governor Walker has stepped into. Now the question is did he break the law.
In his conversation, Walker says that GOP lawmakers in "swing areas" will need support for their decision to back Walker's controversial budget repair bill, which would cut collective bargaining rights for public-sector unions, among other changes. Walker appears to hint that the fake David Koch could be the one to provide that outside support to those swing-district Republicans. Here's the full exchange:Gov. Walker: "After this in some of the coming days and weeks ahead, particularly in some of these more swing areas, a lot of these guys are going to need, they don’t need initially ads for them, but they’re going to need a message out. Reinforcing why this was a good thing to do for the economy, a good thing to do for the state. So to the extent that message is out over and over again is certainly a good thing."
Ian Murphy (pretending to be David Koch): "Right, right. We’ll back you any way we can."
"If Wisconsin law forbids coordination with political donors similar to federal law, Gov. Scott Walker is not just in political trouble, but in legal hot water," said David Donnelly, national campaigns director for the Public Campaign Action Fund.
I found it fascinating in the conversation how Governor Walker intended to use ethics violations to pursue his Democratic counterparts. If they are taking a ham sandwich from a union they would face possible charges, oh and goodbye Mr. Koch I’d love to come out to Cali and get some of that Justice Thomas, Scalia, Palm Springs junket vibe, but now it looks like we are truly veering into some serious ish here.
Is there a lawyer in the house that knows Wisconsin law?
