WI taxpayers to pay $30,000 to settle lawsuit after @GOP Rep Dale Kooyenga stole a protester's sign.

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why is heck does this vile man not have to pay this money from his own wallet!!

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Wisconsin taxpayers to pay $30,000 to settle lawsuit after #Republican Rep. Dale Kooyenga took a protester's sign https://jsonl.in/2pZdbEm #wipolitics



Wisconsin taxpayers to pay $30,000 to settle lawsuit after Rep. Dale Kooyenga took a protester's sign



Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 2:16 p.m. CT April 2, 2018 | Updated 3:53 p.m. CT April 2, 2018
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Kooyenga, a Brookfield Republican now running for the state Senate, said in a statement he signed off on the settlement because he did not want to “incur the costs of a prolonged legal battle, or further divert time or energy from the actual public policy priorities facing our state.”
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"We are pleased with the settlement because it is an acknowledgement by Rep. Kooyenga that he violated the Eighth Commandment — thou shalt not steal," Pines said.

In May, Donald Johnson of Madison placed a sign in the Capitol that criticized Republican President Donald Trump, without naming him, as "corrupt" and "a serial groper." It said Republicans backed the president, "we the people be damned."

Johnson had a state permit to display the sign in the Capitol and he said he taped a copy of it to the back of the sign.

That month, Kooyenga removed the sign and put it in his office because he thought it was inappropriate. After Johnson complained about the missing sign, the Capitol Police saw on security video that Kooyenga had taken the sign and recovered it from him.
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In the lawsuit, the two sides reached an agreement that the video would not be made public because of the administration's concerns that doing so could reveal the location of hidden cameras in the Capitol. Pines said he reached the settlement before seeing the video and believed the state should have to release the video under the state's open records law.

"The idea it interferes with the security of the Capitol is really quite preposterous," Pines said.
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1. Gee, I hope this doesn't hurt Kooyenga's election chances in November

But you know it would be just like the Democrats to make a big deal out of this, and make Kooyenga look like a thin-skinned, ultra-petty little thief with itchy, twitchy fingers who costs the Wisconsin taxpayers thousands of dollars to support his evil impulses.

So don't do that, Democrats! It would be really unfair even if it is completely truthful, which it is.

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2. it May not be a bad thing

a lot of WI taxpayers are Wanker and Chump voters.