Group Focused on Goverment Ethics Puts Scott Walker on List of “Worst Governors in America”

[hue]

http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/07/12189/group-focused-goverment-ethics-puts-scott-walker-list-%E2%80%9Cworst-governors-america%E2%80%9D

This week, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a non-profit government watchdog group, released a report -- "The Worst Governors in America," and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker came in sixth in the top category. The report has an amusing circus theme and dubs Walker a "Ringmaster," but it is heavily documented and footnoted to reliable sources and primary documents. The criteria CREW used when assessing the nation's governors were the following: corruption, transparency, partisan politics, pressuring public officials, cronyism, self-enrichment, scandal and mismanagement.

Walker made the list of most ethically challenged public officials due to poor marks in several categories, including cronyism, scandal, mismanagement and excessive partisanship. The report reviews his promotion of the Koch Brothers' agenda -- the Kochs are some of his biggest campaign donors. He also got dinged for the extensive "John Doe" investigation of illegal activity that took place during his time as Milwaukee County Executive and during the gubernatorial race which resulted in the criminal convictions of several of his former staff members. And, his mismanagement of the national mortgage settlement funds and creation of the privatized and highly dysfunctional Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, which lost track of some $12 million in taxpayer funds, helped bump him to the number six spot in the list.

*************************

I know this news is a little old, but had to post it as it's a good synopsis.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. I'm sure he'll do better next time.

I'm putting money on him to win, place or show.