Wisconsin Capitol Police Chief David Erwin must resign due to blatant police brutality after 11.7% W

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http://scottwalkerwatch.com/2013/08/26/wisconsin-capitol-police-chief-david-erwin-must-resign-due-to-blatant-police-brutality-after-11-7-walker-pay-raise/

Wisconsin Capitol Police Chief David Erwin must resign due to blatant police brutality after 11.7% Walker pay raise

Scott Walker is too busy in other states obediently serving his billionaire-class corporate welfare masters for campaign money to probably even care what’s going on in what he must think is His Palace. That’s right, Wisconsin’s most divisive governor ever is out of state. But he sure does love giving out tax breaks to his political cronies and contributors while slashing programs for education, health, senior services and whatever else his American Legislative Exchange Council funded and well-oiled Republican House and Senate deliver to him. He must love what Madison Capitol Police Chief is doing with the completely unconstitutional and costly crackdown in the Capitol Rotunda that he found it appropriate to give him an 11.7% raise through some fancy monkey business that now faces a possible audit.

Madison —Twenty-one Democratic lawmakers want auditors to look into the circumstances surrounding the 11.7% pay increase that Gov. Walker’s administration gave to the Capitol Police chief earlier this year.

The legislators sent a letter to the co-chairs of the Joint Audit Committee, Sen. Rob Cowles (R-Allouez) and Rep. Samantha Kerkman (R-Powers Lake), requesting that the non-partisan Legislative Audit Bureau look into the raise, part of which was retroactive.

Gov. Scott Walker’s administration disputed Monday that it violated any state personnel rules in awarding sizable pay raises to Capitol Police Chief Dave Erwin and his top deputy after moving the pair on paper to phantom jobs for two weeks and then back to their real posts.

Erwin — who has overseen a crackdown on Walker protesters at the statehouse, including a very physical arrest of one vocal demonstrator Monday — received an overall salary increase of $11,680 a year, with the first $720 of that coming retroactively.

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1. Hey, suppressing free speech by arresting grandmothers and little kids is hard work!

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2. How utterly disgusting Police Chief Dave Erwin & Co. are!! They have no conscience!

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3. Kerkman?

Really? I hate to say it, but she has become kinda useful lately. In the past she has been really partisan, but lately she has been doing more bipartisan stuff. I guess I may have to give her some credit.