Governor Walker has fallen in with the wrong crowd:
Another major shoe has dropped in the John Doe investigation of Gov.Scott Walker’s current and former aides. On Tuesday, authorities arrested Andrew P. Jensen Jr., a commercial real estate broker with Boerke Co. and a past president of theCommercial Association of Realtors-Wisconsin. Fran McLaughlin, spokesman for Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr., confirmed that Jensen was behind bars Tuesday night. But McLaughlin said no one had filed a criminal complaint against the 50-year-old Milwaukee resident.
The sheriff’s website states that charges are pending against Jensen.
Jensen was a minor contributor to Walker’s gubernatorial campaign, donating $850. Boerke Co. employees gave a total of $12,150. Insiders told No Quarter that he was arrested after refusing to cooperate with the long-running John Doe investigation by Milwaukee County prosecutors.
Prosecutors launched the investigation in May 2010 – around the time Darlene Wink left her county job as Walker’s constituent services coordinator. She quit shortly after admitting that she had frequently posted political comments online on Journal Sentinel stories and blogs while on the county clock. Authorities later took her work computer and executed a search warrant of her home in August 2010. They also took the work computer of Tim Russell, a former Walker campaign staffer who was then working as county housing director.
Sources have told the Journal Sentinel that the probe, which initially looked at campaign activity by Walker staffers, has moved in a number of directions since then.
Since then, No Quarter reported that Walker’s current spokesman, Cullen Werwie, who worked on the governor’s campaign, was given immunity to testify in the John Doe probe. Also receiving immunity was Republican operative Rose Ann Dieck.
More recently, a grant of immunity was considered for an unnamed person about four or five weeks ago, according to former Appeals Judge Neal Nettesheim, who is overseeing the investigation. The person sought to have the immunity grant performed in secret, but Nettesheim determined it had to be done in open court. The person then appealed.
The District 1 Court of Appeals denied the request to rule that the immunity hearing be held in secret, saying the unnamed person had not shown that Nettesheim had a plain legal duty to do so. Quoting a past Supreme Court decision, the three-judge panel wrote, “It is clear the policy is that the public ought to know who is given immunity from prosecution.”
Walker has maintained that he is not concerned about the investigation because he has followed the high standards given to him by his parents.
Doug Danger
He’s upped his standards, Wisconsin, so Governor Walker says “Up Yours!”
Maude
Walker’s line about his parents is truly pathetic. Did he suck his thumb?
dmsilev
“My mommy said it was OK” usually stops applying after age 10ish. How long until Walker says that his opponents have cooties?
amk
Way to trash your own parents, walker.
Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937
I don’t think I blamed my parents for my messes even when I was a child.
JGabriel
Who were his parents? Bonnie and Clyde?
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Origuy
Somehow I doubt that Walker’s parents told him about not accepting illegal campaign contributions. They certainly didn’t teach him about sharing with others.
kd bart
Too bad they closed the after school Teen Center due to budget cuts.
ericblair
@JGabriel:
I think he means high standards for hiding the evidence.
The Moar You Know
Admissions like this are almost always followed by the accused being found hanging dead in their jail cell.
Seriously, that’s pretty weird and doesn’t say much for his mental stability.
amk
OT
“An Afghan woman jailed for adultery after a relative raped her has been freed, her lawyer has told the BBC.
The woman, known only as Gulnaz, was released on the orders of President Hamid Karzai, who pardoned her earlier this month.
Her lawyer told the BBC that she was released without precondition, dispelling fears that she may have to marry her attacker.
The case drew international attention to the plight of many Afghan women.
Gulnaz – who was sentenced to 12 years in prison after reporting that she had been raped by her cousin’s husband – recently gave birth in jail to a daughter.
Her lawyer, Kimberley Motley, told the BBC that she was healthy and happy to be released.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/world-asia-16179236
Veritas
Walker will have something next year the Democrat challengers won’t have–loads and loads of cool hard cash, thanks to the Koch Brothers and Citizens United.
RealityCheck
Face
The blog No Quarter, run by that ex-CIA clown?
jacy
Walker forgot to mention his mother was a syphilitic hyena and his father was a pirate. (No offense to hyenas and/or pirates)
Djur
@Face: No, it’s the name of the site that Kay linked to. Nothing to do with ol’ Flowbee.
amk
@Veritas: All that cash ain’t helping you, willard. Have had any $10 K bets lately ?
Dreggas
@amk:
Republicans can rejoice, the mother was forced to carry the baby to term. //
Snark aside that is progress in some regard. Hopefully it will continue.
gbear
@Veritas: Money’s no good when absolutely everyone hates your guts. Just ask Mitt…
Tractarian
Blogging
proamateur tip:It is not OK to compose a blog post with 9 original words and 414 blockquoted ones.
Especially on a blog with multiple front-page authors.
handsmile
The Mommy ‘n Daddy defense! Another shining moral lesson from the “Family Values” party. What an infant.
No doubt another maxim from Mama Walker: alway accept the phone calls from that nice Mr. Koch.
Monkey Business
@Veritas: Why on Earth would you brag that an immensely unpopular governor would have access to unlimited campaign cash thanks to a pair of ultra-wealthy industrialist libertarian brothers (who were not inconsequently born on third and think they hit a triple) and the most odious ruling issued from the Supreme Court since Plessy Vs. Ferguson?
More importantly, what’s going to happen to guys like Kasich, Scott, etc. when they come up for re-election? Their approval numbers are absolute dogshit.
SIA
@Tractarian: Yeah?! Sez you. Fool.
Thoughtcrime
@Veritas:
Legal defense fund?
agrippa
This is further evidence, for me, that there is something not quite right about Walker. he seems, to me, to fit the old line “the elevator does not go to the top floor”.
amk
@Thoughtcrime: Ding, ding, ding. Bitch slap for the troll.
liberal
@Veritas:
That’s only fitting, since the Republicans represent the interests of the rich, who mostly got that way by government-granted privileges.
gaz
@amk: He’s used to it.
Veritas wanders around all day in a daze with my 5 finger imprint all throbbing and prominent on the left side of his face.
piratedan
@jacy: hey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
amk
@Veritas: You will enjoy this.
Latest PPP on VA
50 to 43 over neuter, 48-42 over willard
Schlemizel
@Tractarian:
What, did you get a poppy seed stuck under your dentures this morning?
The post seems much more interesting, on point & useful than your comment
Chyron HR
@amk:
But, but Newt and Mitt have the moneys! The moneys buy the elections! That there is gen-u-wine Republican-style democracy in action!
Steeplejack
Sorry to get my pedantic on, but this has been bugging me since I first saw this story this morning.
As a former newspaper reporter and copyeditor, I felt my skin crawl when I read this. It’s just wrong on so many levels. How many shoes are there? How do we tell the major ones from the minor?
The whole point of the trope is that something has happened and now potentially one other thing has happened or is about to happen. It’s not an unending series, and there aren’t gradations of importance. I feel like I’m reading something written by the cast of Friends. And not in a good way.
And, lest you think I’m overreacting, let me just say that this way lies lulspeak and “This is the news from Samara Morgan.”
/pedantic rant off
kideni
He’s also invoked being an Eagle Scout as evidence of his virtue (though there’s actually some question about whether he’s lying about even that; and regardless, I grew up in a family heavily involved in the Boy Scouts, so I know full well that being an Eagle Scout=/virtuous: some are, some aren’t).
Walker really is a creep. There’s a great video from a couple of local activists, videographer Arthur and Occupy Madison’s Mary Jo, managed to get in to the annual neighborhood holiday party at the governor’s mansion, and they thanked him for bringing Wisconsin together and for helping to spark the Occupy movement. I don’t think Walker hears a thing they say (although the blond woman next to him and the man next to her sure understands).
Catsy
@Tractarian: What is the acceptable ratio of quote to original content?
amk
@Steeplejack: What’s wrong with the writing on Friends ?
Veritas
@amk:
PPP is a Democrat Pollster. yawn.
amk
@Veritas: LOL. You poor thang.
Steeplejack
@amk:
I didn’t say there was anything wrong with the writing on Friends. What I said was that it sounded like a news story written by a character on Friends, i.e., the way they talk.
kay
@Veritas:
Why is Romney doing so poorly among Republicans, though? You’re a Republican, and a supporter. What’s the problem? Is he just misunderstood?
amk
@Steeplejack: I get it. Totally. :)
gaz
I wonder what is happening to the cars in wisconsin that have a rather unfortunate “Walker 2010” bumper sticker on them.
I doubt there’s a pristine, unkeyed paint job on any one of them.
amk
@kay: May be this could be it.
“I’m just going by my gut. I shook the guy’s hand, looked him in the eye and he has no soul. I don’t see a conviction. I don’t see a leader. I feel like I’m talking to a robot. I’ve talked to all the other candidates and none of them gave me the vibe that Gingrich did. He is not a guy you want to go have a beer with,”
– Judd Saul, a Tea Party member and GOP activist from Black Hawk County.
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/
Steeplejack
@amk:
Finally. Seriously, dude.
rikryah
hee hee hee
hee hee hee
gaz
@amk:
I guess he figures if I can say Rasmussen is not credible, he thinks he’ll get some traction from the same argument about PPP.
It’s rather pathetic.
John, please buy better trolls.
kay
@amk:
Hysterical. I’d love to talk to people right after they meet Romney.
“So. What’s he like?”
Chris
@amk:
ROFLCOPTER. Was he making a Bush/Putin reference?
PeakVT
Walker might as well have uttered the Chewbacca defense.
kay
@amk:
Shit, that was GINGRICH. He’s talking about Gingrich, not Romney.
They’re all robots, then. The GOP has a (larger) robot problem.
Also, conservative say that seriously? That they want to have a beer with the candidate? That’s seriously the Presidential measure? I thought that was a joke about conservatives told by liberals. It’s true!
dww44
@Tractarian: I genuinely don’t think Kay has to worry about her front-page status at this blog being usurped. You must not be familiar with her work, not only here but her ongoing grassroots activism in Ohio on real issues that matter. Kay is a contributor.
amk
@kay: Also. Too.
dollared
Walker did learn his standards from his parents. At the Nicollet Country Club. “If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying hard enough.”
priscianusjr
@Dreggas:
Scamp Dog
@kay:
Actually, I think of it more as a media Villager thing than something actual voters think about. But what do you know, there goes somebody actually using that to help them decide…
buckyblue
@amk: Not many people raise their kids to be incompetent douche bags, but to each their own.
brantl
Time to start investigating the parents, then. They gave birth to Satan, there’s bound to be something else illegal that they did.