The specifics of Scott Walker’s aides’ campaign-related malfeasance — SecretRouterGate? PrivateNetworkGate? — don’t exactly trip off the tongue:
Even as Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin looks ahead to 2016 and a possible presidential bid, his political past as Milwaukee County executive has come back to haunt him.
A release of 27,000 emails and hundreds of court documents on Wednesday portrays Mr. Walker, a Republican, as having presided over an office where aides used personal computers and email to conceal that they were mixing government and campaign business. The conduct of campaign work on government time led to the criminal convictions of two aides and several others. Mr. Walker, who has for years denied wrongdoing, was never charged….
On the other hand, details like this are considerably more attention-getting:
The dump of 27,000 emails related to investigations swirling around Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has resulted in the shocking revelation that he employed your crazy racist Uncle Norval, the one with the AOL address who makes everyone uncomfortable on Thanksgiving. Among the cache, which Walker’s staff forwarded using personal email addresses, a failed attempt to avoid detection, is one depicting President Obama as an “acorn cap with the nut still attached,” and also smoking a cigarette, like evil people do. The others are worse, and even less funny!…
This is, of course, not the first time GOP officeholders have manage to spoil a sweet gig by letting their inner bigot off the chain. Is it really so necessary to share lulz beginning “This morning I went to sign my dogs up for welfare… “ during company hours, on (sekrit) civil-service networks? Well, maybe — if you consider such lulz as in-group identifiers, a means of proving that one hates all the right enemies…