Media hones in on Koch brothers and Walker's proposal to sell state energy plants

A well painted article, a wonderful summation with lots of great links.


'Tis an information Smorgasbord.


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The Koch brothers' political action committee gave Walker $43,000, his campaign's second highest donation, and helped to fund a multi-million dollar attack ad campaign against his opponent, according to pieces in Mother Jones and other publications. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett lost by five points.

And then this bill comes out and opens the door to the privatization of the state's power plants.

Adding to this interesting political snarl is the fact that the guy Walker put in charge of the office that will oversee these potential power plant sales -- though some people worry they will be more of giveaways than sales -- is Jeff Plale. Remember him? He is one of the two Democratic senators who at the very last minute defected from the Democratic ranks to vote against state employee contracts last fall.

Around a month later, Walker handed the former South Milwaukee Democratic legislator the $90,000 post as the administrator of the Department of Administration's Division of Facilities. And now he is busy defending the administration's move to sell off the state's power plants as no big deal.


http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_f3c998a8-3ebd-11e0-9ce0-001cc4c002e0.html

Jail Time...

Reporting the news has an honorable agenda built in. This happens when people with integrity do the job.

Get the Koch Brothers......sic 'em.

I am glad the mainstream media is covering the connection between the governor in Wisconsin and the Koch brothers, who gave $15,000 to his campaign.

Welcome to DU :hi:

Republicons just don't do integrity or honor, do they?

About time

letters to the editor in your local newspapers. You are posting there, people, aren't you?

Is it too much to hope that the corporate media might start doing their actual job?

Even for someone that only pretends to be a Koch...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x487981

I heard that Walker wanted to ram the bill through in a week. If not for the 14 Dems leaving the state and slowing things down, this gem might have gone unnoticed.

When I learned of this a couple days ago I wasn't sure it would get any traction at all.

How much is enough?

Hopefully, we're about to find out...