Posted on 06/30/2015 4:45:08 PM PDT by gwgn02
Scott just went full RINO.
Scott Walker just dropped off my list of acceptable candidates. I like a lot about Governor Walker but people are policy. And his decision to hire Brad Dayspring, an unprincipled political operative who combines viciousness and incompetence in equal measures tells us a lot.
Congrats to @BDayspring on joining Team Walker! Huge get– one of the best communications strategists in the game. $$
— Alyssa Farah (@Alyssafarah) June 30, 2015
As we have documented here on RedState, Brad Dayspring was on of the loudest lying voices in the dishonest, dishonorable, and disreputable campaign the NRSC waged on behalf of the mildly profoundly senile, corrupt, and adulterous Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) 46%. In this campaign Dayspring was front and center in lying about challenger Chris McDaniel. In fact, the scorched earth campaign waged by Dayspring against McDaniel exceeded any campaign the NRSC has ever run against a Democrat.
Candidates who associate with white nationalists & segregationists events give away #GOP seats to Democrats. http://t.co/06KN8ittuG #MSsen — Brad Dayspring (@BDayspring) April 3, 2014
He was also instrumental in launching attacks on the challenger to Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) 70%, Dr. Milton Wolf. In Arkansas, he attacked the GOP nominee, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) 85% for attacking Democrat Mark Pryor.
Though there is no monetary teat, or other appendage, Dayspring won’t pull to extract cash, he routinely accuses conservatives, like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100%, and conservative organizations like the Family Research Council of putting fund raising ahead of principle– which to Dayspring equates with whatever Establishment corruptocrat he’s being paid to support. At a time when the best man for his wedding was under arrest for child pornography (and favoriting pornographic tweets) he accused Mark Levin and the Senate Conservative Fund of pay-to-play purchases of Levin’s book. This is simply another of the lies Dayspring has told, knowing them to be lies. And then he moves along to yet another lie.
If you want to read Dayspring’s sordid history in GOP politics, we have it here.
We need to move away from this revolving door of GOP establishment apparatchiks affixing themselves like barnacles to candidates. Walker is not the only candidate with this problem. The equally odious Austin Barbour is working on Rick Perry’s campaign.
There is no way I will support Governor Walker so long as Dayspring is affiliated in any way, no matter how tangential, with his campaign. This hiring of a casual liar, of a man who sets about to destroy the reputations of anyone he is told to attack speaks ill of Governor Walker. If he keeps Dayspring it also tells you that Governor Walker is no conservative. He has now become the designated establishment candidate. If Dayspring stays with the campaign, conservatives must oppose him no matter the cost.
I’ve been trying to find out if he’s ‘normal’, as opposed to most of the GOP ‘advisers’, who happen to be gay.
So far I can’t find anything about his personal life, either way.
Not surprising.
Given that the prosecutor is GOP and voted for Walker, I don’t think the investigation can be dismissed as not having some validity. That is only a small part of my concerns over Walker, I’m trying to take an unfiltered honest look at his policies, their results, and what his management has brought to Wisconsin.
There has been a lot of uncertainty about how some of the investigations that are ongoing are going to turn out. They may blow over or they may blow up. I just following events as best I can, as I do with all the candidates. I don’t know of any other way to determine if they are ready to lead the country but by taking an honest assessment of where they are now and how they got there.
>> Nobody other than political junkies is going to care about any of this inside baseball stuff <<
I wouldn’t be so sure that many of those junkies would care either. Looks to me like some third-rate blogger is straining at gnats here, just in order to fill a page.
He was, and still is, the top choice for Republicans...I will e-mail his website with this accusation, but I'd bet it is vastly overstated.
Either you have no idea of what you're talking about or............well I can't think of any other reason that you'd make that inane statement...
BUNK
He isn't even running yet....But will be a GREAT president.
Yeah, conservativejoy is wallowing around in lefty lies and the aftermath of demonrat political warfare. I’m beginning to wonder if she’s a paid troll for Hillary.
The John Doe was a fascist attack on Walker and after all these years He was not touched! Not Touched. The fascist prosecutor may be paying a big price in the future for his Jalvert like persecution of Walker.
http://watchdog.org/128037/civil-rights-john-doe-speech/
Give it up conservativejoy, you cannot spread your lies here unchallenged.
Walker and Cruz. By the time the show rolls around to NJ, the race will likely be decided. If not, my choice between them will be strategic.
-—Given that the prosecutor is GOP and voted for Walker, I don’t think the investigation can be dismissed as not having some validity.
Conservativejoy is simply presenting lies here.
The main force in the John Doe was the Milwaukee County DA who’s wife is a teacher and union steward.
The “lead prosecutor” that they hired for cover CLAIMS to be GOP but there he has held no office, has not been in the party structure. All we have is is statement that he votes Republican.
This is a recent revelation of the fascist lengths that the DEMOCRATS went to to stop the conservative gains in Wisconsin.
*****MADISON, Wis. – Democrat Milwaukee County prosecutors tapped the email and text communications of conservative activists as part of a five-year probe aimed at bringing down Republican Gov. Scott Walker, affidavits reviewed by Wisconsin Watchdog reveal.****
http://watchdog.org/226559/john-doe-spying-conservatives/
And “conservativejoy” joins their side by presenting information from their viewpoint. Way to go ‘conservativejoy’.
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Free Republic is here to make sure that nonsense like this has a big effect.
Walker has tipped his hand; RIP Walker!
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Brad Dayspring has fought against conservatives in the Senate, harder than the DNC has.
He also is the guy who tried to implicate Mark Levin, for allowing Senate Conservatives Fund to give a free copy of Liberty and Tyranny, with certain donation amounts to SCF.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3110138/posts
How utterly stupid.
I despise tHAD ENOUGH, but RedState is delusional.
That said, your premise of your attack is really out in left field. When planning a campaign (think war), you don't want to just employ strategists who want to go the way Obama treats our enemies - it's insane and detrimental.
You want all sorts of ideas so you can take the parts that suit you and ignore those that don't suit or which you consider "overkill".
I guess that when someone doesn't like someone as a candidate, real thought never enters their equations - they just twist and knee-jerk in order to suit their own selves even if their actions are akin to what they claim the one they're attacking may be preparing to do....
Dayspring is an establishment putz, but his job in the NRSC was to back Cochran. The other side was represented by Charles C. Johnson who is an even looser cannon than Daywpring. Chuck Johnson is right a lot but like Dayspring he is in it for himself. None of those shumcks has any core principles.
I like Walker too but this is pure nonsense!
yeah, he’s a bastard....and an idiot...
>>Dayspring is an establishment putz, but his job in the NRSC was to back Cochran ...None of those shumcks has any core principles.<<
I keep claiming that Walker is exceptionally astute when it comes to the political side of things, so here are two conclusions if you assume this was a smart political move (instead of simply using it as an excuse to dump on him):
1) Dayspring got Cochran elected. Clearly he was effective. Hiring him keeps him from being hired by an opponent. That said, I’ll be very surprised if Walker turns him loose on his GOP opponents to dig up dirt or, especially, to fabricate allegations about them.
2. However, assuming Hillary is the nominee, imagine the material Dayspring will have to work with. Seriously, if you’re looking for dirt to spread on a candidate, what better place to look than Hillary Clinton? You don’t even have to lie about any of it. Just make sure it gets past the MSM and into voters’ hands and minds.
And while I strongly suspect that Walker will observe Reagan’s 11th commandment, I also believe that he will have no reservations about going after the Democrat nominee. If that’s the case, this could be an excellent hire, rather than a bad one. Hire someone who will do the job with a vengeance. We may be “known by the company we keep,” but we’re not necessarily known by those we hire to get a job done.
Submitted by Brendan Fischer on May 1, 2015 - 9:26am Related Articles Scott Walker Dumped as Chair of the Jobs Agency He Created
Privatization Fail: Scott Walker’s WEDC in Full Meltdown Walker's Dark Money Allies Orchestrate Coup of the Courts
-- By Brendan Fischer and Mary Bottari Two career prosecutors--one a Republican, one a Democrat--just called Scott Walker a liar, and not a single national newspaper took notice.
The comments came after Walker, an unannounced candidate for president, used an appearance on an Iowa radio show to publicly attack a bipartisan criminal investigation into his campaign as a "political witch hunt" with the aim of "trying to intimidate people."
The Special Prosecutor leading the probe, Francis Schmitz--a Republican who voted for Walker in 2012--fired back, stating, "these recent allegations are patently false." "His description of the investigation as a 'political witch hunt' is offensive when he knows that the investigation was authorized by a bipartisan group of judges and is directed by a Republican Special Prosecutor appointed at the request of a bipartisan group of district attorneys," Schmitz said.
Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm, a Democrat whose office initiated the probe, added that, "Stripped of niceties, Mr. Schmitz is saying the governor is deliberately not telling the truth." Then, the prosecutors threw down the gauntlet. Schmitz called upon the Governor "to join me in seeking judicial approval" to release sealed documents "which would be responsive to the allegations that have been made." Chisholm agreed: "the truth is always a defense, so let’s get the truth out in a legal manner, not through lies, distortions and misrepresentations."
The public comments and challenge are remarkable from the usually-reserved career prosecutors, who until now have remained silent as their reputations have been dragged through the mud by Walker's allies.
The heated public exchange comes just as the Wisconsin Supreme Court is scheduled to take up a series of challenges to the probe, and as the U.S. Supreme Court considers granting an appeal of a federal lawsuit that the 7th Circuit rejected last year. And, the comments follow a National Review magazine article published online April 20 that savaged Chisholm and decried the probe as "the use of law enforcement as a political instrument, as a weapon to attempt to undo election results, shame opponents, and ruin lives."
Although the piece also repeated long-discredited allegations from Wisconsin's right-wing blogs, it was quickly picked up by the national right-wing echo chamber, including Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and the Wall Street Journal editorial board and trumpeted as a breakthrough "investigation." Yet the National Review article doesn't even mention the Republican prosecutor leading the probe, Francis Schmitz, nor does it touch on the evidence of corruption that gave rise to the bipartisan investigation.
As former Milwaukee District Attorney E Michael McCann told the Center for Media and Democracy: "If you've got the facts on your side, fight on the facts. If you've got the law on your side, fight on the law. If you've got neither, fight the DA."
Serious Allegations of Corruption Involving Walker
The current criminal investigation into Walker involves serious allegations that the governor and his campaign disregarded the state's campaign finance laws during the 2012 recall elections. Indeed, when Republican and Democratic District Attorneys petitioned for the investigation, Walker was already the highest-profile politician in modern Wisconsin history and a likely presidential contender.
Launching a criminal investigation into the most powerful political figure in the state could not have been an easy choice: these career prosecutors initiated the probe because they believed there was a strong legal and evidentiary basis for doing so, under Wisconsin's long-standing campaign finance laws. Republican prosecutors gathered evidence of Walker secretly raising millions of dollars for the supposedly "independent" nonprofit Wisconsin Club for Growth (WiCFG), with the express purpose of bypassing campaign finance disclosure laws.
Talking points prepared for the governor advised him to "stress that donations to WiCFG are not disclosed," to call the group "his 501c4," and to tell donors "that you can accept corporate contributions and it is not reported." And evidence suggests that Walker had a lot to hide.
There is the secret $700,000 donation to WiCFG from an out-of-state mining company, Gogebic Taconite, which at the time was pushing for an open-pit mine in Northern Wisconsin (and got it, after Walker won re-election).
And there's the undisclosed $1.5 million donation from billionaire John Menard, whose company Menard's Hardware was awarded $1.8 million in tax credits from the jobs agency Walker chairs, not to mention a drop-off in environmental law enforcement. WiCFG spent at least $9.1 million during the recall elections, and funneled at least $10 million more to other politically-active groups like Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, while reporting that it spent $0 on politics to the IRS. Since the beginning,
Walker and his allies have fought the probe not by denying coordination, but by claiming the rules don't apply to so-called "issue ads" that stop short of expressly telling viewers how to vote. But if the Walker campaign coordinated activities with third-party groups, state law is clear that the coordinated spending is not "independent," but legally considered an in-kind campaign contribution subject to reporting laws, regardless of whether it involved so-called "issue ads."
The same is true in federal elections, under federal law. In January of 2014, Judge Gregory Peterson--who had only recently been assigned the case--sided with arguments from Walker and WiCFG and quashed subpoenas issued in the probe, but just two weeks later stayed his own order, writing that the state's theory "is an arguable interpretation of the statutes" and asking that an appellate court resolve the dispute.
WiCFG and other Walker allies soon filed an array of lawsuits in state and federal court, and the probe has remained stalled ever since. Republican-Led Investigation Supported by "Credible, Hard Evidence" Although repeatedly portrayed as a "partisan witch hunt," the investigation involves five District Attorneys, from both the Republican and Democratic parties. It was authorized by both Republican and Democratic judges, including Judge James Daley, the GOP-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court earlier this year.
And it is led by Special Prosecutor Francis Schmitz. Schmitz started his legal career as a clerk for federal judge John Coffey, a Reagan appointee who the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel described as "an unyielding conservative." Schmitz worked for years as a federal prosecutor, receiving two awards from the U.S. Department of Justice, including the prestigious "U.S. Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service" from Republican Michael Mukasey.
Schmitz was on George W. Bush's shortlist to be named the chief federal prosecutor in the state as U.S. attorney, and he served in the U.S. Army and in the U.S. Army Reserve, retiring with the rank of Colonel. Wisconsin's Republican Attorney General, J.B. Van Hollen, was initially asked to lead the probe, but declined--not because he thought the investigation was legally suspect, but because of a possible conflict-of-interest, with Van Hollen acknowledging that “a campaign financing investigation… could foreseeably involve individuals with whom I have relationships.”
Van Hollen said the probe was better handled by the state's Government Accountability Board, which is a nonpartisan board of retired judges, from both parties, appointed by the governor and confirmed by the senate, and charged with interpreting and applying the state's campaign finance law. The Board unanimously approved its participation in the investigation.
Its current Chair Gerald Nichol--a former Republican elected official--has stated that the Board does "not take investigations lightly" and launched the probe after being presented with "credible, hard evidence" the law had been violated.
The investigation has been conducted under the state's "John Doe" statute, a proceeding similar to a grand jury but overseen by a judge. Former Milwaukee County District Attorney McCann, a Democrat who utilized the John Doe process to prosecute former State Senate Majority Leader Chuck Chvala (D-Madison) during the 2001-2002 Legislative Caucus Scandal, explained that"John Does" are particularly effective for investigating political corruption cases.
The alternative is to impanel a grand jury of 17 citizens for months on end, a costly and burdensome process rarely used in Wisconsin. Doug Haag, a career state prosecutor for 29 years, explained to the Center for Media and Democracy how the John Doe works. "It's the only vehicle other than a grand jury that allows a prosecutor to subpoena witnesses and compel testimony in the investigative stage," he said. While grand juries were common before the 1970s they fell out of use in more recent years and the John Doe process is now used commonly for a variety of crimes. Haag is a "very strong supporter" of the John Doe law as currently constituted.
"At this point it would be very cumbersome to impanel a grand jury when in fact you can get the same information with a single judge, compel testimony and protect the identity of witnesses before the John Doe," Haag said. The John Doe statute allows for a judge to order that the investigation be conducted in secret, which applies not only to prosecutors, but also to the targets of the investigation. The duration of the gag orders raise First Amendment concerns, yet have long been part of the standard operating procedure for John Doe investigations, including political corruption investigations into both Democrats and Republicans.
Prosecutors argue that secrecy is needed to encourage cooperation by people reluctant to testify against powerful individuals, as well as to protect the reputation of the targets while the investigation is in a pre-charge state, since many John Does are closed without charges. In commencing this John Doe probe, Republican prosecutors in Dodge (PDF) and Columbia (PDF) counties found "evidence that criminal violations" of the state's campaign finance laws had occurred and, like their Democratic counterparts, asked that the probe be conducted under a secrecy order, given that "the individuals involved in this investigation are well-placed political operatives closely tied with the current Governor of the State of Wisconsin." Making the investigation public, they wrote in their court filings, "would generate substantial publicity," which could result in the destruction of evidence and damage reputations before criminal charges were filed.
Yet soon after the first subpoenas were issued in the probe, Wisconsin Club for Growth director Eric O'Keefe spoke with the Wall Street Journal editorial board, and the investigation has been subject to selective leaks ever since. With the case now before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, prosecutors are asking that more documents be unsealed, so - See more at:
As expected you link to a lefty site. Why am I not surprised?
Yes, I am referring to Francis Schmitz who PROFESSES to be a Republican but has not held office or been a member of the party. It was obviously of great disinformation value for John Chisolm the Milwaukee DA and his co-conspirators in the Government Accountability Board.
It matters not who he clerked for when he graduated, his career bespeaks a statist who understands the power of the state.
The lefty site you quote spews plenty of innuendo, all refuted. But Chisolm and Schmitz couldn’t prove ANY of it during FIVE LONG YEARS of secret, fascist investigations with access to every email that Walker and his staff ever sent!!.
This in particular is laughable.....believed there was a strong legal and evidentiary basis for doing so, under Wisconsin’s long-standing campaign finance laws
The first two judges that reviewed his theory of prosecution said this was NONSENSE.
Schmitz in particular abused if prosecutorial office when he
...alleged, and a variety of venues credulously repeated, that Gov. Scott Walker was at the center of a “criminal scheme” involving the illegal coordination of conservative groups and fundraisers when he faced a recall election in 2011-2012. ...
Special prosecutor Francis Schmitz wrote that Walker was involved in “criminal violations of multiple elections laws, including violations of Filing a False Campaign Report or Statement and Conspiracy to File a False Campaign Report or Statement.”
BUT HE (OR RATHER HIS LAWYER) HAD TO RETRACT THIS
.....On Thursday, however, he seemed to be changing his tune:
“Gov. Scott Walker has not been a target of the John Doe investigation into alleged illegal campaign finance coordination, an attorney for the special prosecutor overseeing the probe said Thursday,” The Wisconsin State Journal reported.
Randall Crocker, the lawyer for special prosecutor Francis Schmitz, noted the investigation has been halted, saying, “At the time the investigation was halted, Governor Walker was not a target of the investigation. At no time has he been served with a subpoena.”
Hmm.. why did his lawyer have to make this statement one wonders.
Does today’s announcement have anything to do with it?
http://www.rightwisconsin.com/perspectives/Cindy-Archer-Sues-DA-John-Chisholm—311185991.html
You will increasingly find posting lefty lies here is unrewarding.
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