Monday, August 12, 2013

Silence Is Golden

It's common knowledge that Scott Walker is a strong believer in quid pro quo.

Lobbyists - or at least their sons - get high paying, cushy jobs, regardless of whether they are qualified.

Disgraced politicians also get high-paying, cushy state jobs, even the Democratic ones.

So it's no surprise that Walker's top aide at the county, Cindy Archer, would get a lot of golden opportunities.

After Walkergate started getting people's attention when the authorities raided her home, confiscating a computer and boxes of papers, we learned that Archer wasn't above politicking while at work:
Archer was Walker's Director of Administration at Milwaukee County. We have already known for some time that Archer was in contact with Walker's campaign and was developing strategies on how to deal with events and issues that would paint Walker in a bad light. In other words, she was part of the damage control team. Walker rewarded her with jobs in the state, including lucrative pay raises...
Stemming from the upcoming case regarding the tragedy at O'Donnell Park where 15 year old Jarred Kellner was killed when a facade fell on him, we see tat Archer's involvement in the campaign was much deeper.

However, when it came to be time for Archer to meet with the DA in the Walkergate investigation, she apparently gave up nothing and was not charged with any of her apparently crimes.  Of course, it was easier for her to stay mum when the prosecutors had no leverage on her, thanks to the Walker-funded legal defense of Kelly Rindfleisch.

Because of her silence, Archer has been rewarded with her third high-paying state job, the second one in six-digits:
Cindy Archer, a key cabinet member on Walker's county staff, is set to start a new six-figure job with the state on Monday.

Archer — who has bounced around the Walker administration for the past 21/2 years — beat out more than two dozen other candidates to be named an administrative services director at the state Public Defender's Office. She will be paid $101,510 a year.
Walker and his administration is, of course, denying that there was any finagling in Archer getting this job. Yeah, and he also said that he wasn't John Doe.

But I can't help but notice the irony of the fact that Archer is getting paid richly for working for the Public Defender's Office, the one area of the state that she should be a client, not in the hierarchy.

18 comments:

  1. administrative services director at the state Public Defender's Office

    How frigging ironic!

    If Walker and his gang had public defenders instead of the high priced lawyers paid from Walker's campaign fund, all of them would be making little ones out of big ones.

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  2. You're slipping. No videos. No cartoons. Even the hate felt routine. I dunno? While reading this I didn't feel like you were truely sh*tting tacs over some back page hire.

    Happy birthday, btw.

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    1. Did you ever think you would grow up to become an ardent supporter of a corrupt politician? How does it feel? Do you feel proud?

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    2. Those with no pride feel no shame, Anon 5:37. And that characteristic defines the Walker Pom-Pom wavers.

      Of course, maybe Archer isn't corrupt, and maybe neither is Walker. Guess we should have the John Doe testimony released and see for ourselves, right?

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    3. I never mentioned a politician. You're putting the hate before the horse.

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    4. Don’t you hate it when Wisconsin Republicans hatefully call public school teachers “thugs?” Don’t you hate it when Walker pays off his cronies with jobs that pay far more than the predecessor in that position? Besides Archer, there is Randy Hopper’s mistress who did not even have to apply for her state job. This is not good government.

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  3. It makes me wonder if she got a $101,500 gig for keeping her mouth shut, what Walker's BFF Russell will get when he's sprung from the big house. Maybe he'll be Walker's Vice Presidential pick.

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  4. What's next, Tim Russell as the head of the state prison system?

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  5. All I have to say, is that there will still be people voting for Walker.

    They are the ones with no shame.

    Walker does not get elected with out votes. period.

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    1. I refuse to believe Walker got the majority of votes in the recall election. Once again the exit polls told a very different story than the official results - a story that was completely ignored by the very press that is supposed to be the watchdog of the people against tyranny in government. And don't hold your breath waiting for the mainstream media to carry that ball in any obvious future instances where a Republican is "elected" by Diebold.

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  6. If Russell were appointed to head the prison system it would be a first for the Walker administration. Russell would actually have first hand experience in the department that he is chosen to lead.

    Unfortunately it would be from on the wrong side of the bars.

    But considering the people that governor Skippy choses to associate with what would you expect?

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    1. That might actually be a good thing, for a former prisoner to be in charge.

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  7. This really makes me angry. This woman was paid to do nothing for months as she hid under the radar on "leave" and gets a promotion to lead an organization she knows nothing about again! What was she hiding while she got paid to do nothing? Talk about government hand outs! The Walker apologists clearly have Walker Stockholm Syndrome, they love and protect their abuser who makes them believe everyone else is the enemy. He beats them emotionally, alienates them from those with sense, steals money from them while pretending he is giving it to them, and basically pisses on them and tells them it is raining. This Walker Stockholm Syndrome is really pathetic, he is clearly picking on the politically disabled.

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  8. I had heard she was ill.

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  9. How about the weak one, being the DA, that could not prove anything.

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    1. beyond a shadow of a doubt, that is. And that's why the investigation ended. It doesn't mean Walker was innocent. If nothing else, the investigation proved Walker was an inept County Executive; otherwise, how could all that corruption have happened on his watch? (Unless of course he WAS complicit.)

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  10. The first principle of Walkerism: No crime goes unrewarded.

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