At 7:18 PM last night, Dan Bice had big news he just had to publish, "Walker's office stonewalled DA inquiry, record shows."
Bice, union member and "willing partner" of Tom Barrett's campaign, has remarkable timing, doesn't he?
Amazing that roughly an hour and a half before the live televised debate between Governor Scott Walker and Barrett, Bice would drop a new tidbit, more John Doe fodder for his man, Tom.
Bice writes:
Milwaukee County prosecutors opened the secret John Doe criminal investigation more than two years ago after being stonewalled by Gov. Scott Walker's office when he was county executive, according to a newly released record.
The document appears to cast doubt on some of Walker's claims about his role in launching and cooperating with the investigation.
On May 5, 2010, Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf filed a petition with court officials asking if his office could initiate a secret investigation into what happened with $11,000 in donations intended for Operation Freedom, an annual event honoring veterans.
By making it a secret John Doe investigation, Landgraf wrote that prosecutors might get better cooperation from Walker's office, which had been "unwilling or unable" to turn over records and information needed in the investigation. He said he would need to subpoena county records and officials.
"It may be the County Executive's Office is reluctant to provide information to investigators due to a fear of political embarrassment," Landgraf wrote, noting that Walker was then running for governor.
But Ciara Matthews, spokeswoman for the governor's recall campaign, said the filing was inaccurate.
In 2009, Matthews said, Walker had his former chief of staff, Tom Nardelli, contact the DA's office over concerns about what a local chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart had done with donations it received from the county for Operation Freedom.
"Multiple follow-ups were made by the chief of staff to the district attorney's office to offer assistance in that investigation, and any statement to the contrary is not correct," Matthews said.
...Prosecutors have previously acknowledged that investigators met with Nardelli and another Walker aide in 2009 over Operation Freedom. Nardelli told the DA's office that Purple Heart's treasurer had refused to provide any records or accounting of the event's finances.
But Landgraf's filing is the first public suggestion Walker's office later reversed course and quit cooperating.
Barrett and the Left's desperate spin on this stuff is just sad.
Now Barrett, via partners like Bice, wants to pin a lack of cooperation in the investigation on Gov. Walker.
Haven't they realized yet that their "Walker is a crook," John Doe plan of attack isn't working?
Barrett keeps pounding away and gets nowhere.
It was so lame when Barrett said, "I just wanna say, I've been in public life 28 years and no one on my staff has ever been charged with a crime and I've never had a criminal defense fund."
Gee, based on that, Barrett should be governor.
Can you imagine if Walker based his campaign on Barrett's wife, Kris, and her violation of policy while an MPS employee? Kris Barrett engaged in lobbying and campaign activity on the taxpayers' dime.
Wouldn't it be crazy if all Gov. Walker had to offer the people of Wisconsin as a candidate was that Barrett's wife was involved in wrongdoing?
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