{"id":3767,"date":"2011-04-06T19:15:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T01:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/gov-scott-walker-is-a-paragon-of-republican-virtues-not\/"},"modified":"2011-04-06T19:15:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T01:15:39","slug":"gov-scott-walker-is-a-paragon-of-republican-virtues-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/gov-scott-walker-is-a-paragon-of-republican-virtues-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Scott Walker is a paragon of Republican virtues &ndash; NOT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/04\/06\/scott-walker-dropout-hire-update\/\">ThinkProgress \u00bb Gov. Scott Walker Chose Top Donor\u2019s 26-Year-Old Dropout Son Over PhD And Engineer<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On Monday, ThinkProgress noted that Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) was using state funds to pay more than <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/04\/04\/scott-walker-hires-dropout\/\">$81,500 a year<\/a> to Brian Deschane, a 26-year-old <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">son of a major campaign donor with no college degree and two drunken-driving convictions<\/font>. The job involved overseeing state environmental and regulatory issues and managing dozens of Commerce Department employees. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, after the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/watchdog\/noquarter\/119159584.html\">media reported<\/a> on the hiring, Walker abruptly reversed course and removed Deschane from his position. Despite calling Deschane a \u201cnatural fit\u201d just last week, Walker spokesman Cullen Werwise said Tuesday that the Governor decided \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/statepolitics\/119283094.html\">to move in another direction<\/a>\u201d after learning of the details of the appointment. <\/p>\n<p>Yet, Deschane will still serve in the Administration, returning to his previous job where he made $64,000 a year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/04\/06\/scott-walker-dropout-hire-update\/\">ThinkProgress \u00bb Gov. Scott Walker Chose Top Donor\u2019s 26-Year-Old Dropout Son Over PhD And Engineer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ThinkProgress \u00bb Gov. Scott Walker Chose Top Donor\u2019s 26-Year-Old Dropout Son Over PhD And Engineer On Monday, ThinkProgress noted that Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) was using state funds to pay more than $81,500 a year to Brian Deschane, a 26-year-old son of a major campaign donor with no college degree and two drunken-driving convictions. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/gov-scott-walker-is-a-paragon-of-republican-virtues-not\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gov. Scott Walker is a paragon of Republican virtues &ndash; NOT!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}