{"id":10690,"date":"2014-06-26T06:03:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T13:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10690"},"modified":"2014-06-25T23:46:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T06:46:10","slug":"kpfk-bradcast-scott-walkers-corruption-case-is-much-bigger-than-scott-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10690","title":{"rendered":"KPFK &#8216;BradCast&#8217;: Scott Walker&#8217;s Corruption Case is MUCH Bigger Than Scott Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_ScottWalkerCriminalScheme_062514.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">The case against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R), charging that he ran a <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10684\">&#8220;criminal scheme&#8221;<\/a> by coordinating his 2012 recall election campaign with about a dozen &#8220;outside&#8221; groups, is about <i>much<\/i> more than just Walker and his corruption.<\/p>\n<p>On this week&#8217;s <em>BradCast<\/em> on <a href=\"http:\/\/kpfk.org\">KPFK<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/pacificanetwork.org\">Pacifica Radio<\/a>, I spoke with Brendan Fischer, general counsel at the <a href=\"http:\/\/prwatch.org\">Center for Media and Democracy<\/a> about what could be the very last piece of campaign finance law to fall in the wake of 2010&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7709\"><i>Citizens United<\/i><\/a> and 2014&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10565\"><i>McCutcheon<\/i><\/a> rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court.  Depending on how the challenge <i>against<\/i> the case against Walker goes, there may be nothing left that keeps candidate campaigns from putting unlimited, undisclosed millions to work in buying our elections. In short, as I discussed with Fischer, democracy could well become even more hosed than it already is in this country. Who knew that was even possible, at this point?<\/p>\n<p>Also, on this <i>very<\/i> busy <i>BradCast<\/i> on a <i>very<\/i> busy day: <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10687\">&#8220;the most prolific multiple voter in memory&#8221;<\/a> (a case of massive GOP voter fraud in WI); the shadowy <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10686\">Photo ID initiative that went down in flames in CA<\/a>; the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10689\">terrible &#8220;recount&#8221; bill in CA<\/a> that has now been <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10671\">(largely) killed following BRAD BLOG&#8217;s recent expos&eacute;<\/a>; a word or two about the latest absurdity in the GOP&#8217;s pretend IRS &#8220;scandal&#8221;; and, as usual, Desi Doyen with the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\"><em>Green News Report<\/em><\/a> and a some utter nonsense from <i>Fox and Friends<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>All of that <i>and more<\/i> (seriously) in this week&#8217;s insanely busy <i>BradCast<\/i>! Enjoy!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_BrendanFischer_062514.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a> or listen online below [appx 58 mins]&#8230;<\/i><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_BrendanFischer_062514.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R), charging that he ran a &#8220;criminal scheme&#8221; by coordinating his 2012 recall election campaign with about a dozen &#8220;outside&#8221; groups, is about much more than just Walker and his corruption. On this week&#8217;s BradCast on KPFK\/Pacifica Radio, I spoke with Brendan Fischer, general counsel at the Center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,89,675,21,400,106,28,309,490,477,172,126,523,127,313,488,143],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-california","category-election-2012","category-election-fraud","category-election-reform","category-gay-marriage","category-koch-industries","category-kpfk","category-photo-id-laws","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-scott-walker","category-the-constitution","category-us-supreme-court","category-wisconsin-recall-elections","category-wisconsin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10690"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}