21st May 2012 at 09:33 | By Brian Sikma
Chief Investigator in John Doe Has Recall Walker Sign in Yard, Blue Fist Union Icon in Window
By: Brian Sikma
The chief investigator in the high-profile John Doe investigation into former Milwaukee County employees who worked for now-Governor Scott Walker has a Walker recall yard sign in his front lawn, and a pro-labor “Blue Fist” icon poster on the front door of his home. The news could call into question the present impartiality of the probe at a time when Democrat gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett and his allies have begun to use the issue as a top talking point.
David Budde's residence, address plate blurred
David Budde is the Chief Investigator in Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm’s office, press accounts have repeatedly noted his central role in the John Doe investigation. His name appears throughout various documents relating to the probe.
Democrats and liberal groups have repeatedly charged that the John Doe will bring Walker down during the recall election. The details of the secretive investigation are not supposed to be leaked according to state law. However, strategically timed leaks arguably benefiting the narrative Democrats are trying to build have repeatedly taken place. Yet, none of the leaks or publicly available facts has yet substantiated the assertion that Walker is in any way connected to the crimes that caused him to call for the investigation in the first place.
District Attorney John Chisholm has failed to clarify what he intends to do to stop the leaks.
The sign that appears in chief investigator Budde’s yard carries a Democratic Party of Wisconsin disclosure statement at the bottom. The signs are for sale on the Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s website and cost $5.00.
The now familiar Blue Fist icon poster was originally an AFL-CIO creation and has proven to be a rallying point and banner for those who oppose Walker’s collective bargaining reforms. It first surfaced around the time of the protests at the state capitol in early 2011 and is now shorthand for someone to identify himself as anti-Walker.
Budde’s anti-Walker sentiments are quite strong. He has given small campaign contributions to John Chisholm in the past, and his wife, also a county employee (as of February) but not employed in the District Attorney’s office, signed the Walker recall petition.
When Media Trackers released a report showing that 43 attorneys and staff in the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s office signed petitions to recall Walker, Deputy District Attorney Kent Lovern told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “Depending on their specific assignments, attorneys may have ethical or conflict considerations that prohibit them from actively participating in politics.” Lovern also told the paper, “My understanding is that none of the attorneys in this office involved in politically related investigations has participated in the recall process.”
The section of the DA’s office conducting the John Doe investigation, the Public Integrity Unit, had its secretary, Janet Oelstrom, sign a recall Walker petition.
Since Lovern strongly suggested it would be inappropriate for anyone working on the John Doe investigation to be participating in politics, it remains to be seen what will happen to David Budde, the chief investigator, now that he has been found openly promoting the political defeat of a person whose name has repeatedly been mentioned in relation to the investigation.
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Barlowmaker said
May 21, 2012 at 10:17 AM
But Budde wouldn’t let his radical Leftist ideology ever interfere with his “professionalism”. /sarcasm
Doug Schmidt said
May 24, 2012 at 8:06 PM
I’ve known David Budde since the Ms Harmon’s third grade class at McKinley Grade School. There is no finer example of integrity, leadership, public service, and friendship than David. I’ve always been proud of my Milwaukee and Tosa heritage. To you folks that do not know David and would try to taint his honorable reputation for very obvious political reasons, I say there is a place for you and it ain’t Florida (try a little further south). Lets let the “bad guys” distract us from the issues. Lets cry foul and point the other way…lets use this issue to shade the truth…Hey there Wisconsinites! Unite in the truth! David Budde will uncover the truth if you let him.. do you dare?
Doug
George Mitchell said
May 24, 2012 at 8:31 PM
So Doug joins Teri in declaring that it’s unfair to even raise the issue of Budde’s bias. Err, his wife’s bias. To do so is to “taint” him.
Here’s the new story line: “I’ve known ____ _____ since we played on the monkey bars He’s a great guy.”
Doug
Doug Schmidt said
May 24, 2012 at 9:19 PM
So now its bad to support your friend? Man, there must be something crappy in the water up there in Beer City. Its not the Wisconsin I remember. The Wisconsin I remember respected the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, their neighbors’ privacy “their rights”….Shame on you for your unfounded attack on this public servant. There is at least one person among you that holds the US Constitution, Bill of Rights, and your rights dear. He is a noble man, a true friend, a protector, a soldier, a husband and neighbor. Shame, shame, shame… The only thing that makes sense is that he is getting close to something and that is why the enemy whines….. Isn’t this about Walker’s aids doing things that are illegal? How did this get to be about a sign in a yard? Silly, stupid silly.
George Mitchell said
May 24, 2012 at 9:36 PM
Unwittingly, Doug makes the point.
Barrett Loser said
May 30, 2012 at 11:03 AM
That’s wonderful. Someone knows the guys and claims he is a great guy. It seems rather obvious why this guy was chosen…it was for his LACK of bias. I mean come on, you have to be an idiot to not see how this guy is just being used as a union tool.
HankScorpio said
May 21, 2012 at 10:18 AM
I await the lefty response to this one…
Robert Earle said
May 21, 2012 at 2:47 PM
Maybe he knows something the rest of us don’t (yet)?
Robert Earle said
May 21, 2012 at 2:59 PM
Say, for example, you’re friends with the health inspector and he tells you not to eat at a certain restaurant: do you go eat there anyway, or do you go somewhere else?
Barlowmaker said
May 22, 2012 at 1:23 AM
We need a picture of you to put in the avatar dictionary of “mealy mouthed”.
Barlowmaker said
May 22, 2012 at 1:28 AM
The little slice of adult world Robert Earle can never comprehend is that the FIRST THING we’d ask his “health inspector” is “what’s wrong with the place and why haven’t you tagged it, why haven’t they fixed it and what is still wrong?”
But that’s real world and lifelong liberal Dane County toddlers don’t live there. They live in Madison. Neverland.
Rick Z said
May 24, 2012 at 9:38 PM
Doug, they are panicking, they realize their guy isn’t what they expected, that he has criminal lawyers for a reason, so they are looking for a way to save face by blaming others.
George Mitchell said
May 21, 2012 at 10:29 AM
When Media Trackers issued the earlier report on DA staffers who signed the recall, Dan Bice and George Stanley went online quickly to downplay the news. Chisholm’s office later echoed the Bice and Stanley comments. At the time, Dan Bice said “I checked the five John Doe prosecutors on my own weeks ago. If any one had signed, then I had a major story. Unfortunately for my sake, none signed, so I had no story.”
It now will be interesting to see how the Journal Sentinel handles this news.
Rob said
May 21, 2012 at 10:30 AM
“Unbiased” “Impartial”, and “Tolerant” ways of the left very hard at work here. The truth of the matter is, right now Wisconsin is under anarchist rule. Where are the investigations into Barrett’s sweetheart -No-bid Contract deals? Where are the investigations into all the Recall activities/work/Emails/etc that were performed on the TAXPAYER dime? Can the Taxpayers of Wisconsin vote in a special prosecutor so that we can have justice?
SeanDuffey said
May 21, 2012 at 10:35 AM
The Milwaukee Police Association has formally endorsed Scott Walker. Does that mean every criminal charge against a Barrett supporter has to be thrown out because it was investigated by Walker supporters? Puh-leeeeze… At most, this will be fertile ground for defense cross-exam and argument. But if, at the end of the day, objective facts support convictions of Walker and/or his aides, the personal political views of the investigator won’t mean a thing.
Barlowmaker said
May 21, 2012 at 10:53 AM
SeanDuffey seems quite incurious about the copious leaks from this “secret” probe that find their way from Chisholm’s office into Dan Bice’s grimy little paws for overtly political (read anti-Walker) purposes.
swalker@wisconsin.gov said
May 21, 2012 at 4:02 PM
well put.
Jeff M said
May 22, 2012 at 11:12 AM
The Police don’t press charges, the DA’s office does…oh wait… (see what I did there?)
Conservative Digest said
May 21, 2012 at 10:48 AM
Great job guys, when all of these things involved with John Doe are out, it really smells.
Bob Dohnal, Publisher
Wis. Conservative Digest
SeanDuffey said
May 21, 2012 at 11:30 AM
Anything earth-shaking facts “leaked” that aren’t set forth in great detail in the 57-page criminal complaint made public in January of 2012?
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=rindfleisch+copy+complaint&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CFMQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wispolitics.com%2F1006%2F_120126_Rindfleisch_Complaint.pdf&ei=VgW5T7PzGInqgQeZq722Cg&usg=AFQjCNFx9Nc0DKKz_k-gf5HjEdN8H_oG7Q&cad=rja
Barlowmaker said
May 21, 2012 at 1:04 PM
Quit being obtuse. The leaks are all about generating the excitable Bice headline, the hysterical subsequent shrieking by usual Anti-Walker Orcs of the Left, and keeping the partisan storyline moving along.
Pat said
May 22, 2012 at 12:31 AM
Does anyone believe that the John Doe investigation isn’t politically motivated? How about if we, the tax PAYERS demand that the Democrat party pay for these so called investigations? Think that they’d decide to end them? Such a silly political game. Unfortunately, we, as in those of us who pay the taxes, get reamed. Chisholm and his whole bunch are bought and paid for Democrats. It makes me sick that my taxes pay their benefits and salaries.
Larry Sullivan said
May 23, 2012 at 11:37 PM
@Pat It is a shame we have to pay for these dirt bags. but look at the bright side at least our taxes pay for a little bit less of their benefits now.
Michael said
May 21, 2012 at 11:37 AM
Love the Peace sign garden ornament. LAME.
Greg said
May 21, 2012 at 4:35 PM
Oh my gosh! A peace sign! He surely MUST be a communist! Send him off to a concentration camp! And he lives in a BRICK house! How anti-WisKOCHsin! Should be living in a house built with good old Georgia Pacific lumber!
Barlowmaker said
May 22, 2012 at 1:30 AM
He’s LAME!
Barlowmaker said
May 22, 2012 at 2:19 AM
Nothing ANY liberal Democrat does, ANY time, ANY where for ANY reason isn’t done for political reasons.
And they are ridiculously radical these days.
June 5. That’s gonna be a HISTORICAL time in not only our Wisconsin’s …. but in our national as well’s …HISTORY.
Go Governor Walker GO! God Bless you.
John Foust said
May 21, 2012 at 11:57 AM
Why do these people think they have have any right to personal political expression? If they work for the government in any way, they should just shut up – wife, roommate, whatever. If one person in the house works for the government, bam, no one there should have any right to expression. If he’d been following the rules and not put any signs outside, then Sikma would have needed to peek into his windows to find the evidence to know his true ties to Obama and George Soros. If you take a government paycheck, you shouldn’t have any right to privacy, right? If he removes the signs now, it’ll only be more proof that Walker is not guilty.
George Mitchell said
May 21, 2012 at 12:19 PM
Foust is SO reliable.
Barlowmaker said
May 21, 2012 at 1:06 PM
“Straw-men R Us”
John Foust said
May 21, 2012 at 5:04 PM
What? You mean Media Trackers didn’t talk to Chisholm or Budde before they published their piece?
Barlowmaker said
May 22, 2012 at 2:05 AM
Yeah, Chisholm or Budde would ever “deign” to talk to MediaTrackers.
C’mon Foust. You’re ilk is PATHETIC on the ‘nets.
Go over to JSO, Zielinski’s army of goofballs and spammers are failing as miserably as ever other part of the Tice/Barrett/Obozo campaigni in Wisconsin is failing.
Not to say election day isn’t gonna be close: Walker will win 54-48 legit, it’ll be 51-49 after Dem voter fraud and of course the Tate Democrat Party will demand recounts, stage bogus “voter suppression” crises amongst the minority dumbos and so on and so forth.
Mike Tate BETTER win this recall or his career is through. The Union thugs are invested to 40 millions in Wisconsin’s temper tantrum on his projection.
Robert Earle said
May 22, 2012 at 2:53 PM
Barlow – Want to know the best way to prevent all that “voter fraud”? Sign up to work at the polls, and see for yourself.
I will be – as I have for the last ten years – working at the polls on June 5th. I’ll be at Midvale Elementary in Madison, from about 1 PM through the closing of the polls and the packaging up of the results to send ‘downtown’. Come on by, and you can watch us creating all sorts of “fraud”.
Or if Madison isn’t convenient for you, go to any polling place you want, and tell the ‘chief inspector’ you are there to observe. They will let you stay as long as there is work still being done.
Seriously. If you *really* think there is all that ‘fraud’, you absolutely should spend a day hanging around a polling place. you’ll learn a whole lot about the process.
Karen Ulvang said
May 21, 2012 at 1:08 PM
The thought that expression of one’s wifes political views out of the workplace is a story in the State of Wisconsin, oh my!
Barlowmaker said
May 21, 2012 at 1:33 PM
Nobody expects internet liberals to comprehend professional ethics.
still counting said
May 21, 2012 at 1:40 PM
First post here. Nice web site.
silencedogood said
May 21, 2012 at 3:14 PM
How anyone can read this and not question the integrity of the investigation is beyond me.
Barlowmaker said
May 22, 2012 at 1:15 AM
You’re not a brain-addled liberal.
Robert Earle said
May 21, 2012 at 3:24 PM
“…it remains to be seen what will happen to David Budde, the chief investigator, now that he has been found openly promoting the political defeat of a person whose name has repeatedly been mentioned in relation to the investigation.”
Who says he put up the signs?
Maybe his wife put them up. Maybe he’s not “openly promoting” anything; maybe his wife is.
Batman said
May 21, 2012 at 5:09 PM
Oh Darn , who put that sign in my yard, maybe it is outside my propety line and on City property and I can’t touch it for fear of getting arested for trespassing. But then again , Wink Wink, I really know nothing about it. Not my sign. I will talk to my wife and see if she knows anything about it. Wink, Wink.
Robert Earle said
May 21, 2012 at 9:20 PM
I’d think fans of Walker would want to avoid references to “Wink”, particularly in the context of the John Doe investigation. Just sayin’….
Mandrake said
May 22, 2012 at 1:18 AM
Robert Earle,
Just out of curiosity, when Jon Erpenbach signed your recall petition, did you go to his office or his house? And if it was the latter, did he answer the door in a pair of leopard-skin pouchwear like when my daughter tried to sell him girl scout cookies?
Barlowmaker said
May 22, 2012 at 1:48 AM
Like any two gracelessly aging Madison Marxists they “nuzzled” a bit, sang some solidarity songs, maybe took a knowing glance and a toot of vuvazela magic when collecting their bikes- and just enjoyed being life long parasitic Dane County lefty d-bags.
Robert Earle said
May 22, 2012 at 8:41 AM
On University Ave, outside a Panera Bread.
xoff said
May 21, 2012 at 5:04 PM
http://www.wispolitics.com/1006/120521_chisholm.pdf
Apparently the First Amendment is still in effect, even for spouses of government employees. That’s probably the next to go on Walker agenda.
Batman said
May 21, 2012 at 5:21 PM
Xoff, I have to agree with you Walker does support free and truthful speech, and he does promote it very well. It’s always been on his GREAT ! agenda. Even the liberals now agree that Act 10 has worked and now have had to try and find something to complain about that just shows what pitiful condition they are in. (and always will be)
George Mitchell said
May 21, 2012 at 8:01 PM
xoff, defender of the sleaziest ad in recent wisconsin political history (bogus attack on Prosser), claims this is about constitutional liberty. Can’t make it up.
George Mitchell said
May 21, 2012 at 8:43 PM
Speaking of the First Amendment, I am 100% in favor of xoff’s right to work with his buddies at the Greater Wisconsin Committee to spread slime. The new GWC spot on the John Doe is right in line with the xoff-McGrorty tradition.
John Foust said
May 22, 2012 at 9:04 AM
According to his comments over at Prof. Shh ‘n Shh’s place, George is also 101% in favor of politicians being able to use their public-paid staffers on any private campaign work. It’s just a perk!
Zyndari said
May 21, 2012 at 7:16 PM
Give me a camera and a couple of signs and I can produce a photo too. No professional investigator in such a visible case would advertise in his front yard. April fool, in May.
Barlowmaker said
May 22, 2012 at 1:33 AM
Yeah, it’s a conspiracy.. Way to go Mensa.
Barlowmaker said
May 22, 2012 at 1:41 AM
Incidentally, did you note that the Dane County jurist who enjoined the duly passed Voter ID Law until after the recall election SIGNED the recall petition?
“Professionalism. Integrity. Honor”? Foreign concepts to these entrenched, leftist vermin.
This is a Civil War all right: But it’s a war of Wisconsin’s entrenched, Union public class bureaucracy against the hard working, productive private sector taxpayers who EMPLOY THEM!
The Unionista Flotsam shot the proverbial wad, jumped the proverbial shark and now are proverbial shit creek forever.
Good. June 5.
Ben Plunkett said
May 21, 2012 at 8:13 PM
It is likely that these signs were put up by the persons wife. Unlike the Republicans who try to stop their wives from voting, most sane people believe that a woman has every right to express her political beliefs.
Shame on your for pushing us back to the days when a husband would control who his wife voted for or supported. Shame.
George Mitchell said
May 21, 2012 at 8:17 PM
Remember Barrett’s claim that it was “vicious” to mention his wife’s politicking on public time? By tomorrow I won’t be surprised if Media Trackers is accused of a “war on women.”
Barlowmaker said
May 22, 2012 at 1:18 AM
Ben Plunkett’s Zielinski blather is sounding like “Old Uncle Joe, He’s Moving Kinda Slow, At the Junction.”
Petticoat Junction!
Tough to be a Unionista hyena these days. The GOP Lions are everywhere!
Sam said
May 21, 2012 at 8:47 PM
I have no confidence in Chisholm. Isn’t it a crime for him to allow partisan hacks to lead an investigation? Who will investigate Chisholm? An independent person needs to be brought in to investigate Chisholm and how he runs his office and in particular this Budde person. Does anyone know who has the power to start an independent investigation of a district attorney’s office when corruption is suspected?
Mandrake said
May 22, 2012 at 2:36 AM
That would be the Office of Lawyer Regulation, which can be linked to here:
http://www.wicourts.gov/courts/offices/olr.htm
The Rules of Professional Conduct are at the bottom. Click on “Filing a grievance” for instructions on how to submit a complaint. A lawyer is obligated to respond in writing to the ABA investigator overseeing the complaint filed. Maybe when Chisholm starts going blind on paperwork responding to an incessant barrage of public complaints against him, he’ll finally decide its more economical to get his house in order.
Batman said
May 22, 2012 at 8:31 AM
Chisholm is a pupet of Barret, what else would you expect . Almost half of his people in his office signed the recall petition. Kind of tells you something hey!!, Lefties of course are blind to begin with and will never recognize that. Especially when Act 10 is working just great and will even do better when more school systems elect to use it. Ask leftie Shorewood how they are enjoying the savings. No flack from a heavy stupid left their.
michael hanson said
May 22, 2012 at 11:58 AM
Batman, you talk about how lefties whine when they don’t get their way. I hear a lot of whining because walker is being investigated and they think the left is out to get him, OR the office investigating are full of ‘partisan hacks’, (see, Sam said). This is exactly what walker is trying to do, drive a stake through Wisconsin’s heart (which are her people) and ‘divide and conquer.’
Lee Hill said
May 21, 2012 at 11:29 PM
All this “crap” about Walker and his recall is being kept alive and funded by “all” the Unions, AFL-CIO, Teachers Union, etc….the way to spell corruption is “UNIONS”…I belonged to the Teamsters for many years, so I know first hand how Unions work…whenever they don’t get “their” way they whine and cause trouble..
michael hanson said
May 22, 2012 at 7:02 AM
It’s too bad that conservatives are not able to take facts for what they are, FACTS. Conservatives must make up their own ‘facts’ and then whine on and on, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. Walker is under investigation because he is a crook. As far as the investigators, they do their job the way it should be done, not the way that conservatives imagine it should be. I would say that conservatives get mad when the sun rises in the east and they want it to rise in the west.
Batman said
May 22, 2012 at 8:20 AM
Mike, but its ok for Barrets wife to politic on public time, lefties always never tell the truth. Your facts are all false. Not un expected though. Read the Drudge report now and then to straighten out your head and be sure to listen to Mark and get all the real facts. Then you to can call your self an American.
Jeff M said
May 22, 2012 at 12:14 PM
Michael, maybe you need to re-examine the “Facts”. Walker is not under investigation. FACT. The investigation is focused on Milwaukee county workers who were conducting political activities on county time. BTW, this investigation has been going on since May 2010.
michael hanson said
May 22, 2012 at 3:08 PM
Jeff M, Wi statues permit a state government official who is being investigated for or charged with a violation of campaign finance laws or prohibited election practices to establish a “legal defense fund” for expenditures supporting of defending the candidate while that person is being investigated for, or charged with, or convicted of a violation. This is the ONLY REASON that walker can have a criminal defense fund. FACT.
Allwaysright said
May 22, 2012 at 9:38 AM
Expect to hear some “earth-shattering” news come out of th einvestigation about Walker, just before the recall election, to try to swing the vote.
michael hanson said
May 22, 2012 at 9:54 AM
To Batman, Tom Barrett.s wife has been accused, not investigated, of using her Milwaukee public school acct. to do political work. If it leads to an investigation, so be it. I do not read Drudge for the fact that he has been proven wrong time and again. Do not accuse me of not being an American. I am a disabled vet who fought and paid for this country to be great and free.
Teresa Huggins said
May 22, 2012 at 10:47 AM
Our country is going to the dogs… there are no ethics left. People do whatever they wish, without a thought. And when stuff like this happens, who stands up to these people? No one.
Rick Z said
May 22, 2012 at 1:25 PM
Jeff M, you have no way of knowing if SW is being investigated. If you base it on his denials, that is not a FACT.
Robert Earle said
May 22, 2012 at 2:29 PM
By state law, public officials can only form legal defense funds if they are being investigated, have been charged with, or convicted of a criminal violation; or if an “agent” if theirs in being investigated, charged, or convicted.
Scott Walker has formed a legal defense fund, started sometime in 2011.
Robert Earle said
May 22, 2012 at 2:37 PM
And (I could be wrong but) I think in the context of that particular chapter of the WI statutes, ‘agent’ doesn’t mean employee, etc., So none of the people from Walker’s County Exec’s office who have been charged/convicted in the John Doe would qualify as an ‘agent’ in the meaning of the Legal Defense Fund statutes.
Rick Z said
May 22, 2012 at 3:04 PM
So Robert, is it therefore a certainty that he is in fact being investigated since he has established the fund, in spite of his denials, and if not is he breaking the law by having such a fund?
Robert Earle said
May 22, 2012 at 4:23 PM
(Unless I am mistaken about who is and is not an “agent”…)
Yes.
Teri F said
May 23, 2012 at 8:28 PM
I’m a staunch Walker supporter. I’ve also known David Budde for over 35 years and can unequivocally say he would never act improperly or do anything unethical. He was also in charge of past investigations that involved prominent Democrats. Just because a person has a differing political view doesn’t mean he can’t conduct an objective investigation. Law enforcement is fact-based, not ideological.
George Mitchell said
May 23, 2012 at 8:31 PM
Is it just me, or does Teri F seem scripted/
Teri F said
May 23, 2012 at 8:52 PM
I’m a writer, so yes, I can write intelligently. Thanks.
Mandrake said
May 24, 2012 at 7:11 PM
“…doesn’t mean he can’t conduct an objective investigation.”
It does not mean that he can either. In the very least, he was careless… stupid even. The chief investigator of the highest publicized case in the entire state and he has a sign in his yard which denounces the very person he’s (probably) investigating…
That’s the equivalent to pulling out in front of a cop car at a red light.
Allwaysright said
May 24, 2012 at 10:30 AM
In my opinion, Mr. Budde, if he has allowed a Recall Walker sign to be planted on, and to remain on, his property (I have not seen the sign personally so I am relying on news reports – if the reports are incorrect, then my comments are moot), he has already done something “improper/unethical”. Even if someone other than him planted the sign, he clearly has the ability to remove the sign and an ethical person would have done so. Because of the sensitivity of his investigation, it is highly critical and appropriate that he not allow any semblance of bias to creep in. It is his duty to ensure that, whenever and wherever he has the ability to do so. Many newspaper editors have criticized their writers for signing recall petitions, saying that by doing so, they raised the specter of biased reporting. This is an issue completely separate from whether his investigation is impartial or not and actually goes to the man’s intelligence and legal knowledge. I compare it to a judge in a case having an “ex parte” meeting with a prosecuting or defense attorney. It makes NO difference whether anything material to a case was discussed during the meeting – the appearance alone is improper and unethical. How would anyone “not investigating” Walker defend an accusation in court that his investigation was not ethical in every regard? He could be jeopardizing his own investigation and those defending the Recall Walker sign on his property should think about this. Mr. Budde’s defenders may think it a “trivial” issue, but issues believed to be “trivial” at the time have torpedoed investigations when they come to light. If he hasn’t already removed the sign, he is not only unethical, he is stupid.
Henry Audey said
Jun 3, 2012 at 8:04 PM
Pretty creepy pictures.
Henry Audey said
Jun 3, 2012 at 8:05 PM
Wonder who put the signs there.
Henry Audey said
Jun 3, 2012 at 8:11 PM
Isn’t the John Doe about funny contract bidding?