{"id":166502,"date":"2015-07-17T15:47:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T15:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=166502"},"modified":"2015-07-17T15:48:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T15:48:35","slug":"billionaires-bought-justice-scott-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/billionaires-bought-justice-scott-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Billionaires Bought &#8220;Justice&#8221; for Scott Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span class=\"wf_caption\" style=\"display: inherit; max-width: 638px;\">Scott Walker is the perfect example of how billionaires can purchase justice a la carte to protect their pet politicians.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s not to say that Scott Walker himself is a billionaire. But he has a well-known relationship with billionaires like the Koch Brothers &#8211; and their assorted front groups.<\/p>\n<p>And in short, that&#8217;s why the Wisconsin Supreme Court dropped its John Doe probe into whether Scott Walker criminally violated campaign finance laws to win his recall election in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Koch brothers and their front groups, particularly the Wisconsin Club for Growth, along with the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce group (WMC) have been setting up this ruling for almost a decade.<\/p>\n<p>This story starts in 2007 with an election for an open seat on the state Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>In that election, conservative front groups spent $2.9 million backing the conservative Annette Ziegler and attacking her liberal opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Total spending on that election was four times the previous record for a Wisconsin Supreme Court race. And that was just to keep a liberal from winning the seat.<\/p>\n<p>And In 2008, those same groups spent $2.7 million to unseat liberal justice Louis Butler and to put in place conservative Michael Gableman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/31934-how-the-billionaires-bought-justice-for-scott-walker\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Walker is the perfect example of how billionaires can purchase justice a la carte to protect their pet politicians. Now that&#8217;s not to say that Scott Walker himself is a billionaire. But he has a well-known relationship with billionaires like the Koch Brothers &#8211; and their assorted front groups. And in short, that&#8217;s why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-166502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}