Subject: [big campaign] Over Two Weeks Later, Walker Has Not Released Administration-Koch Lobbyist Communication Emails
From: "Aniello Alioto, ProgressNow" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:56:16 -0500
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*For Immediate Release
March 11, 2011*
*Contact: Robert Doeckel
Phone: 608-217-0194*

 Over Two Weeks Later, Walker Has Not Released Administration-Koch Lobbyist
Communication Emails *One Wisconsin Now Considering ‘Any, All Legal
Remedies’
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Madison – Over two weeks after One Wisconsin Now filed an open records
request for all email and written communications between Koch Industries’
lead Wisconsin lobbyist and the office of Gov. Scott Walker and the
Department of Administration, the Walker administration has yet to fulfill
the request. One Wisconsin Now said it is considering legal action and notes
the unusual speed at which Gov. Walker’s office released staff email
communications this week it claimed were proof of the administration’s
willingness to negotiate with Senate Democrats in the budget repair bill
dispute.

“Gov. Scott Walker needs to learn there isn’t one set of open records laws
for emails you want to release and another set of open records laws for
emails you don’t want to release,” said Scot Ross, One Wisconsin Now
Executive Director. “Suing Gov. Walker to obtain these records is not what
we want to do, but we are more than willing to take him to court if he
refuses to promptly fulfill our reasonable and legal request.”

One Wisconsin Now would be the third organization in the last week to sue
the Governor’s office over its open records request obstructionism. Both the
Associated Press and the Madison-based Isthmus filed suit over the Walker
administration’s failure to fulfill an open records request asking for
emails the Governor claimed he had received in support of his plan to use
the government to take away the rights of working families by ending
collective bargaining rights of public employees. Walker attempted to charge
the media outlets $31,000 for the request.

Over a week ago, Walker’s office acknowledged it had received One Wisconsin
Now’s open records request, which was sent electronically February 24. In
the request One Wisconsin Now asked for written and email communications
between Jeffrey Schoepke, Koch Industries’ lead Wisconsin-based lobbyist,
and the Governor’s office and the office of the Secretary of the Department
of Administration.

Koch Industries’ billionaire owners Charles and David Koch are the driving
financial force behind Americans for Prosperity, the organization running
hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars in television ads to support
Gov. Walker’s effort to use the government to take away the right of 175,000
Wisconsin workers. Gov. Walker has also included in his scheme a plan to
allow private companies, like Koch Industries, to purchase the state’s
public power plants in a possible no-bid scheme.

KochPAC gave Gov. Walker’s gubernatorial campaign $43,000 and David Koch
personally donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association, which
spent $5 million to elect Gov. Walker. [Center on Media and Democracy,
2/18/11; Republican Governors Association Press Release]

Americans for Prosperity, which spent $70 million in 2009 and 2010 to
advance Koch’s anti-working family agenda was founded through the donations
of the brothers’ Koch Foundation.

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