Starting at the Top

Why get an education? Why get work experience? If you live in Wisconsin, the "deficit cutting" and "union busting" governor Scott Walker believes in starting the sons of rich people right at the top management position.

This is the governor who claims that big deficits forced him to bust unions and cut pay for working people. But when it comes to giving a cushy job and big pay to a big money political contributor? Why, that is a different kettle of fish. The young boy is immediately handed a senior position and lots of money!

From the ThinkProgress blog:

Scott Walker Gives $81,500 Government Job To Top Donor’s 26-Year-Old College Dropout Son

Since taking office in January, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has stripped public workers of their collective bargaining rights, proposed wage cuts to local government employees, and insisted that his “state is broke” and that its public workers are overpaid. But Walker applies a different standard to himself.
Today, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reveals that Walker is using state funds to pay more than $81,500 a year to the 26-year-old son of a major campaign donor with no college degree and two drunken-driving convictions.

Despite having almost no management experience, UW Madison college dropout Brian Deschane now oversees state environmental and regulatory issues and manages dozens of Commerce Department employees. After only two months on the job, Deschane has already received a 26 percent pay raise and a promotion.

Deschane’s father, Jerry Deschane was a major financial backer of the Governor’s campaign.

Go read the post on ThinkProgress for more details.

I'm guessing not many voters went to the polls in November 2010 eager to vote for sleaze, for "favours" for big donors, or to bust the unions. That's the "surprise" that Scott Walker waited to spring on the poor citizens of Wisconsin.

And this is the same sleazy politics that Republicans are pulling all across the US. Sad.