Posted on: April 30th, 2010

Four Milwaukee-area lawmakers on Thursday called for a state audit of the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex, saying reports of patient abuse needed further investigation.

The state legislators, all Democrats, said services for people with mental health problems were “inadequate and severely mismanaged.” Reps. Tamara Grigsby, Jon Richards, Pedro Colón and Sandy Pasch said an audit would help identify ways to improve the complex.

At a news conference on the complex grounds, Grigsby said abuse reports and other problems had raised alarms.

“It’s disgusting, despicable how this complex has been managed,” she said.

The lawmakers faulted county hospital administrators and County Executive Scott Walker for not providing more details of the extent of patient abuse, steps taken to prevent further abuse and any disciplinary action taken against Mental Health Complex employees. Walker and county lawyers have said patient confidentiality laws restrict what information can be released.

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Posted on: April 30th, 2010

MADISON – Milwaukee television station WTMJ yesterday broke the shocking news that GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker had hired a defrocked northern Wisconsin police chief and sex criminal to supervise security at Milwaukee County facilities, including the children’s courthouse.

The supervisor for British-based Wackenhut Security, Chad Wegener, was charged in 2004 on various criminal counts, including making unwelcome sexual advances and drunken requests for sexual favors from the very officers he supervised as chief of the Manawa Police Department, according to the criminal complaint.

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Posted on: April 26th, 2010

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Posted on: April 24th, 2010

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker voted to allow late-night lawmaking when he was a member of the Assembly even though he rails against the practice now.

Walker joined with the Republican majority in January 1997 to eliminate a rule that required lawmakers to finish their floor sessions at 8 p.m., voting records show. Republican lawmakers had voted to put the rule in place after taking control of the chamber in 1995.

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Posted on: April 20th, 2010

Having failed to properly budget for the golf season, Scott Walker now is cutting services to five Milwaukee County courses, continuing a diminishing of the once-proud network of links by the failed county executive.

“Scott Walker is the guy who doesn’t replace his divots,” Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate said Tuesday. “From a falling-down courthouse to a bus service in shambles. From critical services to the most vulnerable, now even to the small golf courses that average citizens use for entertainment, Scott Walker would rather run for governor than govern with accountability.”

Under Walker, Milwaukee lost its long-time PGA event at Brown Deer Country Club; has seen not just the golf courses, but the entire park system fall to ruin; and now, cuts at five of its golf courses.

“The five golf courses are now scheduled to be paid for based on golfers’ honesty,” Tate said. “That rules out a tee time for Walker.”

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Posted on: April 15th, 2010

Milwaukee television station WTMJ yesterday broke the shocking news that GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker had hired a defrocked northern Wisconsin police chief and sex criminal to supervise security at Milwaukee County facilities, including the children’s courthouse.

The supervisor for British-based Wackenhut Security, Chad Wegener, was charged in 2004 on various criminal counts, including making unwelcome sexual advances and drunken requests for sexual favors from the very officers he supervised as chief of the Manawa Police Department, according to the criminal complaint.

According to the criminal complaint against him, Scott Walker’s eventual security supervisor repeatedly would invite on-duty officers over to his home, ply them with alcohol, watch pornography and perform sex acts.

Scott Walker hired Wegener last month through Wackenhut, which suspended him following media reports. Wegener oversaw security at four county buildings, including the Juvenile Justice facility.

Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chairman Mike Tate on Thursday called for a full-scale review of Walker’s negotiation of the Wackenhut contract, which Walker defended to WTMJ, and of the sex criminal Chad Wegener’s hiring.

One of the incidents of sexual harrassment described in the complaint took place on a Police Explorers trip, according to the complaint.

He also was accused of going armed while intoxicated and breaking into a suspect’s home.

Wegener later pleaded no contest to five misdemeanor counts and was sentenced to 90 days in jail.

The news comes on the heels of probes into sexual assaults at Walker’s Behavioral Health Division.

“Scott Walker’s hiring of a sex criminal to supervise security at the children’s courthouse and other Milwaukee County facilities must not be whitewashed-it must be investigated,” Tate said. “There need be no further proof why Walker’s judgment must never be trusted.”

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