If last week’s innocent Facebook “death threat” against Scott Walker is any indication, get this guy a concealed weapon and save taxpayers huge amounts of security money. This is what you get when you’re dealing with paranoid frightened Republican politicians, who hid from the public by locking up the Capitol entrances, and then securing the place, by passing a concealed carry law for zealot right wingers with itchy trigger fingers.
But the money to protect Republicans is obscene, and it’s getting worse. Look at this outrageous waste:
jsonline: The costs of the governor's security detail totaled $611,400 over the 10 months from Walker's election in November 2010 to the end of August of this year. That was more than twice as much as the $259,900 that it cost to protect then Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle over the comparable 10-month period from November 2009 to August 2010.
The costs of protecting the state's top two leaders (is) a product of the states increasingly polarized politics … A top official in the Wisconsin State Patrol and a spokesman for Walker said the increased costs were mostly due to death threats against … But Walker's office also acknowledged that other factors like the increased security for Walker's two homes and younger family played a role.
But all that wasted taxpayer money pales in comparison to security at the Capitol for the Republican scaredy-cats:
The state has also paid nearly $8.2 million for increased law enforcement at the Capitol this year in the midst of massive demonstrations over the union legislation, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau.
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