Just broken on Mark Belling’s show – a federal jury has convicted Georgia Thompson on 2 federal felonies for steering a travel contract to a company run by Doyle campaign contributors because the officers of that company donated to Doyle.
Nice knowing you, Craps.
Revisions/extensions (10:40 pm 6/12) – Part of the instant local presstitute spin is that “(t)he indictment does not allege a pay-to-play scheme in which the contract was awarded in exchange for the donations.” However, Steve Schultze explodes his own spin by pointing out that the indictment stated that “Thompson steered the contract to Adelman ‘to cause political advantage for her supervisors’ and to bolster her job security.” With the jury returning guilty verdicts on all counts in that indictment, that is now a matter of fact. There are but 2 people above Thompson in her organizational chart that stood to gain a “political advantage” – Marc Marotta (now Doyle’s campaign chair) and Jim Doyle himself.
A question for the Doylies out there; just why did Georgia Thompson feel it necessary to illegally inflate Adelman Travel’s scores to cause a political advantage for her supervisors to keep her job? She didn’t feel it necessary to conduct illegal acts for either political advantage for her supervisors or job security when Scott McCallum was governor.
