Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Corruption & Cover-Up In Milwaukee County's Disability Program (DECA)
It is my belief that: Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker has never been interested in exposing the long standing and ongoing corruption & cover-up I believe is taking place in MilwaukeeCounty government. I also believe that: none of the members of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors is interested in doing so either. Even though each of them was elected via a mandate, by the taxpayers, to "Clean-up County Government."
The reason that I say that is because: although I have repeatedly asked Walker and the entire County Board to expose and/or hold people accountable for the longstanding and ongoing corruption & cover-up I believe is taking place in Milwaukee County's disability program (DECA) - they have refused to do so. A refusal I believe has denied several thousand individuals with disabilities (in the DECA Program) the opportunities that the program was designed to provide for them. Opportunities that are supposed to assist those disabled individuals in becoming "eligible for employment in 'civil service' positions in Milwaukee County government" (see DECA web site - http//www.county.milwaukee.gov/display/router.asp?docid=8000 - for information on the DECA Program's stated purpose).
All of this, due to what I believe is a longstanding, ongoing and corrupt "policy" within the Milwaukee County's Human Resources Department that was established in order to not put DECA candidates on many of the job certification lists that a department uses when deciding who to interview and/or hire.
A "policy" that I believe is the by product of "backroom politics" between the bureaucrats at the county courthouse and the officials in the union that represents the county employees.
A "policy" that I believe is in place because: it makes it much easier for the current Milwaukee County employees to change jobs (if and/or when they want to), and much harder for any of those disabled members of the DECA Program to ever get there first "civil service" job with the county - if you are able to use "backroom politics" to remove any possibility of competition.
In order to view a larger version of any of the "important documents" listed below - use any one of the following methods:
- Click on the any one of the orange links (found in the listing of "important documents") - to open a PDF copy of that document.
- Double click on the document's "thumbnail images" (located at the top of this page), wait for the "expand to regular size" button to appear (at the lower right hand corner of the images), then click on that "expand" button - to open a large jpeg image of that document
- Right click on the document's "thumbnail images" & "Save Target As. . ." - to save a copy of the document to your desktop
Important documents (located in the page's text as "PDF" links and/or at the top of this page - as "thumbnail images")
- Milwaukee County Department of Human Resources memo (Titled "Certification of additional DECA eligibles" - Dated 9/18/87) - that talks about "the formulation of a 'policy' concerning DECA candidates" - Available as a PDF (HR memo) and as a jpeg image - on this blog page.
- Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker’s 2002 campaign flyer - that talks about his wanting to "shine a light" on the "corruption in county government" - Available as a PDF (Campaign Flyer) and as a jpeg image - on the this blog page.
- Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker’s letter (Dated 6/3/02) - that talks about Scott Walker’s inability to “find any specific actions that he can take” regarding the corruption & cover-up I believe is taking place in the DECA Program - Available as a PDF (Walker Letter) and as a jpeg image - on the this blog page.
Applicable quotes - by County officials
"I do not, at this time, find any specific actions that I can take in regard to your case and the allegations of a 'cover-up' that you make." - Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker's 2002 response - when asked to expose and/or hold people accountable for the corruption/cover-up in the DECA Program (See: Walker Letter - Dated 6/3/02 - Available as a PDF [ Walker Letter ] and as a jpeg image - on this blog page).
"I want to bring the actions of County government out into the open. By shining a light on County government, we will take away the hiding places so that this sort of corruption can't happen again." - Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker's 2002 campaign slogan (See: Walker 2002 Campaign Flyer - Available as a PDF [Campaign Flyer] and as a jpeg image - on this blog page).
"No, I will not expose it." - Milwaukee County Supervisor Mark Borkowski's 1993 response - when asked to expose and/or hold people accountable for the corruption/cover-up in the DECA Program.
"I will not hold those people accountable. I have to be able to work with them." - Milwaukee County Supervisor Mark Borkowski's 2002 response - when asked to expose and/or hold people accountable for the corruption/cover-up in the DECA Program.
"No, I will not expose it. You would not believe what these people are doing behind closed doors" - Milwaukee County Supervisor Roger Quindel's 1993 response - when asked to expose and/or hold people accountable for the corruption/cover-up in the DECA Program. The "people" I believe Supervisor Quindel was referring to was his fellow Supervisors and the bureaucrats at the Milwaukee County Courthouse.
"I never said that (referring to the 1993 'behind closed doors' comment). I will check with some people, and I will get back to you." - Milwaukee County Supervisor Roger Quindel's 2002 response - when reminded of what he said in 1993, and when asked to expose and/or hold people accountable for the corruption/cover-up in the DECA Program. Supervisor Quindel never "got back to me."
Scroll up or click on the appropriate "archive" link (on the upper left portion of this page) - to read the blog dated 6/26/06 - "Lautenschlager Covers Up The Corruption In Milwaukee County's Disability Program (DECA)"
Scroll up or click on the appropriate "archive" link (on the upper left portion of this page) - to read the blog dated 6/28/06 - "Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors Covering Up The Corruption in The County's Disability Program (DECA)"
Click on this link to see: all of the postings.
# posted by dapprdan @ 2:28 PM 
