WI Gov. Scott Walker Creates Phantom Jobs To Boost Aides’ Pay

Walker’s administration used “phantom job transfers” to get around rules that limited employees’ salaries.

He did so while also helping to sabotage the Badger State’s economy with his Draconian budget cuts and pushing to reduce state spending on healthcare and public schools.

Wisconsin Department of Revenue chief economist John Koskinen, for example, was “transferred through three different high-level jobs at the state Department of Administration and then back to his original post, picking up bumps in his pay as he ping-ponged among them. Along the way, the longtime state employee shed his status as a political appointee and strengthened his civil-service job protections.” While Koskinen was “never expected to do any work at his shadow jobs,” the maneuver increased his salary 14.4 percent, to $114,917 — more than double the median Wisconsin household income.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.