Friday, May 14, 2010

Probably Not in the Constituent Services Coordinator Job Description


 Today's Egg-On-Face Award to Darlene Wink

Link to May 13 Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel "No Quarter" column by Daniel Bice, "Walker staffer quits after admitting she posted Web comments while at work".

Excerpt: Ever wonder who has the time and motivation to go online and post all those highly partisan comments about Journal Sentinel stories?

Here's one:

Darlene Wink, constituent services coordinator for County Executive Scott Walker.

Using a pseudonym, Wink has posted about 70 comments on Journal Sentinel blogs and stories since October - most of them praising her boss, touting his gubernatorial bid or ripping his two opponents, Democratic Mayor Tom Barrett and ex-U.S. Rep. Mark Neumann, a Republican. And she was becoming increasingly prolific, offering nearly 25 comments in April, according to a routine check of online search engines.

But here's the kicker:

The vast majority of these were done while she was on the clock for the taxpayers and the county
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