Scott Walker Gets His Man into Van Hise Hall

Emails show UW regents' concerns over hire. (Wisconsin State Journal, 5/4/2014)

Baby, scratch my back.   Jim Villa was hired on April 2 as UW's vice president for university government relations, a job that pays $178,000 a year to oversee the university system's lobbying and public relations efforts. Villa, who started the job Monday, worked on Walker's 2002 campaign for Milwaukee County executive and later became his chief of staff at the county and an informal adviser during his first run for governor.

And the conservative press takes note.

Walker ally gets new UW job.  (Washington Times, 4/2/2014).

Yesterday's gossip.  Villa’s name appeared in some of the 28,000 pages of emails released in the criminal investigation of former Walker aide Kelly Rindfleisch and his home was searched in 2010 because Rindfleisch lived there. Villa was not charged in the probe.