Dear Wisconsin taxpayers, Thanks for the help with my own blueprint for prosperity. Love, Scott Walker

Amid heavy travel, Scott Walker security team racked up $577,000 in OT.  (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12/30/2015)

"It's just excessive," said state Sen. Jon Erpenbach (D-Middleton). "Taxpayers paid for an entourage for him and it wasn't necessary. There's no excuse for it."  

He called on Walker's campaign to reimburse taxpayers for overtime costs when he was doing political work, but there were no signs the governor planned to do that.