MADISON, Wis. — Former aides to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker when he served as a county executive routinely mixed county and campaign business, copying in the candidate on messages even after he told them to stop, according to thousands of e-mails and other court documents released Wednesday.
The roughly 28,000 pages of e-mails and other documents were collected during the investigation into Kelly Rindfleisch, who served as Walker’s deputy chief of staff in his Milwaukee County executive’s office in 2010.
Walker, a Republican who faces re-election this year and is considering a run for president in 2016, was not charged with any wrongdoing in the investigation that closed last year with convictions against Rindfleisch and five other former aides and associates.
Democrats pounced on the latest records dump, hoping Walker would be sunk by the investigation that has shadowed him for years. Walker said his political opponents would spin the records to their advantage, but there were no surprises in them.
