Raise For Suder Fits A Pattern

Good for the Journal Sentinel to focus on the 88% raise (with future pension guaranteed, too) lavished on former State Sen.Scott Suder as Gov, Walker lets his key legislative pal play over in the Public Service Commission sandbox.

And let's make sure we remember that the Suder mess is not an isolated in an administration honest about dedication to fiscal conservatism and merit-based hiringt:

*  Walker's awarding of big-salaried state jobs - - the pattern began in the early hours of his administration when a 27-year-old lobbyist's son got an $81,000 job - - to good soldiers like Cindy Archer, or disgraced WisDOT manager Steven Krieser, and, through civil service manipulations, State Capitol police chief David Erwin and his deputy;