Whatever was said, it was out of your passion for Scott Walker. But still, I must say I am surprised by it.

Now go ahead and have the Patriotic last word for the cause of Freedom and all that is good in the Nation. Lol.

brother....poor poor baby!

Oh my.

Donnaw -coming from someone who spends all her days pecking away cluelessly on the internet forums - I take that as a compliment.

brother,,,you have issues with reality.

donnaw - you really have issues with reading comprehension.

brother...source you cite for this accusation? You must have some proof of some of this million being earmarked for his personal payback.

donnaw - you clearly are a devotee of all things Walker.

I did mention they would have to outfit them with workstations and of course compensate the employees. Benefits are assumed to be part of compensation package - but you may not have worked at a job in a while (or ever) and not know this basic info.

Professional compensation packages of $125,000 X 5 = $625,000. So you say it costs $75K per person to outfit them? ...maybe Scotty's friends at Phones Plus can cut them a deal.

Hey, maybe that million is a real number they need. Perhaps that figure is itemized somewhere? I am not kidding. But that is how it goes when you spend public money, right? - you have to account for it. Which is why weasels like Scotty would rather privatize it all to his friends and have little accountability.

brother....so the five new employees will sit on the floor and use sign language to communicate....no offices, desks, chairs, computers, phone systems, benefits, etc? Or maybe they can play musical chairs with the current employees and when one of them goes to the bathroom they can use their desk for a few minutes?

donnaw - the proposal does say $1 million to add 5 employees. The morons know that employees will need training and workstation. However, it is an existing task force, they aren't starting from scratch here with their infrastructure.

I am sure though that Scotty will not make such a mistake of being transparent going forward. He can outsource it like he does with the multi-million dollar spending and the privatized dealmaker can pocket the millions and pay the workers a fraction of it, depending on if they are outstate or even offshore.

You really need to brush up on your open-for-business version of capitalism.

You morons who think $1 million for hiring 5 people is strictly for salaries are really stupid. Do the words "stop Internet crimes against children" mean anything like maybe they will need to invest a lot of the budget in sophisticated computers and other Internet programs and equipment to get those who are committing these crimes? Office space, desks, etc. you Walker haters are something else.

Healthcare, Jobs......priorities, priorities man.

I bet Scotty is kicking himself for not finding a way to privatize that task force. The $3 and $6 million ...who knows how that is spread. No accountability-another perk of privatizing.

"The expanded DNA collection Walker is proposing would also include anyone convicted for any crime"
Wonder what his former staffers think about that?

$200,000.00 a year per person????????????? Where do I apply?

"The recidivism rate for prisoners released from prison within one year is 44.1%; this number rises to 67.5% within three years of being released from prison."

The reality is that crime is committed by a small subset of society - tracking them more closely is quite beneficial to quickly solving the crimes they commit. With any luck, we can eventually justify decriminalizing most drug offenses to free the space needed to properly incarcerate the real criminals.

Where can I apply to be on the special task force at that salary?....wowza

Another reactive policy / law of our state government.

Walker is buffoon. Are people for less gov't or more? Convicted Felons are already DNA'd. Accused are not guilty of anything and should be treated as such. GPS? Are there people that really think this is going to do anything? I swear people don't think anything thru anymore, just knee jerk their way thru life.

Where are the libertarians on this one?

Is DNA any different than a finger print? The Governor and A.G. don't think so.

Is the photo to the left of main page, of North Korean leader, an intentional accompaniment to this news?

Im sure hung liberals would have been monitored by the new BIGGER goverment.

Liberals commenting here are like the guy who was being hanged and complained that they were not using a new rope.

Sounds to me he would be tracking the "guilty". I'm sure there are many people who disagree, but I think it is a good thing to do. Please don't shoot me for having an opinion, crazy people scare me! LOL

You are innocent until proven guilty. Why does our governor want to collect DNA from innocent people?

I thought Republicans want less government. Now a Republican Governor wants to monitor citizens with tax payer money. Sounds like a double standard. This must be the new face of the Republican Party.

Bowlgal: He might have been referring to the comment by Woody.

He is going to spend $1million to hire 5 employees! You could practically hire a whole school district of teachers for that much money.

jocose, why do you say idiot? Is keeping us safer a problem for you?

He sure has a lot of money for a state that is pennyless

Question are they not doing this already in cases of rape and sexual assault?

Idiot.

See...government DOES make jobs, and BIGGER government!