Jeff Plale has a new defense against claims that he got a $90,000 state job from Gov. Scott Walker as payback for voting against ratifying state employee contracts.
It wasn't payback, Plale says, it was cronyism.
Plale tells WKOW-TV in Madison:
Governor Walker and I have been friends since we were 19 years old at Marquette. It'sno secret that he and I have had a long friendship. I'm honored and flattered,."
Gee, not a word about being qualified. Maybe it's time to just put a sock in it, Citizen Plale.