couple days later at the urging of department C-E-O Reed Hall. The A-P and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel obtained e-mails in which business-and-industry development V-P Lee Swindall took issue with the leadership of the agency's chief operating officer, former Walker deputy chief-of-staff Ryan Murray.
Date: Sep 09, 2014
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
Walker, Burke exchange blasts on projected budget shortfall
ing WEDC "lasting harm." Emails released Monday laid bare a rift between Lee Swindall, the agency's vice president of business and industry development, who days later revoked his resignation, and Ryan Murray, the agency's chief operating officer and a former deputy chief of staff to the governor.
string of departures of top officials and critical audits showing mismanagement. In 2012, Walker assigned his then-deputy chief of staff Ryan Murray to work at the agency as its second-in-command to help root out problems and turn things around. But Murray's style rubbed Lee Swindall the wrong way.
Lee Swindall, vice president of business and industry development at the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, resigned his position on Aug. 25. In his resignation letter, Swindall blasts close Walker aide and WEDC Chief Operations Officer Ryan Murray, saying he lacks "either the talent or exp
"Merely because you are big and comprise a significant share of the state GDP doesn't necessarily mean you aren't vulnerable," said Lee Swindall, vice president of Business & Industry Development for the WEDC.