Well conservatives got their victory against public workers today and the right wing groups are out with their ads about how great Scott Walker is. But everything isn’t perfect here for him in Wisconsin.

Sportsmen’s grant adopted despite warnings over loss of federal funding

GOP lawmakers plunged ahead with a controversial $500,000 grant to a politically connected sportsmen’s group even though U.S. officials had warned Gov. Scott Walker’s administration that the move endangered $28 million a year in federal money, records show.

Thedecision by the Walker administration and top Republican lawmakers to quietly handle the problems with the now-canceled grant left the public, Democrats and even some Republicans in the dark. It also ended up putting state taxpayers entirely on the hook for the grant.

Also Wednesday, the United Sportsmen of Wisconsin Inc. reacted to a Tuesday report in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel by apologizing for making yet another misrepresentation of its tax status. The conservative group said it had hired a new attorney in an attempt to sort out its botched accounting and apparent failures to comply with state and federal law.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sent two sharply worded letters to the state Department of Natural Resources after lawmakers on the budget committee hastily slipped the grant into the state budget. The letters said the proposal would cost the state $28 million in annual federal money because the DNR would not have adequate control of how the grant funds were used.

Man I need a drink.