WI Gov didn’t ask about student board nominee, and he didn’t tell

By M.D. Kittle and Ryan Ekvall | Wisconsin Reporter

MADISON – It’s not about politics, it’s about integrity.

That’s how Regina Millner, a member of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, sums up the flap over Gov. Scott Walker’s decision to withdraw his nomination to the board a university student who signed the petition to recall the Republican governor.

“I think the rationale is not simply signing the petition; it’s about being forthcoming. That represents a real issue,” Millner told Wisconsin Reporter Wednesday.

Right Wisconsin, a news site led by conservative radio talk show host Charlie Sykes, first broke the story on Tuesday that UW-Platteville student Joshua Inglett, Walker’s student nominee to a two-year term on the board, had signed the petition to oust Walker on Dec. 26, 2011.

On Wednesday, Walker spokesman Tom Evenson confirmed Inglett’s nomination has been withdrawn. He told Wisconsin Reporter the administration has no further comment on the matter, including whether the governor had sought to nix the nomination because, as Millner said, Inglett had not been forthcoming about signing the recall petition.