'Get rid of the MD asap,' Walker replied in an email about the doctor. Email: Doctor fired over thong past

Emails released Wednesday reveal that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker might have been behind the firing of a woman because she was a former thong model.

Walker’s chief of staff at the time, Thomas Nardelli, informed him of a doctor at the Milwaukee County Behavior Health Division who had a “checkered past” and had worked as a model, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.


“It isn’t pornographic,” Nardelli wrote, according to a copy of the email reported by the Huffington Post. “[But] it is quite suggestive (I’m told - I don’t know her name). He [sic] apparently models thongs and wasn’t forthright in sharing that with staff prior to her hire as an hourly paid MD at [Behavioral Health Division].”

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Though the email said she was competent, the division’s director was looking for a way to dismiss her “without much fanfare” because he was concerned the staff would discover her “other life,” he explained.

“Get rid of the MD asap,” Walker replied.

The emails are among the some 27,000 from a former Walker aide who is appealing her conviction of misconduct in office that a court ordered become public Wednesday.

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