In Walker's Wisconsin, it's never "agree to disagree"-- it's agree to agree with the Governor.

If you don't, you'll end up like former Republican State Senator Mike Ellis.

Ellis was Wisconsin's longest serving Republican state senator and, although he historically had been considered a staunch conservative, after the Walker caliphate was installed in 2011, he came to be viewed more and more as a moderate because he dared to be something other than a yes man.

So, Walker had him whacked-- at least that was the rumor. No, no, no silly rabbit, not that kind of whacked-- he killed his political career by having the notorious political mercenary, James O'Keefe (of New Jersey) pay a visit to Wisconsin and bait Ellis into saying embarrassing things into a hidden camera. (So embarrassing, in fact, that Ellis decided not to seek re-election in 2014.)

At the time, everyone in Wisconsin was scratching their collective cheeseheads wondering why in the hell James O'Keefe would be interested in A) putting a hit on a fellow Republican and B) wasting his time with an obscure state Senator in Wisconsin. The only obvious answer: Scott Walker was tired of Ellis being only a 90% head-nodder and put out a hit on him.

But like most rumors, there wasn't any proof tying Walker to O'Keefe and it faded into the political ether. Another cold case never to be solved... wait... what's this?

Cue the theme to the A-Team, as Kool-Aid Man busts through a wall, because the gumshoes over at the Center for Media and Democracy just found a pretty big smoking gun: A financial disclosure that Scott Walker's bag man, Eric O'Keefe (no relation to James) just happened to pay James O'Keefe fifty thousand dollars around the same time that James O'Keefe's crew of mercenaries just happened to come to Wisconsin and just happened to seek out Ellis for an embarrassing secret video.

This also just happened to be the same James O'Keefe who Eric O'Keefe was pictured yukking it up with back in 2011-- see above. (Hmmm.... I wonder what they were talking about.)

And this is the same Eric O'Keefe who is currently at the center of a John Doe investigation that alleges that O'Keefe aided Scott Walker in a "criminal scheme" to essentially allow illegal corporate and other banned donations into Walker's recall campaign in 2012.

Ironically, the big embarrassing revelation that James O'Keefe was able to catch Mike Ellis talking about was a boast that he could easily set up a dark money group, illegally control the group's actions, and then blow a potential Dem candidate out of the water with a flood of illegal campaign money.

Imagine that happening.

