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Gov. Scott Walker announced earlier this week he’s renewing the appointment of Laurie McCallum, wife of former GOP Gov. Scott McCallum, to serve on the state Labor and Industry Review Commission, an administrative panel that decides appeals in unemployment insurance, worker’s compensation and equal rights cases.

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Laurie McCallum, an attorney, has a long history in state government. She served as an assistant legal counsel to Gov. Lee Dreyfus, a Republican who served from 1979 to 1983. She later chaired the state Personnel Commission, a panel that was dissolved in 2003 when its duties were rolled into the state Department of Workforce Development and the Employment Relations Commission.

Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson appointed Laurie McCallum to the Labor and Industry Review Commission during his tenure. Then, under Democrat Jim Doyle, she worked for the Commission as a staff attorney. Now, Walker is re-appointing her to serve on the panel. By the time she retires, Laurie McCallum will have built a fine pension based on more than three decades of services.

Meanwhile, Scott McCallum has gotten a job heading a major non-profit, Aidmatrix, with offices in Texas, India and Germany.

He’s served as the organization’s CEO since 2005. Aidmatrix develops software that non-profits use to manage donations, supplies, volunteers and finance.

“We’ve got 40,000 different organizations worldwide that use Aidmatrix,” McCallum said in a recent interview with KDAF-TV in Dallas. “Almost all of the charitable food in the U.S. goes through Aidmatrix technology.”

According to an Aidmatrix tax return, he received $367,895 in compensation in 2009, about three times more than he earned as governor.

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