AUDIO: Did Scott Walker Get Crank-Call Pwned? YES.

This is a breaking story that most of you have heard already, but being that I’m on the west coast, I just became aware of it.

I love this story.

I love this story so much.

The legal ramifications are many, so it’s wait and see time, and I hear there’s more to come. More what? I don’t know, but a source emailed me and said those words, so, along with you, I’m waiting to hear what that means.

Now hop on over to Mother Jones, because the site that had the original post and audio (BuffaloBeast.com) has crashed from all the traffic:

According to the audio, Walker told him:

• That statehouse GOPers were plotting to hold Democratic senators’ pay until they returned to vote on the controversial union-busting bill.

• That Walker was looking to nail Dems on ethics violations if they took meals or lodging from union supporters.

• That he’d take “Koch” up on this offer: “[O]nce you crush these bastards I’ll fly you out to Cali and really show you a good time.”

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s office confirms that the recording of a call between the governor and an alt-weekly writer posing as David Koch, one of the billionaire GOP financier brothers, is real and that it is actually Walker on the recording. The governor’s office has released a statement:

The Governor takes many calls everyday,” Walkers spokesman, Cullen Werwie said in a statement. “Throughout this call the Governor maintained his appreciation for and commitment to civil discourse. He continued to say that the budget repair bill is about the budget. The phone call shows that the Governor says the same thing in private as he does in public and the lengths that others will go to disrupt the civil debate Wisconsin is having.

Walker actually thinks he is conspiring with a billionaire fundraiser to crush organized labor. Oops.

If this is true, and it appears that it is, and he has colluded in any way with the Koch brothers to craft legislation, “that’s a Richard Nixon kind of crime,” per Thom Hartmann just now. In the call, you can hear them discuss political strategy.

Punk’d. And busted.

UPDATE: The audio is on YouTube, so here you go: