tinydancer
Diamond Member
Honest to heavens you can't make shit up like this. We're talking years of heavy handed investigations. Aye carumba!
Report: Wife's weeping over anti-union law drove Democratic DA to target Republican governor's staff and conservative activists with five-year investigation
Here's a bit from the article. My head was spinning faster than Linda Blair's in the Exorcist when I read this. Rest of article at link:
A Democratic district attorney who has pursued Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker over alleged campaign finance violations told a fellow prosecutor that his crying wife, a union official, drove him to hunt the governor and his conservative allies because of his anti-union laws feared by organized labor.
The explosive revelation came Tuesday as lawyers for Milwaukee DA John Chisholm began two days of oral arguments in a Chicago courtroom over earlier rulings that effectively ended his wide-ranging investigation.
The investigation aimed to show that conservative groups were illegally working hand-in-hand with Walker's office when they ran 'issue ads' pressing the case that public employee unions should face reforms.
Such arrangements, attorneys say, are common on both sides of the political aisle – including President Barack Obama's longstanding coordination with Priorities USA Action and other 'super PACs.'
Leaders of virtually every conservative political nonprofit in the Badger State, 29 in all, have found themselves swept up in Chisholm's criminal probe as they were hit with pre-dawn raids that seized their computers, cell phones, email records – and even a child's iPad.
DA John Chisholm wife s weeping over anti-union law drove him to target Scott Walker Mail Online
Report: Wife's weeping over anti-union law drove Democratic DA to target Republican governor's staff and conservative activists with five-year investigation
- Milwaukee DA John Chisholm pursued Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's staff and 29 conservative nonprofits for years
- Walker-backed laws curbing unions' power provoked a labor-led 2012 recall effort that narrowly failed
- Chisholm widened his investigation 18 times as the controversy raged, hunting Walker's allies with pre-dawn suburban raids
- Armed police seized computers, phones, the governor's private emails with donors – including Donald Trump – and even a child's iPad.
- Chisholm told a fellow prosecutor that he was motivated by weeping complaints from his wife, a schoolteacher and labor shop steward whose union stood to lose if Walker's policies prevailed.
Here's a bit from the article. My head was spinning faster than Linda Blair's in the Exorcist when I read this. Rest of article at link:
A Democratic district attorney who has pursued Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker over alleged campaign finance violations told a fellow prosecutor that his crying wife, a union official, drove him to hunt the governor and his conservative allies because of his anti-union laws feared by organized labor.
The explosive revelation came Tuesday as lawyers for Milwaukee DA John Chisholm began two days of oral arguments in a Chicago courtroom over earlier rulings that effectively ended his wide-ranging investigation.
The investigation aimed to show that conservative groups were illegally working hand-in-hand with Walker's office when they ran 'issue ads' pressing the case that public employee unions should face reforms.
Such arrangements, attorneys say, are common on both sides of the political aisle – including President Barack Obama's longstanding coordination with Priorities USA Action and other 'super PACs.'
Leaders of virtually every conservative political nonprofit in the Badger State, 29 in all, have found themselves swept up in Chisholm's criminal probe as they were hit with pre-dawn raids that seized their computers, cell phones, email records – and even a child's iPad.
DA John Chisholm wife s weeping over anti-union law drove him to target Scott Walker Mail Online
