Posted on 11/20/2013 9:09:08 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Conservative political entities who supported Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker are being subjected to a secret investigation. Special Prosecutor Francis Schmitz has issued a series of subpoenas to 29 conservative groups, demanding that they submit all documentation related to the recall campaigns mounted by unions and their supporters against Walker in 2011 and 2012. The investigation is being conducted under the auspices of the state’s John Doe law, which forbids the targets of subpoenas from revealing the contents of those subpoenas to anyone other than their lawyers.
The effort reeks of political intimidation. According to the Wall Street Journal, the two subpoenas they’ve reviewed demand ”all memoranda, email . . . correspondence, and communications” within the targets of the subpoenas themselves, and between those targets and conservative groups such as the Friends of Scott Walker and the Republican Party of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, Americans for Prosperity-Wisconsin, American Crossroads, the Republican Governors Association, and the League of American Voters.
In a transparent effort to determine an entity’s list of campaign donors, one subpoena demands ”all records of income received, including fundraising information and the identity of persons contributing to the corporation.”
The investigation originated in the office of Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf. Landgraf works for Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm, a Democrat. This latest John Doe investigation is the second one being conducted against Walker in only three-and-a-half years, and it was initiated just days before Democrat Mary Burke, a member of the Madison School Board, announced her intention to run for governor.
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More on the outrageous secret probe attempt to unseat Scott Walker
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There should be some way to put a stop to this.
Both of these men should be removed from office.
This is downright shameful
Reeks of Nazism.
So many liberals act like thug hate groups. If you don’t think like they do, they act like thugs and are intolerant of those with opposing points of view.
The conservative groups should get together and file a suit under RICO statutes.
Who is issuing the subpoenas?
Can they be appealed or otherwise quashed? Why can’t the contents be revealed? what is the purpose of that?
Never heard of such...need some insight here...
Sure sounds fascist.
Call it what it is.. Abuse of power.
The DAs and ADAs of Milwaukee and Dane Counties — the 2 liberal (Communist) bastions in WI.
Apparently we have this procedure in WI of allowing “John Doe probes” which are conducted in secret. The secrecy extends to anyone subpoened by the investigating body. No one can comment, or they will be jailed. It does sound Kafkaesque, doesn’t it?
The head of Club for Growth (O’Keefe) is risking jail because he spoke up and said that all his records had been subpoenaed.
The AP-written story in the Green Bay Press Gazette about this was shameful. Most probably ignored the story, but if you weren’t following hte story you’d swear that the R’s are a bunch of crooks and this rebel was going to fix things.
I should add that what they seem to be after are the donor lists.
No...they should just ignore them and then wait for their next move!
Trickle-down fascism.
Not a very SECRET ‘Secret Operation’ anymore, is it?
Where are our Senators and Congresscritters?
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