Posted on 07/17/2015 2:10:22 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
On July 16, we saw the definitive end to one of the greatest abuses of power in recent memory. After five years, the Wisconsin supreme court finally halted the Milwaukee district attorney’s notorious “John Doe” investigation that targeted Governor Scott Walker and political allies trying to reform the state’s laws regarding fiscally ruinous public employee unions. Imagine a grand jury investigation but without the jury, leaving a prosecutor who operates secretly—in this case, the district attorney’s investigation was headed by one John Chisholm—with almost sole discretion to pursue whatever evidence he deems relevant to his investigation. (There was nominal supervision from a judge who seems to have exercised no oversight.)....
According to the Wisconsin supreme court’s ruling halting the investigation—it had previously been put on hold by state and federal courts—“as part of this dragnet, the special prosecutor also had seized wholly irrelevant information, such as retirement income statements, personal financial account information, personal letters, and family photos.” Further, “this conclusion ends the John Doe investigation because the special prosecutor’s legal theory is unsupported in either reason or law.” That bit about the investigation not being founded in “reason” is a remarkable statement coming from a panel of judges. It’s legalese for shouting “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” at the prosecutor.....
The national media were perversely unmoved by the horrors accompanying the John Doe investigation, no doubt because it cast discredit on the motives of unions, campaign finance activists, and other favored groups and distracted from the evil personified by Governor Scott Walker. And so they have largely ignored the appalling abuses.
But the rest of us should not forget the name John Chisholm or the willingness of liberal “good government” crusaders to abandon any respect for basic rights the moment they have an opportunity to go after their enemies.
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Okay, so your employer is vindicated, but that still doesn’t make him a viable or good presidential candidate. He’s just another flavor of Bush, Rubio, and the rest. Doesn’t stand a chance against Bush, much less against Trump and Cruz.
Personally, I think our jobs as conservatives here is to do anything and everything we can to see to it that Jeb Bush does not get the nomination. He is job one. If he is knocked out of the contest, then the conservatives have a chance, IMO.
1. The impeachment proceedings against Richard Nixon which were unique in that many of the charges against him might have been levied against Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, and, especially, Lyndon Johnson.
2. The prosecution of Scooter Libby in which special prosecutor Fitzgerald conducted a jihad in search of a crime.
3. The outrageous persecution of Tom Delay.
4. The baseless ethics charges arrayed against Sarah Palin.
Anyone who promoted this evil investigation on FR is a demonic liberal troll.
I agree with your “IMO”! There’s still time ahead to move a conservative candidate to the front - but now all effort should got to stopping Bush. He needs to be pushed down to 4th or 5th place - or better - off the list entirely.
I am not employed by any candidate or PAC.
Nice Saul Alinsky comment.
bttt!
Right on!
CW: I’ve noticed a larger than usual bunch of trolls on FR lately.
OUR side needs to get these John Doe investigations into the public eye. Most people have no clue about this police state action.
Hey Reno,
Just let her go. She is her own worst enemy just as in the last cycle when she was just as over the top “all-in” for Rick Perry as she is now with Walker, and we know how that one turned out. Perry was his own worst enemy.
But, I will say on this issue, Walker has standing on some issues, today. His major overriding problem comes when the debates start and he has to answer for where he stood on them before it became politically expedient to “change”, “evolve” or whatever the current vernacular is today for what was simply known as a “flip-flop”. His tendency, to me, shows a man without a principled public compass as his personal one comes into conflict with the political one. This s where I get that Spidy-sense tingling thing going on just as when I saw Obama’s 2004 DNC speech.
Only Walker himself has the chance to subdue the tingling but CW’s insatiable posting just gives me more reasons to dig further.
The fact is, he does stand a chance against all of the outright RINO’s but we need to be vigilant against what is said vs. what is done. Not being so got this country what we have now and that vigilance needs to be sharply honed when making our choices in our overall aim of decimating the establishment Ruling Class. In my book, he still has that foot still securely in that door as evidenced by the public support occasionally proclaimed by Paul Ryan.
I have to admit, Walker has merit, but that is it. By “CW” being “all-in” does not serve her choice as she expects because she offers to us, who are vigilant, the opportunity to see and read what is not available easily elsewhere for us to have a lead on our research.
So let her go, call her on what is obvious propaganda and leave it as that. On this “John Doe” investigation, the Judge was not looking out for Walker but I would submit he had far more personal reasons for killing it. If it were allowed to remain, everyone would have been subject to the “cleansing”, including himself long before the average Joe.
None of me, all Walker.
On Feb. 23, 2015 Rush Limbaugh mentioned this debate [linked below] between WI Gov. Scott Walker and the Mayor of Milwaukee, WI [who was challenging Walker in a recall election after he "broke" union hold on the state].
It's an hour but by watching it ALL you will have a good idea how Scott Walker campaigns, debates and interacts with the media and critics.
I agree with your overall point and as I said, CW is the all-in, not Walker. He has merit, but his aligning on public policy issues with the Ruling Class well before his running intentions and then trying to walk it back afterwards, no pun intended, is what gives me pause. That is it, just pause as I did with Cruz on the H1-B issue, although it was mostly a ruse to kill the Dream Act.
Interesting video CW.
Do you know if Wisconsin has passed right to work legislation?
Yes.
The state legislature drew it up and passed it, and Walker happily signed it.
Why don’t you back up this “ruling class” policy BS with some facts.
The leftist haters of Walker are identified.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
Understood. Thanks.
Don’t forget Perry’s indictment in Texas, and Christie’s bridgegate. Wasn’t Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison also prosecuted by Delay’s prosecutor.
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