“It isn’t equivocation”
Sorry, but the poster I responded definitely was equivocating... “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” is exactly that. If you want to argue that Walker and his aides didn’t do anything wrong, then fine, I don’t have a problem with that if you can back that up.
However, if you want to say these laws are so hard to follow that we should just ignore people who do violate them, then you are equivocating and excusing criminal behavior.
Do you know how silly these convictions are?
There was a low level secretarial type staffer who -during work hours - posted a comment on a news story using a pseudonym on the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel website. The Urinal-Slantinel violated their own privacy policy and gave up this poor woman to the Milwaukee DA to help him attempt to build a larger case against Walker.
Should she have been using county property and work time to post on a public website? No.
But, this woman lost her job and had her professional career and personal finances ruined as a result of her minor indiscretion.
As Milwaukee County Executive, Walker requested the initial investigation because his staff suspected malfeasances with a veterans' benefit fund that had devolved into county control. That low level aide did steal from the fund. That should have been the end of the investigation.
Instead, it was discovered that his live-in boyfriend possessed child porn and had engaged in child solicitation. The DA had this pervert dead to rights, but delayed charging him in a bogus attempt to build a case against Walker.
Next came the above-mentioned prosecution of the newspaper website poster. By this time Walker had been elected Governor, so the unwarranted investigation moved to Madison. From there, the DA moved to find violations of campaign laws - where he found one lone instance of a violation by a minor Walker who held a second job running a minor (and losing) campaign of a politician not in Walker's camp.
After years of finding mainly nothing (and that is the reality of the convictions loudly cited by conservativejoy in this thread), the DA moved on to attempting to criminalize political free speech. The DA has been repeatedly slapped down by supervising judges, his subpoenas have been quashed, he has been ordered to cease his investigation because there is no probable cause or crime and he has now been sued for violating the constitutional rights of his latest targets.
In the meantime, the DA has refused to disclose how much this "investigation" has cost taxpayers. Yes, a crime has been committed. The Milwaukee DA has stolen millions - perhaps hundreds of millions - from Wisconsin taxpayers.
How's that for equivocation!!!!