"Sorry for the Late Ping," Ping! You all probably know how this turned out already, but I said I'd follow up. :)
State Rep. Scott Jensen, once considered a likely future candidate for governor, could only sit at the defense table and listen as prosecutors in his misconduct trial told jurors he violated his duty by using state-paid employees as campaign operatives.
"He could only sit" is an apt description. They replayed portions of actual courtroom testimony on the Jeff Wagner Show (Jeff is a former Federal prosecutor) on conservative radio AM 620, Milwaukee.
It was shameless. Jeff said the judge was seeming to send it to the appeals court himself.
Every time it was brought up that he was following in the footsteps of the Dem administrations there before, it was objected by the prosecutor and sustained by the judge -- reasonably arguable (I don't want the Republicans to be using the weak defense often used by the Dems--sounds too whiny. And sounds -- too Dem).
In fact, it looked (anecdotally) that NO testimony about Dims would be let on the Defense case.
What I found particularly heinous were the objections sustained by the judge when the defense tried to bring in evidence of when the Ethics Committee called him and asked him for stuff that assumed he was running it the same way his predecessors ran the office.
Appeal, Mr. Jensen!