Posted on 09/20/2014 6:21:04 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
MADISON, Wis. -- Democratic candidate for Wisconsin governor Mary Burke said Friday she cut ties with a consultant she blames for copying several sections of her jobs plan from platforms of other Democrats.
Burke has built her campaign around the jobs issue. One of her key arguments is Republican Gov. Scott Walker doesn't deserve re-election because he hasn't lived up to his promise to create 250,000 private-sector jobs, and Wisconsin is lagging other states in adding workers.
Burke told the Associated Press it was her decision to end the campaign's relationship with consultant Eric Schnurer of the Pennsylvania-based consulting firm Public Works, who provided the material.
"He should not have used the exact language that he used in other plans," Burke said.
Walker and other Republicans accused Burke of plagiarism.
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But the point is that this proves it isn’t HER plan, and this was supposed to be the main issue of her campaign. Yet she couldn’t even be bothered to think up her own plan. She didn’t even bother to plagiarize it herself.
Burke fires consultant for plagiearism. But, did she study it and approve it? Did she think these were her own words?
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
So intellectually challenged she had to plagiarize her policies.
So lazy she tasked someone else to do it.
So venal she forced the underling to take the blame.
Maybe she thought she had to be elected before she could know what was in it.
How about JB Van Hollen start a year-long ‘Jane Doe’ investigation into Mary Burke on what she knew and when she knew it?
*Crickets Chirping* *Rolleyes*
We really need to fight as dirty as the LefTards in this state do. Seriously. No mercy, no holds barred!
Just guessing here, but I’d take a guess that she lost five-percent of her followers over this. The rest will stick with her, but that was a pretty stupid mistake to make and how would you come back from this? Where does the new jobs plan come from, and will the press check to verify the new plan is original?
Precisely. The funny thing is, Burke's not the only one tainted by this. This episode suggests that candidates Jack Markell (D-Failed), Del. Gov. Ward Cammack and John Gregg (D-Failed)probably didn't have had an original idea in their heads when Eric Schnurer wrote "their" plans, either.
Since the lifted passages of the plan came from the consultant's own work for other politicians, it's not clear it was plagiarism in the sense that most think of it-- material stolen from another writer and presented as one's own. Here, the writer re-used his own words. But since he'd already sold those words to 3 others before Burke, he's likely in breach of 3 contracts.
Typically, contracts for ghostwriters have a clause that states the material is the writer's own, original work, and that he/she has the right to sell it. And as a work for hire, which this stuff probably was, the writer relinquishes all rights to the buyer.
Maybe the dems should just cut the middleman and run Schnurer for office. He's going to need a new line of work, anyway, as his prospects for consulting work just got a whole lot slimmer. Oh wait. He's a liberal Democrat. That antiquated ethics crap only applies to conservatives.
Inquiring minds want to know.
Of course, this is not a 6th grade term paper of Scott Walker's in which it was alleged that he stole a pencil to write it and never gave it back, so the "media" will have no interest in pursuing this story.
Maybe they should run that guy, at least he has a plan he believes in.
I wonder what the Madison School Board’s policy is re: plagiarism...inquiring minds want to know.
Didn’t realize the plan she pretended to write was plagiarized from someone else who pretended to write it.
JB is a big RINO. He’s not going to do anything!
Oh, I know that. I’m waiting for JB’s exit...
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