Bum's Bluff

Jensen taking his friends down with him?

Some very interesting tidbits coming out of the Scooter Jensen trial - rather than rehash the latest, I encourage you to check out Bill Christofferson's coverage.

What I will add is my confusion over what Jensen must have been thinking in taking this to trial! His defense has been two-fold so far:

1. Everyone else was doing this too, and
2. This was going on before he was elected to office.

And the point is? Campaign ethics laws, weak as they might be in Wisconsin, are still pretty clear that State workers absolutely may not campaign on state time, using state property, in state buildings. I don't think there is any "consensus" clause that makes it legal if enough people are breaking the law with you.

What surprises me even more than his lame defense is that Scooter seems to be okay with bringing down all of his political allies with him! Gubernatorial candidate, Mark Green is now fully implicated as well - even if no charges are ever brought against him, Jensen just handed Doyle and Scott Walker one hell of a campaign issue.

To be fair to both sides of the isle - I wish Chuck Chuala would have lived up to his arrogance more and gone to trial. Full exposure on both sides of the isle might finally wake up some citizens and convince them how poorly represented they are by either party!

posted by Walton @ 11:05 AM