Blogging Blue

Things are getting interesting in Cudahy. Not only have some citizens who support putting a Wal-Mart in Cudahy’s “city center” started a recall of Mayor Ryan McCue, but now comes a report by Randy Hollenbeck of The Way I See It that the ever-popular Citizens For Responsible Government have gotten involved. I would have thought that that folks from CRG would have crawled back under their collective rocks after their Franklin group - which was founded by Orville Seymer - was accused of violating state campaign finance laws.

Here’s my favorite excerpt from the Milwaukee JournalSentinel’s article:

The group [Franklin CRG] made what turned out to be false or exaggerated claims against opponents in fliers, claiming in one case that the candidate knew a sex-offender home was being planned for Franklin and that the candidate did nothing to fight a landfill expansion whose height would “exceed the Empire State Building.”

Apparently CRG has gone fishing in Cudahy, filing an open records request for a list of all City of Cudahy officials who have access to a city-issued credit card, as well as copies of credit card statements for said credit cards. I’m wondering what CRG - who coincidentally are assisting with the recall effort against Mayor McCue - are hoping to find in the city’s credit card records, because this seems to me to be nothing more than a fishing expedition by a group known for engaging in witch hunts. In any case, I’ve included a copy of the open records request below.

Greg Kowalski over at Metro Milwaukee Today has much, much more on this situation.

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