Just a few links to start you out today….
- The Chief has an excellent writeup on the GOP double standard that seems to exist for Pastor David King, who’s running for Wisconsin Secretary of State.
- Over at eau-snap! (a blog worth reading, by the way), I’ve been named Viking of the Month, an award coveted around the world as the quintessential emblem of bloggy awesomeness. Truly, I’m honored.
- Over at Playground Politics, the Recess Supervisor has a great map outlining how many counties were won by Mark Neumann, despite his defeat at the hands of Scott Walker.
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has the story of Kenneth Kratz, the Calument County District Attorney, who sent a bunch of sexually aggressive text messages to the victim in a domestic violence case he was prosecuting, and curiously the story isn’t getting much play among conservative bloggers in the Cheddarsphere. Boots and Sabers has the story, but curiously they don’t mention the fact that Kratz is a Republican, leaving me to wonder if they’d be so kind if the perpetrator was a Democrat. It’s worth noting that despite outrage from victims’ rights groups, Kratz has said he’ll run for reelection in 2012.
People who want to be DAs tend to pick whichever party is the one that always wins in the county. Calumet County normally votes for Republicans, so Kratz ran as a Republican. Most DAs aren’t particularly political and their politics hardly ever matters for their actions. I do not think that Van Hollen discouraged followup because Kratz was Republican.