Just a quick hit…the Milwaukee Journal website is currently featuring an article saying the Republican US Senate candidate Erick Hovde wants to sue over an attack ad! He is accusing his major opponent, Tommy Thompson, of being behind the ad…or maybe he’s not…depends. But the actual group running the ad is the Americans for Job Security and the ad accuses Hovde’s companies of accepting stimulus money. So that’s the short and sweet…but read the rest it’s kinda interesting.
But here’s my take away from the article: Mr. Hovde is quoted as saying:
“This is the very heart of why our political system is broken,” Hovde said in an interview. “Money pours in. You don’t know where it’s coming from . . . This is robbing us of our democracy.”
So, any moment now we should hear that Mr. Hovde has added campaign finance reform to his platform…right?
Hovde is having too much fun running and it’s leaving the impression that’s all he’s good for. Just goes to show, spending money only works if you know what you’re doing.
The Supreme Court has said that money is speech, so Hovde will do great!
“We don’t have government anymore, we have an auction.” -Lori Compas
Wait until Thompson and Neumann try to tie Eric Hovde to Lori Compas over this…
I find the education of young minds right out in the arena of public discourse heartwarming!
Mr. Hovde, whose family I have had some failed dealings with, might now begin to understand that, when the barriers of priviledge come down, we all must live with these distressing ambiguities. Our hearts, but not our votes or wallets, go out the the young man, who, despite his many years of swimming in the Shark Tank, seems to never have actually been bitten, or even brushed up against the rough shagreen of what it is like when Anonymous Bank Accounts Buy the World As We Know It.
He will not get this connection, of course, but it now a matter of public record that he has had his chance.
MBB
I’m sure Justice Gableman and all the other wingnuts on the WI Supreme Court were thrilled that Eric raised this.
From 2010
“Supreme Court justices hear arguments in a case against one of their own”
….If the justices find that Gableman lied, they have the power to reprimand Gableman, censure him, suspend him without pay or remove him from the bench. Abrahamson’s comments that the justices will continue to work with Gableman no matter what appears to take off the table the option of expelling him from the court.
It remains an open question whether Gableman will face any discipline. The high court’s leanings could not be gleaned from the questioning, although some justices appeared skeptical of the allegations.
The split among the six justices hearing the case raises the possibility of a 3-3 split on whether Gableman violated the ethics code. A majority is needed to find he violated the ethics code…..
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/91070829.html
This is what happens when they blindly co-opt the language of the left. As soon as we start to get a little traction with a concept they start saying the same thing about us just to dilute the argument.
It’s led to some really classic displays of hypocrisy. Someone should do a coffee table book.