During a meeting Thursday with the Editorial Board of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Republican Attorney General candidate Brad Schimel
showed his political cowardice by refusing to directly call his opponent Susan Happ a liar while standing by statements made by his campaign calling Happ a liar.
“I’m not going to accuse her of lying. But I know this: on Sunday she misstated the facts,” Schimel said.
Schimel acknowledged his campaign has released public statements calling Happ a liar and said he was comfortable with that. He said he understood Happ mixing up dates in the debate, but added misstating that the land deal was completed before she got the case “strikes me as a harder mistake to make.”
The fact that Brad Schimel would rather hide behind his campaign as they hurl attack after attack at Susan Happ says a lot about the kind of person he is, and it speaks volumes about the kind of Attorney General he’d be if elected. I’ve long believed leaders are supposed to lead, but what we’ve all seen from Brad Schimel is that he’d rather hide behind his staff and while waiting for his next set of marching orders from the Republican establishment.
Considering the raft of yes-people Republicans legislators are in reflexively enacting ALEC legislation and considering the raft of non-professional political cronies that Walker has appointed to replace formerly non-partisan and professionally competent heads of about 40 state departments, it is not hard to figure out how Schimel fits in the scheme of that crowd.
Just bright enough to respond to dog whistles and inside orders and probably will not demand as high a wage as someone like Van Hollen to buy legal decisions and who will likely be moving on to greener pa$ture$.