Hushed: Enabled by Cowardly Milwaukee County Board, Tea Party Sheriff David Clarke Promotes Walker John Doe Figure GOPFran

What follows is a guest blog by Graeme Zielinski.

Sources tell me that Tea Party nutjob David Clarke, fresh from being coddled by the Milwaukee County board, is giving Fran McLaughlin, a Scott Walker partisan who calls herself “GOPFran,” a promotion, possibly to the position of deputy inspector.

This as Clarke is cutting or demoting other sheriff’s deputies.

McLaughlin had been communications director for Scott Walker as county executive in the period in which many of the crimes convicted in the first John Doe corruption probe occurred, and was granted some form of immunity by prosecutors.

She was taken on by Walker ally David Clarke after Walker’s departure and has been closely tied to his Tea Party Republican advocacy in the wake of the Newtown, Sikh Temple and Azana Spa shootings.

McLaughlin, who has zero previous law enforcement experience, is a fierce partisan who has whitewashed Clarke’s absence during the spa and temple shootings, as well as assists his appearances on right-wing Tea Party talk shows to advance an extreme and dangerous advocacy against gun control.

County Executive Chris Abele targeted McLaughlin’s position for elimination in his budget, but the County Board gave Clarke several ways out. Instead of elimination, McLaughlin has won a promotion.

This is after my sources tell that Scott Walker himself personally asked that she be taken care of.

The board remained totally silent about McLaughlin’s purely partisan role in the Clarke administration-as well as her connection to crimes committed in the context of the first John Doe probe.

McLaughlin knows where the bodies are buried. Now, thanks the the Milwaukee County board, she will get her hush money-and Milwaukee County taxpayers crying for competent law enforcement will suffer.

For what it’s worth, I (Zach) have received information from multiple sources that Graeme’s report is indeed accurate and in the very near future Fran McLaughlin will be promoted to Deputy Inspector within the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office, where she’ll responsible for “community policing.”

When it comes to Scott Walker and Sheriff David Clarke, clearly it pays to be connected, and Fran McLaughlin’s pending promotion reeks of the kind of cronyism that has become all too commonplace in public service under conservatives like David Clarke and Scott Walker.

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5 thoughts on “Hushed: Enabled by Cowardly Milwaukee County Board, Tea Party Sheriff David Clarke Promotes Walker John Doe Figure GOPFran

  1. I’m not a big fan of the angry style that couches multiple accusations into the same sentence. Maybe I’m just mellowing in my years but this style is a turnoff. Let me give you an example.

    Here’s what was written:
    “Sources tell me that Tea Party nutjob David Clarke, fresh from being coddled by the Milwaukee County board, is giving Fran McLaughlin, a Scott Walker partisan who calls herself “GOPFran,” a promotion, possibly to the position of deputy inspector.”

    If he were to lose the attitude and stick to facts, this would be more credible.
    Example: “According to sources, whose anonymity we are protecting because of _______, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke will be promoting Republican partisan Fran McLaughlin.”

    The issue of whether Clarke is a “nutjob”, or whether or not the Milwaukee County Board has “coddled” him, should be left for the reader to decide. You can include a paragraph to support those accusations, but readers aren’t going to find a blog intriguing if it is simply littered with rhetoric and venom. You can’t assume that readers have read, or will read, your past articles, even if those articles may support the argument. If you don’t want to go that far, at least provide a link to articles that may support the premise.

  2. I’m not a big fan of the angry style that couches multiple accusations into the same sentence. Maybe I’m just mellowing in my years but this style is a turnoff. Let me give you an example.

    Here’s what was written:
    “Sources tell me that Tea Party nutjob David Clarke, fresh from being coddled by the Milwaukee County board, is giving Fran McLaughlin, a Scott Walker partisan who calls herself “GOPFran,” a promotion, possibly to the position of deputy inspector.”

    If he were to lose the attitude and stick to facts, this would be more credible.
    Example: “According to sources, whose anonymity we are protecting because of _______, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke will be promoting Republican partisan Fran McLaughlin.”

    The issue of whether Clarke is a “nutjob”, or whether or not the Milwaukee County Board has “coddled” him, should be left for the reader to decide. You can include a paragraph to support those accusations, but readers aren’t going to find a blog intriguing if it is simply littered with rhetoric and venom. You can’t assume that readers have read, or will read, your past articles, even if those articles may support the argument. If you don’t want to go that far, at least provide a link to articles that may support the premise.

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