Sept. 17, 2014 Latest John Doe Court Hearing Dispels Right-Wing Myths
I certainly am not getting my hopes up that the investigation will continue!! But...in the meantime....
Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014
Latest John Doe Court Hearing Dispels Right-Wing Myths
Federal judges will decide if investigation should have been shut down
By Lisa Kaiser
Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014
................Last Tuesday’s oral arguments yielded few clues about how the panel will rule on the case, or when.
But the judges’ questions—along with a brief filed by attorneys for Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm and other prosecutors and investigators being sued by O’Keefe and the Club—shed light on the many myths being promoted by right-wing activists in court and in the media.
Myth: Chisholm is obsessed with Scott Walker, an obsession fueled by his wife’s tears over the damage done by the governor’s public union-busting Act 10. For Chisholm, it’s personal. And political, too, since he’s a highly partisan Democratic prosecutor.
Fact: This is the right wing’s new meme, first “reported” by a highly unreliable right-wing blog affiliated with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and now repeated as a matter of faith by gullible conservatives, including Charlie Sykes. The accusation is from an anonymous source. Chisholm’s wife, a public school teacher, is now labeled by the right wing as a “union operative.”
It is true that Chisholm doesn’t reveal the information that he received that caused him to look into Walker’s coordination with Wisconsin Club for Growth. But we do know that it’s highly unlikely that his wife’s tears caused so many people across the political spectrum to join him in his “obsession” to take down Walker.
As Chisholm’s brief states, “five separate county district attorneys, two retired Wisconsin judges, a career federal prosecutor, professional investigators, and a nonpartisan state agency comprised of all former judges” all agreed that the John Doe was not frivolous. Nor would they have known that Chisholm’s wife was upset about Act 10........
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