Special to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Editor's Note: The newsroom and advertising departments at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel operate independently. The Journal Sentinel published a PolitiFact Wisconsin story Oct. 4 detailing that the impeachment articles against Meagan Wolfe are riddled with false and misleading claims. A Nov. 2 story on the $100,000 ad buy noted the false claims made in the spots.
Democratic strategist James Carville once said, “Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find.” This was Carville’s way of defending President Clinton against claims of sexual assault. So much for the idea that women deserve to be believed. Carville, in his own misogynist way, was describing the political form of grifting, taking advantage of political events to get rich.
During my two stints on the Wisconsin Elections Commission, I have called out grifters. In 2016, when Jill Stein used a certain-to-fail recount to raise millions of dollars, I called her campaign a grift-PAC. More recently, I have called out those grifters who peddle lies about Wisconsin’s election system to generate donations.
Demonstrating how profitable grifting can be, some of these same grifters are spending more than $100,000 to peddle lies about Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe, urging legislators to impeach her. Let me be clear, not everyone who believes Wolfe should be removed as administrator...
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