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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -
Oral arguments in the appeal of a federal judge's ruling halting an investigation into Gov. Scott Walker's recall campaign and other conservative groups have been set for Sept. 9, exactly two months before the Republican stands for re-election.
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago set the argument date late Tuesday. The court will also hear arguments over a media coalition's request that all records in the case be made public.
No charges have been filed against Walker or anyone else as a result of the investigation, which began in secret in 2012 but has since been largely revealed through court filings and other public statements.
Prosecutors have said in court filings that they are looking into allegations of illegal campaign activity involving Walker's campaign, Wisconsin Club for Growth, the state chamber of commerce and conservative groups during the 2011 and 2012 recalls.
http://www.news8000.com/news/oral-arguments-set-in-john-doe-appeal/27224008
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)... Then there's the issue of her phoning in her campaign. I anticipate she'll get trounced in November, but if Walker's corruption is sufficiently exposed before then, it may "save" her campaign.
Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)Wait till after labor day.
7/24 CBS News/NYT/YouGov Poll Burke 46% to Walker 47%
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Specifically, MJS reporter Dave Umhoefer would have time to write about the poll before the other news media could even see the results. The "spin" would from WPRI and Umhoefer! The key participants in this drama were Lightbourne, Ken Goldstein and Charles Franklin. It should be noted that Mike Gousha is part of the Marquette poll and that pro-voucher former MJS education reporter Alan Borsuk has joined Team Marquette as well.
When WPRI found, to its dismay, that open records laws applied to its deal with UW, because the UW is a public institution and the public has a right to know what the UW is doing, that killed the partnership. Instead of fighting the decision, Goldstein and Franklin took leaves from UW Poli Sci while they proceeded to pursue their plans. Goldstein formed a company, and Franklin went to Marquette Law School to "provide unbiased polling results in a volatile political year like 2012." How would Marquette define Franklin's role? Who would pay for the expenses of polling? Who would frame the questions? Who would have final say? Does MJS still have an exclusive? We asked the MJS several times if the paper knew who was funding the polling, who had final say on questions, and what Franklin's title would be. We never got an answer. Nada, nothing, no-way.
Franklin has been described as "director of the poll"; on "sabbatical"; on leave; and a "visiting professor" of law and public policy." Is he "visiting" from UW Madison? If so, shouldn't they be subject to Open Records? The Law School, in a burst of braggadocio, said recently "if polling provides the voice of the total population, the Marquette Law School Poll is the leading vehicle for that voice to get heard this year, amid all the partisan rhetoric and advertising sweeping across the state." As Ed Koch would say, paaaahhleeezee!
You are correct that I don't like Mary Burke - a conservative pretending to be a Democrat - but that doesn't mean the Marquette Poll should be given any credence. The people who back it have an agenda.
Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)The numbers have always been right on within the MOE, sorry.