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| Contributor | Penguin |
| Last Edited | Penguin Nov 07, 2005 07:21pm |
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| Category | Editorial |
| Media | Newspaper - Madison Capital Times |
| News Date | Sunday, November 6, 2005 01:20:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Capital Times :: EDITORIAL :: 10A
Saturday, November 5, 2005
The gang that couldn't shoot straight opened fire on Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager but instead wounded Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk.
On the same day that Lautenschlager was being praised by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as "the best attorney general in the United States," a group of legislators who are ill at ease with the fiercely independent attorney general publicly urged Falk to challenge her in next year's Democratic primary.
The anti-Lautenschlager initiative was a ham-handed stunt intended to undermine Lautenschlager on the day that the attorney general was being hailed by Kennedy, an environmental activist who is the heir to one of the most revered names in Democratic politics. And it quickly blew up in the face of its prime sponsor, Assembly Minority Leader Jim Kreuser, D-Kenosha. Marty Beil, the executive director of Wisconsin State Employees Union AFSCME Council 24, and Robert McLinn, the president of that powerful union, quickly dispatched a letter to Kreuser that left no doubt that the legislator had infuriated leaders of an organization that is critical to Democratic chances for retaking control of the Assembly.
Noting that Kreuser and his compatriots have had a hard time figuring out how to alter the minority status of Democrats in the Legislature, the letter from Beil and McLinn accused the Democratic leader of having "misplaced priorities and poor judgment." It also sent a clear signal that Kennedy's ringing endorsement of Lautenschlager is likely to be echoed by key players in the state's politics. |
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