Apparently all it takes the MJS to fly off the handle and publish an entire news article about how there’s the possibility of wrongdoing from the Linda Clifford camp the day of the election is a single disgruntled and confused resident of Glendale:
Marvin E. Engler of Glendale said he thought the call from Clifford’s campaign was from the Journal Sentinel.
Engler said he was bothered by “the endless number” of phone calls from campaigns, particularly because he is on the state’s do-not-call list. JSonline.com
How is this in any way news, or how can any justification be given of the MJS calling an entire campaigns ethics into question the day of the election based on a single person? Anyone? Editorial Staff? Former MJS employees?
They’re creeping towards Fox News levels of respect here and aren’t even trying to hide their complete disdain for anything non-GOP anymore.
Ridiculous.
I live in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee, WI with my wife Jen, our daughter Emerson, and sons Carter and Colton.
Didn’t I tell you recently that I wasn’t voting for Clifford because her campaign used an automated calling machine to leave a message on my answering machine. I believe that only politicians are allowed to do that (other groups are excepted to have humans do this even if you are on the do not call list) and politicians that care more about winning than doing what’s right, aren’t going to get my vote.
In my case though, I don’t remember the MSJ being listed as a supporter. But I got the call before the primary.
Bruno: I got several autocalls from WMC for Ziegler, plus a couple from Wis. Right to Life. One of the WMC calls used Clifford’s own voice in a clip saying she was not a judge. But I was not fooled into thinking Clifford was endorsing Ziegler. Guess I’m smarter than Engler.
What was reported in the original JS online story, but not in the one that ran today in the paper and online, is that Engler said he was a Ziegler supporter and that he hung up before it got to the disclaimer to say who paid for it.
My take.
While I didn’t get a call from Ziegler’s campaign, I didn’t like her as a candidate either. Besides the phone calls, the attack ads run by or on behalf of both Clifford and Ziegler were over the top and didn’t have much to do with supreme court justices jobs.
I ended up writing in Sommers.
I got an official, identified robocall from the Ziegler Campaign, Tommy’s voice. Not “negative.”
This is drifting a bit, but by the fall elections I should have asterisk (or openpbx) running and if I can get my wife to let me, people will have to dial extensions to get our phone to ring. This should stop auto dialers from getting through.
P.S. Ben, I voted for you for U.S. Senate (writing you in in the final election). If I had known about your $1 donation campaign fundraising in time, I would have donated. I’ll be keeping an eye out if I hear you are running for office again.
Quick fact-check for anyone interested: do-not-call lists do not apply to political campaigns.
I know that politicians carved themselves an exception to the Do not call list rules. That doesn’t make it right (only legal) to call numbers on that list. Politicians that do so make it clear that they don’t care about your interests, only theirs.