It’s been a constant theme throughout the campaign. Any tidbit of information that the Journal Sentinel can dredge up and print to make Gov. Jim Doyle look bad is done without any hesitation.
Today’s newsflash from Wisconsin’s largest daily newspaper: Third party interest groups actually paid for pro-Doyle advertising! Stop the presses!
A group running negative ads against Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Green landed more than $700,000 over two months from unions and a Democratic group – jsonline.com
Of course this isn’t news at all and is such a common occurance (not saying I agree with unlimited soft money attack ads by the way) in today’s political landscape that it doesn’t make news. Unions contributing money to re-elect a Democratic politician? Yawn. No kidding.
Unless we’re talking about the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and it has an anti-Doyle slant. Then it’s “news”.
This is just the latest example by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in what’s becoming a pattern of increasingly bizarre stories that can only be seen as a concerted effort on their part to influence the outcome of the election in favor of Rep. Mark Green.
And it needs to stop.
I’m half expecting to wake up 10 days from now and read a front headline that reads something like:
Gov. Doyle Accepted Campaign Contributions From Other Democrats Since 2002
I live in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee, WI with my wife Jen, our daughter Emerson, and sons Carter and Colton.
