The Greater Wisconsin Committee strikes again, this time with a sleazy ad attacking Justice David Prosser. The ad shamelessly exploits victims of a pedophile priest.
True to Greater Wisconsin Committee form, the ad unfairly smears Justice Prosser and distorts the facts.
From the Greater Wisconsin Committee's site, Prosser Equals Scott Walker:
Prosser refused to prosecute a Wisconsin priest even though he had evidence that the priest had sexually assaulted three boys.
As a local DA, Prosser didn't interview the priest or have the police investigate. Instead, Prosser met with the local bishop and they agreed to send the priest to another parish to prevent the church embarrassment.
Prosser even told the victims' mother that he didn't want to prosecute the case because the priest's brother was a "celebrity" because he appeared on the Lawrence Welk TV show.
The priest abused more victims for years, but was eventually convicted in the original case that Prosser refused to prosecute.
Watch the ad:
So Wisconsin voters are being bombarded with this slime from the Greater Wisconsin Committee.
This political action committee first formed in mid-2004 uses negative radio, television and newspaper advertising and mailings to support Democratic candidates and oppose Republican candidates. The group gets its cash primarily from labor and business interests. One prominent donor in 2010 was Governor Jim Doyle whose campaign committee gave Greater Wisconsin $1 million in August.
In addition to its political action committee, Greater Wisconsin also has an unregulated issue ad group of the same name and an unregulated, secretive 527 group called the Greater Wisconsin Political Fund. Greater Wisconsin's three entities have spent more than $8 million on the past three Wisconsin Supreme Court races, legislative races in 2006 and 2008 and the 2006 races for governor and attorney general.
The Greater Wisconsin Committee PAC spent $1,727,066.06 against Scott Walker in the Fall 2010 election.
Clearly, it's a major sleazy player in Wisconsin campaigns.
Its sleazy ad about David Prosser and the pedophile priest has come under fire from the priest's victims cited in the ad.
Troy J. Merryfield, one of the victims, has issued a statement calling for the Greater Wisconsin Committee to stop running the ad. He also takes issue with Internet postings exploiting the abuse he suffered as a child.
Read the STATEMENT OF TROY J. MERRYFIELD IN RESPONSE TO POLITICAL ADS.
Statement excerpt:
As a victim, I find the ad by the Greater Wisconsin Committee to be offensive, inaccurate and out of context. I hope that organization will remove the ad. I hope Ms. [JoAnne] Kloppenburg will encourage that organization to pull the ad. I hope all websites, blogs and other purveyors of political information would stop portraying this case inaccurately and out of context.
If I was a resident of the State of Wisconsin, I would vote for David Prosser in the upcoming election.
The Greater Wisconsin Committee has no intention of pulling the ad. I doubt pro-Kloppenburg proponents will cease exploiting Merryfield via their internet postings. I doubt that Kloppenburg herself will encourage anyone to quit abusing the victims of the pedophile priest via their dissemination of distortions and inaccuracies.
Obviously, these Leftists are showing no sensitivity whatsoever for these victims of abuse. Through their actions and exploitation of Merryfield and his brother, they are serving as abusers.
Kloppenburg's failure to condemn the ad says a lot about her character and the sleazy tactics she's willing to employ to win an election.
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