Wednesday, September 10, 2014

John Chisholm, Colleen Chisholm, and Scott Walker

For years, have I thought that John Chisholm's relentless investigation of Scott Walker was personal?

Yeah.

Did the "John Doe" investigation and its various tentacles appear totally out of line and unprofessional?

Yeah.

Have I believed that John Chisholm abused his power and harassed citizens, with the purpose of targeting them to advance a Democrat political agenda?

Yeah.


From the Washington Examiner:

Now a longtime Chisholm subordinate reveals for the first time in this article that the district attorney may have had personal motivations for his investigation. Chisholm told him and others that Chisholm’s wife, Colleen, a teacher’s union shop steward at St. Francis high school, a public school near Milwaukee, had been repeatedly moved to tears by Walker’s anti-union policies in 2011, according to the former staff prosecutor in Chisholm’s office. Chisholm said in the presence of the former prosecutor that his wife “frequently cried when discussing the topic of the union disbanding and the effect it would have on the people involved … She took it personally.”

...Chisholm added, according to that prosecutor, that “he felt that it was his personal duty to stop Walker from treating people like this.”

Chisholm was referring to Gov. Walker’s proposal – passed by the legislature in March 2011 – to require public employee unions to contribute to their retirement and health-care plans for the first time and to limit unions’ ability to bargain for non-wage benefits.

Chisholm said his wife had joined teachers union demonstrations against Walker, said the former prosecutor.

...Chisholm’s private displays of partisan animus stunned the former prosecutor. “I admired him [Chisholm] greatly up until this whole thing started,” the former prosecutor said. “But once this whole matter came up, it was surprising how almost hyper-partisan he became … It was amazing … to see this complete change.”

The culture in the Milwaukee district attorney’s office was stoutly Democratic, the former prosecutor said, and become more so during Gov. Walker’s battle with the unions. Chisholm “had almost like an anti-Walker cabal of people in his office who were just fanatical about union activities and unionizing. And a lot of them went up and protested. They hung those blue fists on their office walls [to show solidarity with union protestors] … At the same time, if you had some opposing viewpoints that you wished to express, it was absolutely not allowed.”
Well.

John Chisholm.

Surprised?

No integrity.

Zero.



4 comments:

jimspice said...

I thought Walker himself started the investigation, remember?

Phoenix7 said...

I saw this on the Daily Mail this morning.

An international website.

And yet, the Journal-Sentinel still hasn't reported on the story.

I only wish I could protest more and cancel the subscription I never paid for to begin with, instead of wiping out my cookies so their 20 article a month limit never applies to me.

Mary said...

"I thought Walker himself started the investigation, remember?"

That's ridiculous.

None of what Chisholm has been pursuing relates to money stolen from vets.

Walker never asked Chisholm to use his office and power to abuse citizens.

Mary said...

"And yet, the Journal-Sentinel still hasn't reported on the story."

I did a search and found this link from the JS:

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/purple-wisconsin/274571101.html

Not exactly proper coverage, but it's there - grudgingly, of course.