COMMENTARY: I Weigh In On The Recall Petition Story
Addressing readers' concerns, I offer up some insight into how I gathered this story and what it says about where we are as a state.
I’ve been holding off on writing a commentary about the story I broke about the person who claimed he collected recall petitions, but wasn’t going to turn them into the recall committee. A number of people who have read the stories have questioned whether or not the person is really a democratic plant, why I chose to go with the story without having seen the documents personally, and why I haven’t turned him into the authorities. These are all very good questions and I have been addressing these issues through email, but I had to sort out my own thoughts a little before answering them publicly. The short answer to the first question is: I know this person. He’s a professional acquaintance of mine that I’ve had numerous conversations with …
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Ed Willing
1:47 pm on Saturday, December 3, 2011
Volitile? Because walker passed a law he was elected to, or because our senators left the state out of protest? Wow.... Talk about bias. more ›