February
2006
Convicted Criminal and CRG activist ON BALLOT in Brown Deer
Last year we highlighted how Bruce Thomas, a CRG activist, ran to win a seat on the Brown Deer school board. His platform consisted primarily of railing against spending in schools. Fortunately voters turned him away.
Now he’s back on the ballot but there’s a greater possibility that this convicted criminal might actually win a seat since there are multiple seats up for grabs. Last time around, Thomas missed capturing a school board seat by a mere 5%.
Thomas, formerly Bruce Slutsky, has had numerous restraining orders against him and is both unpredictable and exhibited a deep psychosis in multiple emails we have received from him.
Here’s a snippet from our original story:
The Glendale Herald, which has since been merged into the CNI newspaper The Northshore Herald, published a story explaining Thomas’ exploits. At the time of his crime, Thomas lived in Glendale. Apparently Thomas ordered uniforms with other peoples credit cards and had them delivered to his neighbors houses in the middle of the day. After the UPS truck left, Thomas would sneak over to grab the packages out of the door. Thomas pled down to a lesser charge (a misdemeanor) but continued to have restraining orders against him.
The question that should be on the forefront of voters minds is, what kind of message would it send to our children if Brown Deer sends a convicted criminal to serve on its school board?
Jim McGuigan
Jim McGuigan, Watchdogging CRG, Watchdogging Education
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The question that should be on the forefront of voters minds is, what kind of message would it send to our children if Wisconsin sends a convicted criminal to serve as its Attorney General?
Are you suggesting that harrassment of women and credit card fraud are lesser crimes than having one too many glasses of wine?
To put it another way, if you had to elect one or the other for the same position, which would you choose, a thief or someone who got behind a wheel after overindulging?
Nobody suggested that too many glasses of wine is a crime. If she drinks like a fish, I don’t care as long as she stops suing cranberry growers or decides to take on Big Alcohol. Hell, Bob Kasten and Jerry Kleczka took one too many glasses of wine to new levels…
But the AG wasn’t just overindulging… she refused a blood test, was in a taxpayer funded car, using taxpayer funded gas, going home (to a tax subsidized office in her house) when she has a taxpayer funded office in Madison (which she could’ve slept it off in), and was boosting mileage from the taxpayer.
Didn’t Burke get nabbed for taking liberties on his per diems?
I see your point. I do. But let’s not wax indignant over one and let the other skate. You run the risk of looking like a Brian Blanchard or a Jay Heck…
I’m not excusing her actions. It was stupid and it was a mistake.
She’s already endured excessive humiliation and appears to have attoned. At this point, what more can be done?
In all likelihood she would lose the seat for the dems but then there’s Kathleen Falk who appears to be mounting a decent campaign which means the dems could keep the seat.
Sadly, it seems like Peg just hasn’t yet smelled the embalming fluid at her political funeral. I’d love to be wrong because she’s done some good things, but my sense is that the voting public isn’t going to look at the big picture.
Actually it wouldn’t be bad looking like Jay Heck. Better than looking like Slutsky (unfortunate name by the way).
And why is Slutsky being defended? These CRG are like Pavlovian dogs. The hear the bell of tax cuts and they start to salivate.