Answer: A married public official having a love child has everything to do with being Sheriff of Milwaukee County.

Proper public and private conduct are requirements of public office. First, when David Clark placed his hand on the Bible and took oath of office, he made implicit promises to the public based upon Judeo-Christian values and explicit oaths to the public that he would serve. Hence the saying, to whom much is given, much is required.

When we select our public servants, we seek qualities that are exemplar - honesty, devotion, and integrity. Most of us would never seek out degenerate behavior in people whom we place our trust.

Whether we’re in a position of power or not, we are accountable and must answer for our actions. Think about it? Would you elect a crack addict, philanderer or a prostitute to public office? So in short, what we all do matters.

It’s interesting that you wrote in and (from the rights perspective) even admitted the Sykes-Riordan and McBride-Bucher trysts. Usually people from the right are in denial and judging from the personalized rant which you followed up with (no, we’re not going to publish flame wars based on fiction) you’re part of the group that believes any problems, no matter how long, are the fault of democrats. This is the same delusion that allows people like you to claim Clinton (who left office 6 years ago) is responsible for the nuclear test in North Korea or to claim that it was Ament who left office 4 years ago is responsible for the countys current fiscal crisis currently masterminded by Scott Walker.

Jody - you’re right on from Eau Claire. It would have been interesting to see how the discussion evolved had Bucher won last month. “Defending marriage,” eh Paul? Let’s hope neither Falk or Van Hollen will ever be faced with defending that piece of unconstitutional law.

And I hope Jessica’s not drumming up support for the amendment on air or in her blog. Charlie Sykes, for one, has been very critical of the amendment (he says it’s bad strategy for Republicans and worries whether it’ll backfire by galvanizing a big voter turnout to “No”), though I’m not sure whether he has officially taken a position on it. Last I heard he said he was undecided, which I took to mean that he was personally opposed to it but wasn’t exactly going to give his radio show over to people fighting to stop “Defense of Marriage.”

Back at the Shepherd Express in 1998, then-Editor Joel McNally was hot for the McBride-Bucher affair, which we had all heard about. He wanted reporter Scott Sloan to track the story down for a gossip item but Scott and I both thought it was an invasion of her privacy, not a nice thing to do to a fellow reporter. Scott did a nice job dragging his feet on it and it was never printed. A good thing, too, because right around that time she and I had a few discussions [disagreements] about our reporting on Deputy Police Chief Monica Ray. Had we done anything about Jessica and Bucher, it would have looked a bit malicious. I’ve always thought we did the right thing by respecting Jessica’s privacy and being professionally courteous.

The reason why Jackson-McGee-Junior got attention is because a) it was in a court of law under oath and b) it was proven by DNA to in fact be his child because the baby momma took him to court!

The rumors about Thompson, Clarke, etc are just that… RUMORS. Show me some DNA proof and I’ll retract my statement.

It’s amazing that this is what left-wing moonbats spend their time thinking about…maybe if they actually thought of ideas to form a PLAN instead of being the party who is simply against everything they would actually make progress this November!

It’s all hush-hush with the republican side though. It seems more than a little odd that those who work so hard to preach morality are those whose morals are more slippery than others.

Bill,
I’m pretty sure these are all true. I think Sheriff Clarke needs to answer the question as to whether or not he does have a love child and whether that love child is with Contessa Brewer or someone else.

And if you’re going to go down this road, why not take a look at the other side of the aisle instead of just focusing on conservatives? Front and center would be Michael Jackson-McGee Junior.

There are far more issues that are crippling Milwaukee that should be talked about but instead you want to talk about the love life of a few local conservatives.

Maybe that info seems irrelevant but I think not. Wow. I did NOT know that about Jessica McBride, not way up here in Eau Claire.
My “love” post refers to the ban, about politicians attempts to define, limit and deny love in the lives of others. You bet your butt this kind of information is relevant. When conservative hypocrits indulge in self-serving selective morality that hurts other people, nothing could be more relevant. So homosexuality is really bad, but adultery and child abandonment is just great.
If gay and lesbian couples are supposed to resist their “urges” then Paul and Jessica should have too. They want to be leaders? then lead on, “Mr. and Mrs.” Bucher.