Still trying to figure out why these guys would even try to itemize and reimburse heating costs for the Reynolds printing business, if in fact that is what they were trying to do. In any case, they now claim it is.

Why would any campaign call attention to itself in this way, when it is not clear when the printing building in question was being used as part of the Reynolds campaign and when it was being used to print other jobs – like wacko religious propaganda for Rev. Ovadahl? According to the complaint filed against Reynolds, his campaign finance reports do not show a pattern of heating reimbursement that would be consistent with months of high campaign activity.

All Reynolds would have had to do was bill the campaign for the heat as part of the cost of printing, like any printer would bill any client (not itemized, just part of the bottom line). Team Reynolds now says they had to tack on the heating costs to comply with the law, a ridiculous claim because it presumes that the campaign is somehow different from any other client of the Reynolds printing business. To truly be in compliance, Reynolds has to treat his campaign THE SAME as any other client.

Instead, it looks like Reynolds billed his campaign for printing, then realized he needed more cash and decided to get back some of what he paid for energy — energy he should have just paid directly out of the gross the business received for the print jobs.

I wonder how Reynolds washes all this out when he does his business taxes? — Again, if this is what he meant to do, as he says.

It would have looked a lot better for Reynolds had he just admitted he trimmed the fund for his home heating bill — his house is his campaign headquarters, after all, and that is what he actually claimed, mistakenly or not, on his campaign finance report.

The Reynolds-Donahl excuse now looks far more crooked than what was initially questioned, first by Gretchen, then Watchdog, then state Senate Dems and finally by Milwaukee Dem Treasurer Dawn Martin, who filed the complaint.

Tom Reynolds. Crooked? … or just stupid?

Afraid to debate.

Intimidates constituents.

Priceless.

The Senator behaves like a six-year-old playground bully.