August
2006
Sullivan vs Reynolds Update and Debate
Milwaukee Rising blogger Gretchen Schuldt (formerly of Watchdog Milwaukee) has the smoking gun connecting State Senator Tom Reynolds with the discredited smear campaign against Jim Sullivan. Reynolds directed campaign manager JJ Blonien (who Reynolds now just calls a "campaign consultant") to spread the bogus information from a few years ago which fantacized that Sullivan voted twice in an election. Schuldt published the new story on her neighborhood website, Storyhill.net
Schuldt states:
Reynolds acknowledged that he personally directed Michael Goggins, who first made the allegations, to send relevant voting records to JJ Blonien, a Reynolds campaign consultant, who helped ensure their further spread.
If you're interested in watching the sparks fly yourself, check out the debate this Wednesday. Here's the details a reader sent us:
The congregations of MICHA/SOPHIA are co-sponsoring a public policy forum which will feature James Sullivan and Tom Reynolds, both candidates for the Fifth District seat in the State Senate. The forum will take place on Wednesday August 23 rd at the Unitarian Universalist Church West (13001 W. North Ave. in Brookfield) and will begin at 7:00pm and end at 8:30pm. Rev. Jamie Washam of the Underwood Memorial Baptist Church in Wauwatosa will serve as moderator.
On another note, you'll recall that Xoff has a Microsoft Word document which was supposedly from Wauwatosa's own anti-porn at Mayfair Mall (i.e. no panties or bras should be displayed in the windows at Victoria's Secret) crusader Stan Zurawski. It turns out that Blonien forgot that Word records the original author in the properties section of each document. BUSTED. (See Smoking gun shows Reynolds campaign is behind smear effort)
Mark Belling tried to rattle Sullivan but Sullivan called in and denounced the bogus info. Xoff has the details.
Meanwhile, Milwaukee Rising outs Reynolds mouthpiece Bob Dohnal for telling Bill Christofferson "Fuck You" in a column entitled "They will know we are Christians by our love, by our love…"
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If you look at the original date on the electronic version of the letter not only was it written by Blonien, but it was written in April not recently which the Reynold’s campaign claims. That means that this was a planned attack, not because of Donovan Riley, which is what that crowd claims. April is also when Blonien was working for Reynold’s state office, which brings the question was Blonien working on state time when he wrote the letter for the campaign. Someone should ask Reynolds at the debate.
Careful. The clock battery might be off on his computer. And, it might not even be a computer Blonien uses anymore, just one that he used to have and gave to someone else.
Still, if the gun’s not smoking, the barrel’s hot. Reynolds prints Donahl’s Wisconsin Conservative Digest, doesn’t he? How much evidence do we need to know that the rat squad surrounding the Reynolds campaign libeled Sullivan?
Is there any real different between the rat squad and the campaign? They’re one and the same.
And then there’s Blonien. Part of his salary comes out of Reynolds’ state office staff budget to work at home, which means the citizens of the state of Wisconsin are partially financing Reynolds’ illegal campaign sleaze. This ought to make fiscally conservative Republicans happy about their elected state Senator from ‘Tosa.
Has Jim Sullivan filed a legal complaint yet? The sooner the better.