Normal, decent people, wouldn’t do this, but the folks from the inappropriately named Citizens for Responsible Government (CRG) have put the names of people with issues of mental competency, paternity and guardianship on their website.

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel published a sugar-coated story on their website. The story reads:

Milwaukee County officials mistakenly released numerous confidential court records for a citizens group’s Web site that detail payments for tests and other costs linked to mental competency, paternity and guardianship cases, officials acknowledged.

The records obtained by Citizens for Responsible Government Network were part of a county database of 188,000 purchasing invoices for 2006 and 2007. The group put the information on its Web site Tuesday morning.

Those test have names associated with them and many if not most of those names are from people who committed no crime. They are the mentally infirm, children whose paternity is in question and other children who are in need of guardians or guardians who are trying to do the right thing.

Zeal.

That’s the only thing that can explain CRG’s desire to get all of the information they could get their overly partisan hands on out into the public arena. But this time it wasn’t just democrats their actions were meant to hurt. When you go out into a crowd swinging a pick axe you should expect someone to get hurt and this time it was the mentally challenged, vulnerable children and those that are trying to care for those children.

This is an issue that speaks to ethics.

What kind of group would do this? Who is behind such a decision? who would be a part of such a group? We know some of the names.

It’s time to name them.

Chris Kleismet, the longtime spokesperson and mastermind behind the internet strategy of CRG. After helping get Scott Walker elected as Milwaukee County Executive, Kleismet attempted to get the favor returned in an attempt to get the county to buy into a program he’s a part of. There’s nothing like the hopes of a big fat county contract to motivate a person to help out their pal.

Orville Seymer, part of CRG from the onset and . Proud to boast he is a landlord and former head of the Apartment Association, Seymer has multiple cases against him on the State’s Circuit court web page including a judgment for money from the DePaul Rehabilitation Hospital which he finally paid. His recent claim to fame was a frivolous lawsuit threat where he was going to soak taxpayers for a million dollars because he wasn’t allowed to speak at a meeting at the county board. Apparently to Seymer, if the county doesn’t give him a microphone to spread his hate, taxpayers should be forced to pay.

Don Uebelacker, one of the founders of CRG who was rewarded by Walker with a nomination to the County Ethics Committee. The County Board shot down the nomination after it was learned that Uebelacker intentionally lied to the board about his continuing political activities. Uebelacker continues to reign as Vice-President for the Brown Deer Senior Citizens Club — a group dominated by Republican activists.

Joe Klucarich, one of the founders of CRG and current President of the Brown Deer Senior Citizens Club allows Republicans to speak to the group when they want to make attacks and accusations but when Democrats come to speak he has been known to deny them the use of the microphone so they can defend themselves.

These are the types of people that are running that organization.

Interestingly enough, CRG also attacks those that are critical of them. They have threatened a lawsuit when we published a screen capture of their website connecting CRG to the Republican party. They claimed in their threatening letter from the law firm of Foley and Lardner, that the image we posted was doctored. Clearly the person who spoke to the Foley attorney lied and Foley did not do their homework. Our response was to republish the image and point out that we were being threatened with the lawsuit. We weren’t about to bow to thuggery.

So what’s the lesson here? If you’re mentally infirm, if you’re a child whose paternity is in question, if you’re a child who is in need of a guardian, if you are a guardian who is trying to do the right thing, or if you expose CRG for being the types of people they are, don’t be shocked if CRG comes after you.