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PolitiFact gets another half-assed rating

August 15, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

There's just no pleasing some people. The Journal Sentinel's PolitiFact is a case in point.

The Greater Wisconsin Committee sent a piece of direct mail about Jonathan Steitz, the Chicago corporate attorney running against State Sen. Bob Wirch (D-Kenosha) in a recall election Tuesday.

The mail says:

He doesn’t want you to know that he failed to pay his state taxes until a tax warrant forced him to pay up.

There's a footnote, with a citation for a Kenosha County court case so people can check it out.

PolitiFact checked it outand found:

The [court case] summary shows the state filed a tax warrant against Steitz in November 2003 for $1,875 plus $853 for interest and a penalty, for a total of more than $2,700. The summary also shows the warrant was paid off two months later...

Steitz's campaign doesn't dispute that, although it tried to offer some excuses:

PolitiFact gets another half-assed rating

August 15, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

There's just no pleasing some people. The Journal Sentinel's PolitiFact is a case in point.

The Greater Wisconsin Committee sent a piece of direct mail about Jonathan Steitz, the Chicago corporate attorney running against State Sen. Bob Wirch (D-Kenosha) in a recall election Tuesday.

The mail says:

He doesn’t want you to know that he failed to pay his state taxes until a tax warrant forced him to pay up.

There's a footnote, with a citation for a Kenosha County court case so people can check it out.

PolitiFact checked it outand found:

The [court case] summary shows the state filed a tax warrant against Steitz in November 2003 for $1,875 plus $853 for interest and a penalty, for a total of more than $2,700. The summary also shows the warrant was paid off two months later...

Steitz's campaign doesn't dispute that, although it tried to offer some excuses:

All I know is what I read in the papers

August 14, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

I don't remember ever hearing about Richard Uihlein or his firm, Uline, before this weekend.

But when it was reported that he was the source that triggered a "pants on fire" rating from PolitiFact for State Sen.. Bob Wirch, who claimed to have helped Uline move some jobs to Kenosha, the name sounded familiar.

That's because Uihlein also was mentioned in another weekend story in the same newspaper about how much Supreme Court David (The Strangler) Prosser raised for his recent recount -- listing Uihlein as a $50,000 donor to Prosser.

What's the point? He's not exactly a neutral source. You have to wonder who asked him to issue the unsolicited statement about Wirch -- who's facing a recall election Tuesday -- that set off PolitiFact.

All I know is what I read in the papers

August 14, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

I don't remember ever hearing about Richard Uihlein or his firm, Uline, before this weekend.

But when it was reported that he was the source that triggered a "pants on fire" rating from PolitiFact for State Sen.. Bob Wirch, who claimed to have helped Uline move some jobs to Kenosha, the name sounded familiar.

That's because Uihlein also was mentioned in another weekend story in the same newspaper about how much Supreme Court David (The Strangler) Prosser raised for his recent recount -- listing Uihlein as a $50,000 donor to Prosser.

What's the point? He's not exactly a neutral source. You have to wonder who asked him to issue the unsolicited statement about Wirch -- who's facing a recall election Tuesday -- that set off PolitiFact.

Now it's gotten too negative; GOP candidate attacks fish fries

August 14, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

Jonathan Steitz has really crossed the line this time -- and we don't mean the state line.

The "Chicago lawyer" running against State Sen. Bob Wirch in Tuesday's recall has made light of Wirch attending fish fries to meet constituents.

The Dem Party lost no time <.a> in blasting Steitz, a corporate attorney.

Is Kenosha ready to elect a guy who's never been to the Brat Stop? Not llikely.,

And where will it end? Will Steitz attack cheese curds next?

(No, we can't explain the green stuff in the photo. Some kind of foreign object. Maybe this isn't a Wisconsin fish fry,)