GOP: Party of Corruption Trying to Taint Others

This is today's sleaze release by the Republican Party of Wisconsin.

I was there today during the "dog and pony" hearing the GOP majority held during the Joint Committee on Finance meeting today.

FIVE times Sen. Scott Fitzgerald tried to get former Department of Administration Secretary Marc Marotta to say he talked to Adelman Travel during the contracting process. Each time Marotta was clear. "Without exception" he followed the law he said.

Even Tommy Thompson's former Department of Administration Secretary Mark Bugher appeared and said the procurement process is no different than under Tommy's administration. The only significant difference according to Bugher? Doyle saved taxpayers an additional $100 million.

The hearing was painful. To watch the GOP try to distract, distort and divide the public by misdirecting their own ethical problems of Scott Jensen, Mickey Foti and others as well as their killing the Ethics Reform Bill this session was unfair to a dedicated public servant like Marotta.

I was waiting for the question, "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party." It was the only thing missing today.

The GOP release? Well, if you have a bird, you can make the only good use of it.