Wisconsin Democrats' attempt to criminalize political diferences with Walker not working

Wisconsin Reporter:

If Democrats see the seemingly endless John Doe investigations as a big gun in their political arsenal against Gov. Scott Walker, the latest poll numbers suggest this not-so-secret weapon isn’t hitting the mark.

Mike Tate and crew at the Democratic Party of Wisconsin haven’t merely been rooting for bombshell revelations against Walker in the secret probes, they’ve been using the investigations as one of their major narratives this election year.

“You can assume they’re finding serious acts of wrongdoing,” Tate, the chippy chairman of the state Dems, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Dan Bice in November, following news the Democrat-led Milwaukee County District Attorney’s office had launched another John Doe into conservatives.

“Every released document has only served to reinforce that Walker has been aware of this criminal activity since at least May of 2010,” Tate told reporters at a Democratic Party news conference last month.

The presser was held on the same day a Milwaukee County judge released thousands of emails of a former aide to Walker when Walker was Milwaukee County executive. Kelly Rindfleisch in 2012 was convicted on a felony charge for campaigning for a GOP lieutenant governor candidate on government time — part of the Milwaukee County DA’s first politically charged John Doe probe spanning nearly three years.

And while investigators found no wrongdoing by Walker, nor have any charges been brought against the Republican governor in the latest court-administered dragnet, that fact is inconsequential to the Democratic Party narrative.

“We`re going to see where this investigation goes. We’ll see what unfolds,” Tate told Fox 6 News in Milwaukee following the release of the Rindfleisch emails. As the TV station noted, “Tate believes the court of public opinion won’t be so kind” to Walker.”

But the court of public opinion, it seems, has been little moved by the politically charged investigations and the storyline liberal partisans have created.

The latest Marquette Law School poll, released Wednesday, shows Walker’s lead on presumptive Democratic gubernatorial nominee Mary Burke in the run-up to Wisconsin gubernatorial race in November has crept up a percentage point, to 48 percent to 41 percent. Walker led Burke, a wealthy Madison liberal and Commerce Secretary under former Democrat Gov. Jim Doyle, 47 percent to 41 percent in the law school’s last poll in January.
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 The prosecution of Rinfleisch has the appearance of an attempt to extort information that would be harmful to the governor, but she apparently had no such information.  While they have driven Rinfleisch to financial ruin with attorney's fees they wound up with a felony conviction for a five minute conversation in her office about someone other than the governor.  You should read this story about the proscutorial abuse she was subjected to.  It sounds like something Travis County liberals would try.  It does not sound like America.