May 31, 2006

Candidates Pounce on Inactive Lautenschlager

Attorney General candidate JB Van Hollen jumps on Peg Lautenschlager for being silent after Milwaukee's violent Memorial Day Weekend:

She's AWOL on fighting violent gun crime in Wisconsin's largest city.

Apparently, Peg Lautenschlager is too busy suing law abiding farmers in northern Wisconsin and fighting the EPA, Department of Education and FDA to actually focus on fighting crime in the highest crime area of the state.

We need more than a long-term action plan, though; we need to do something now.

Fellow GOP candidate Paul Bucher went after both Lautenschlager, Gov. Doyle, and dawdling local officials:

Doyle has been too busy to focus on the 28 shootings in Milwaukee over the past few days, I suppose, since he's been wasting time vetoing reasonable pieces of legislation (including one requiring verification of citizenship to get state benefits) and he's been too busy dodging questions about why the man he named Parole commissioner released two cop killers.

As for Lautenschlager? She's been too busy filing her frivolous lawsuits against legislators, cranberry growers, the FDA, you name it.

And on the local level, officials are convening task forces to "study" the issues rather than going after the criminal element in a serious and aggressive manner like they are down in Chicago right now. In Milwaukee, the locals are shooting down common sense gang loitering ordinances that would give police the tools they need to preserve the quality of life for the law-abiding citizen.

"Lautenschlager Needs to Fight Real Crime"

"Lautenschlager and Doyle AWOL on Gun Violence"