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TexasTowelie

(112,252 posts) Mon Sep 18, 2017, 04:59 AM Sep 2017

Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel spent $83,000 on promotional swag

Attorney General has spent about $83,000 on promotional items since January 2015, including messenger bags, pistol cases, candy, custom-made fortune cookies, and coins bearing his and his campaign mantra — “kicking ass every day.”

Most of it was handed out as gifts to attendees at Department of Justice conferences.

The Associated Press obtained invoices for Schimel’s promotional items through an open records request.

“Brad Schimel puts the ‘AG’ in ‘swag.’” said One Wisconsin Now research director Joanna Beilman-Dulin. “Stress balls, coffee mugs, commemorative coins, candy, souvenir flashlights and fortune cookies don’t solve crimes. Yet our state’s top cop Brad Schimel is spending tens of thousands of dollars every year on this and other swag.

“Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, literally thousands of rape kits have gone untested and delays in DNA testing are growing longer on his watch.

Read more: http://www.wisconsingazette.com/news/wisconsin/wisconsin-attorney-general-brad-schimel-spent-on-promotional-swag/article_d3841624-94e0-11e7-a081-174591da1994.html

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Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel spent $83,000 on promotional swag (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2017 OP

Wisconsin elected in 2015 a prosecutor delisen Sep 2017 #1

Plus, he is Scarsdale Sep 2017 #2

Everybody get behind Josh Kaul, who is running against him dragonlady Sep 2017 #3

delisen

(6,044 posts)

1. Wisconsin elected in 2015 a prosecutor

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon Sep 18, 2017, 06:06 AM

Sep 2017

whose campaign slogan was "kicking ass every day."

At least he let the voters know upfront that authoritarianism not justice was his priority.

I am imaging the little children of Wisconsin standing up in their school rooms every day reciting a pledge of "kicking ass every day."

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)

2. Plus, he is

Reply to delisen (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 18, 2017, 06:35 AM

Sep 2017

a favorite with the Christian right!! The "ass he is kicking every day" appears to be on the regular working people of the state.

dragonlady

(3,577 posts)

3. Everybody get behind Josh Kaul, who is running against him

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon Sep 18, 2017, 02:58 PM

Sep 2017

Josh gained serious experience from his time as a federal prosecutor in Baltimore and now he has come home to Wisconsin to raise his family. He was part of the legal team that got some of Wisconsin's Republican voter suppression laws overturned. I heard him speak at a progressive function recently and was very impressed.

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