Here's a tip for the tea party Republican attempting to win a general election: don't let Democrats find out you employed Chinese labor to publish your books about American heroism.
Such is the fate of Kim Simac, a tea party leader founder and Republican party choice to win the Wisconsin state Senate recall election against incumbent Democratic Sen. Jim Holperin. Simac was last seen scrubbing the web of her past writings
comparing the public schools to Nazi Germany.
Now she's stuck having to explain away why her uber-patriotic children's books are published in China.
Last week, the
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel told the story:
(Simac) wrote a children's book called "American Soldier Proud and Free" in 2007. She refers to the 32-page book - in which a kid details his love of God and country in an extended poem - occasionally on the campaign trail...the self-published book indicates it was "printed in China." The same is true of her second book, "Girls Play Hockey Too!"Simac's campaign told the Journal-Sentinel that the publisher she used,
RR Donnelley made the decision to publish the books in China, and she had no choice in the matter.
Cue the Democratic backlash....
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