It is Ads like this that make you wonder why people would even think of voting for a person, who has no moral compass and a serious lack of ethics, into office. What is wrong with these people?
Right Wisconsin:
Is there a constitutional right to lie? Can the state penalize
campaign ads that are clearly misleading? Mary Burke had better hope
that the answers are "yes" and "no."Sec. 12.05 of the Wisconsin statutes prohibits making false
representation about a candidate for office which is intended to affect
or tends to affect an election when the speaker either knows that the
statement is false or acts with reckless disregard for its truth or
falsity. A recent Burke ad juxtaposes a reckless and inflammatory
headline in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel stating that prosecutors in
the second John Doe investigation had alleged that Governor Walker was
at the center of a "criminal scheme" (prosecutors later said they had
alleged no such thing) and the convictions of certain individuals for
offenses uncovered during the first Doe investigation – an inquiry into
different conduct than that at issue in the second Doe (to which the
Journal Sentinel headline relates).
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