Municipal Dropbox in Wausau. MWC photo by Mike Leischner
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – One part of the ethics complaint against Wausau Mayor Doug Diny that hasn’t happened yet is for the Ethics Board to hear from the citizens who actually filed the complaint. That should be revealing, especially if the Mayor’s lawyer gets to cross-examine them.
There are questions we don’t have answers to yet. Like:
Did you decide on your own to file the ethics complaint, or were you recruited?
Did you write the actual complaint yourself, or was it written by a political action group – specifically, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign?
How did the Mayor’s actions impact you personally? Were you kept from casting a ballot?
Your complaint says “and the mayor might do it again.” What is your basis for that statement? How do you know?
If the ethics board is to find against the mayor, what would you like the punishment to be? Would you want him removed from office?
There are four complainants listed: Gerard C. Phelan, Kurt Hase, Jay Coldwell and Scott L. Bryan. Assuming they answer honestly, we will learn the following: that they were recruited by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, a liberal political action group, which hired a lawyer to write the complaint. None of them were impacted, in any way, by Mayor Diny’s actions. Remember, the drop box was locked and early voting had not yet begun. And, their wildest wish, is that the mayor is removed.
So what is the foundation that this ethics complaint is based on? It’s from a group of Karens who are filled to the brim with faux outrage. This is not the stuff that a duly elected official gets kicked out of office over.
Remember what this is about: can a small kabal (four complainers and four ethics board members) nullify the ballots that hundreds of Wausonians cast while choosing their mayor? Or have we become Wausaukistan?
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