Kelly Rindfleisch, former top aide to current Wisconsin Apocalypse Bringer Scott Walker, has pretty much worn out the appeals process on her conviction for Misconduct in Office (campaign work done in a Milwaukee County office on taxpayer time). Now, Fox (not) News is calling her a
"political prisoner".
By this time next week, Kelly Rindfliesch could become the first political prisoner in what many see as a Democrat-led secret war on conservatives.
But while prosecutors driving the state's politically charged John Doe investigation push for Rindfleisch to begin serving a six-month jail sentence immediately, her attorney says he plans to ask a federal court to intervene.
Rindfleisch and political activist Eric O'Keefe, who is pushing back against the prosecutors as a target in the so-called John Doe II, spoke with Wisconsin Reporter in an exclusive after the state Supreme Court declined to take up Rindfleisch's appeal.
(bolding is mine)
I call bullshit.
Kelly Reindfleisch and the rest of Scott Walkers County Executive staff stole from Milwaukee County taxpayers by doing campaign work in taxpayer funded offices while on the taxpayers dime. They worked with personal laptops on a secret router so none of their activities could be archived (legally required) and so they could keep their campaign operations secret.
As a Milwaukee County taxpayer, they stole from me.
Presenting them as victims of a witch hunt or liberal plot to discredit Scott Walker is propagandizing a lie. Walkers aides broke the law, stole from a veterans fund, and used official County offices literally as their campaign headquarters rather than doing the business that they were being paid to do.
Time for Kelly Rindfleisch to do her 6 months in prison plea bargain time. She should have known better, anyway, since she only escaped charges in the 1990s (for doing the exact same thing) by cooperating with prosecutors in the infamous Caucus Scandal that led to the demise of the careers of so many politicians who thought they would get away with it.
When you're in a public service job, do the job. Not campaign work. You're lucky the judge accepted that cozy plea bargain deal in the first place and then allowed you to stay out of prison while your case was being appealed. You've tried every way you can to avoid it - even claiming (laughably) that your 1990s immunity deal in the Caucus Scandal applied to your decades in the future criminal acts. Time to stop whining and go to jail.
I'm so mad I could spit fire.