The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has found that an advertisement being run by the Green campaign smearing Gov Doyle is heavy on the rhetoric, light on the facts. Among the findings:
The face of repeat sexual offender Billy Lee Morford is used in a new campaign ad from Mark Green, the Republican candidate for governor, to fault Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle's record on crime.Other dubious claims in the ads were also debunked by the paper:
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The ad says that "under Jim Doyle, Wisconsin leads the nation in release of sexual predators," citing a 2003 article in the Journal Sentinel as proof.
The data in the article came from a survey taken in 2002 on sexual predator releases up until then. Doyle didn't take office until January 2003.
The article noted that Wisconsin's relatively high rate of release up to that point was because its 1995 predator law has been in force longer than those in all but one other state.
- Green claimed Doyle "fought against a bill to keep sexual predators locked up." However, "Doyle, then attorney general, objected to an early version of predator legislation that would have given prosecutors the option of having a sex offender committed to a mental institution instead of charged criminally. He has strongly endorsed the version that was passed later in 1994, as well as a revision last year that sets a higher standard for community release of predators."
- Green claimed Doyle's administration "failed to notify police when a notorious child molester was roaming free near schools and parks." The paper said "that refers to Morford's regular visits from his N. 51st St. house to a friend's home in Franklin. State notification of local officials is not required of supervised travels of a predator placed in a community, but Morford's visiting privilege was pulled after Franklin officials complained."
- Lastly, green claimed Doyle's Parole Board "set free" two cop killers. The paper said "former Parole Board Chairman Lenard Wells, a Doyle appointee, approved the parole of two men convicted in the 1975 murder of Milwaukee police officer Dennis Lee Obradovich, one last December and one in April. Doyle has said by law the governor has no say in whether someone is paroled and that he supported the 1998 "truth in sentencing" law that eliminated parole for crimes committed after that."
2 Comments:
It's a shame that you haven't done your own research. If you had you'd know that Doyle continues to make statements in opposition to Chapter 980, not only verbally but in action. Witness his lack of support for a legislative mandated panel to find a place in Milwaukee County to house predators.
Morford's visits to Franklin are subject of a legal action that has discovered a great number of actions by his departments that are either gross negligence, incompetence or both. Read the documents posted on the City of Franklin website. Morford's visits did violate the law and the DOC in effect, admitted it. Why, if the visits were "legal" did DHFS pull them so quickly?
So, are you saying that the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel doesn't know what the hell it's talking about?
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