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hue

(4,949 posts)
Wed Apr 9, 2014, 10:05 PM Apr 2014

Sen. Mike Ellis (R-WI) Caught on Tape Plotting Potential Felony

Published on Apr 9, 2014

Breaking: Wisconsin State Senate President Mike Ellis (R-19) was caught on tape potentially coordinating how to disguise attack ads against Assemblywoman Penny B. Schaber by arranging his own allegedly independent Political Action Committee (Independent Expenditure), which could be a felony according to Wisconsin State election law.

Ellis was also caught on hidden camera intimating that fellow Republican Gov. Scott Walker is working only for himself, and agreeing that the John Doe Probe was "Blessing in...Disguise".

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Sen. Mike Ellis (R-WI) Caught on Tape Plotting Potential Felony (Original Post) hue Apr 2014 OP
James O'Keefe is a knucklehead. I hate Ellis and informed his office last year that I will Ed Suspicious Apr 2014 #1
Mike Ellis is Insane Pharaoh Apr 2014 #2
All false political ads should be felonies. JEFF9K Apr 2014 #3
Ellis Lefta Dissenter Apr 2014 #4
Even tho this was produced by Veritas it shows what a scum Ellis is. hue Apr 2014 #5
it is fun to see rw thugs go after rw thugs dembotoz Apr 2014 #6
Blogging Blue's take on this: hue Apr 2014 #7

Ed Suspicious

(8,879 posts)
1. James O'Keefe is a knucklehead. I hate Ellis and informed his office last year that I will
Wed Apr 9, 2014, 10:22 PM
Apr 2014

be putting forth a strong effort to see him unseated (He never called me back.). But I wish this didn't come from the pimp-dressed acorn guy.

 

Pharaoh

(8,209 posts)
2. Mike Ellis is Insane
Wed Apr 9, 2014, 10:27 PM
Apr 2014

Veritas is sick. Wondering why O'Keefe is throwing his own under the bus. Is he trying to sidle up to Walker?

Lefta Dissenter

(6,622 posts)
4. Ellis
Wed Apr 9, 2014, 11:33 PM
Apr 2014

He just can't keep his mouth shut! And it's not the first time he's been recorded at the Inn on the Park. That's where we first learned about the legislators "having pie" with the lobbyists upstairs!

He should have resigned three years ago - back when he told me that he just wanted to just go home and play with the horses. Of course, he was pretty drunk that night, too.

hue

(4,949 posts)
7. Blogging Blue's take on this:
Thu Apr 10, 2014, 11:02 AM
Apr 2014
http://bloggingblue.com/2014/04/mike-ellis-caught-on-tape-conspiring-to-commit-election-law-felony-video/

"Sen. Ellis’ comment that Judi Engel Rhodes would have no problem helping him illegally coordinate (both financially and strategically) between his PAC and his reelection campaign to attack Penny Bernard Schaber stood out to me as something he said from personal knowledge. "
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