Ad against Saban elicits strong response

When Saban was in the process of applying to be Buckeye’s Police Chief, he told then-Town Manager Carroll Reynolds that he was suing the county for defamation because of a story that spread in the campaign that claimed Saban had raped his adoptive mother, Ruby Norman, in the early 1970s. Saban told Reynolds that he did not have intercourse with Norman. In a subsequent deposition related to Saban’s defamation lawsuit, Saban said he was the victim of physical and sexual abuse as a child and teenager at the hands of Norman, and that she forced herself on him. Norman contended it was Saban who raped her.

These are slimy folks and PLEASE help Dan Saban too…… Sheriff Joe has been harassing local donors by using the FEC filings and targeting donors…..

Gableman is the second neocon justice, they’ve gotten on the state supreme court in the last two years. The first one got a reprimand, but we’re stuck with her. The big daily in WI is going after Gableman with a lot more vigor. Maybe we can get him kicked off the court?

GOP ran the same stunt in Wisconsin to try and stack the state Supreme Court. You’d think these neocons were all working the same Rove play book, lmao:

Judicial Commission says Gableman ad was deceiving

[…] Gableman’s campaign ad suggested his opponent, then-Justice Louis Butler, got a child molester out of prison, allowing him to commit another sex offense. Butler won an appeal in the case as a public defender, but the offender remained in prison and did not commit the subsequent crime until he served his sentence.

“By publishing the advertisement in willful violation of (the state’s judicial ethics code), Judge Gableman engaged in judicial misconduct,” the commission wrote in its complaint.[…]

More background.

Gableman’s calls from DA office under investigation
Justice says calls to fund-raisers were not political

[…] In all, 60 calls went from Gableman’s office to Republican campaign offices, McCallum fund-raising staff and McCallum donors in the weeks before Gableman hosted a June 2002 dinner for McCallum, records show. Most of the calls were brief, but some lasted 15 minutes or more.

McCallum appointed Gableman to be Burnett County circuit judge two months after the event.

In May, Gableman told the Journal Sentinel he couldn’t recall the nature of the calls but thought he might have been trying to get details about a visit McCallum was making to the area. He insisted the calls were not political and said he tried to reimburse for personal calls. […]

Gableman and he’s the second neocon justice, they’ve gotten on the court in the last two years. The first one we’re stuck with. The big daily in WI is going after Gableman with a lot more vigor. Maybe we can get rid him off the court?

Once they identified speakers, they typed the person’s name or organization into the system, so that when a conversation involving that number was intercepted again, the name appeared on their computer screen. Although the system allowed them to block phone numbers identified as belonging to a nongovernmental organization or journalist, they never did so. Instead, she said, they added the numbers of humanitarian aid organizations and journalists to a priority list.

“They were ‘priority five,’ from what I remember,” she said. “‘Priority one’ was terrorist organizations. ‘Priority five’ is middle of the road. ‘Priority nine’ was just unidentified numbers. Not only were we given the ability to listen to [NGOs and journalists], but it was programmed into our system to listen to them.”

Not surprising, I guess. But here’s at least an eye witness account. Wonder if AG Ashcroft signed off on this order, pre-pancreatitis (which was in 2004)