6 years ago and they still haven't found the right legal authority to complain to? No wonder they didn't get their candidate elected.

I agree that a public official campaigning on work time is a big no-no... I just think that the vast majority of these kind of complaints amount to trivial discrepencies of reporting "work time". Technically I suppose he should "clock out" for 5 minutes while he makes a campaign call, but that kind of minute-by-minute time-keeping, while perhaps appropriate for hourly jobs, just doesn't make sense for salary jobs. As I said, most salary employees have a little flexibility with "work time", so taking a few minutes to make personal (or even campaign) calls is approved of due to the extra hours and lunchs/meetings you end up doing "off the clock". To put it another way, although I haven't checked out the group yet, I have a strong suspision that they are agaisnt Gableman's policies and want to discredit him, not that they actually care that potential tax dollars have been wasted.

And for the record, I'm also a state employee (not elected), was 10 minutes late this morning, made a 5 minute personal call today and worked through about 45 minutes of my hour lunch.

Always a good caveat, lakennedy, but the link goes not to a page of analysis but to the phone records themselves. Voters should see for themselves what went on.

Also, this was known before the election. Sadly, Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce was running ads for Gableman and Sidney Bliss sits on WMC's governing board representing Bliss Communications.

It wouldn't have made much sense to run this item showing Gableman's misdeeds in the paper while sanctioning ads to get him elected.

ktaustin, I understand what you're saying, but as state employees (I am one), we are being paid by public funds (taxes, fees, etc.). It's much different in the private sector. It's one thing for Gableman to be setting up Dr.'s appts while at work, but to be actively campaigning for someone on work time is a HUGE no-no.

Watch out for that website, they are the ones who are bringing up this issue. I'm not calling them liars, just pointing out that they're not going to post information on their site that doesn't further their cause, even if it is the truth.

There were dozens of calls, all timed just before a Gableman sponsored fund-raiser for then-Gov McCallum who then turned around and appointed Gableman to his gig in Burnett.

Here's a link to the list of calls and the donations given by the recipients to the fund raiser. You may need to cut and paste to follow the link.

http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/-/im...

so, how many phone calls are we talking about, and for how long? I understand he's not supposed to make fundraising calls on state time (which is still speculation at this time), but even if he did make that mistake and made a couple 5 minute calls on the clock, who really cares? Speaking as someone who gets salary, the few occasions when you have to make a personal call at work are usually more than compensated by all the times you end up working through lunch, taking some work home, etc. I just hope this group filing the complaint actually thinks there was a larger infraction than this (regardless of whether it's true or not), because it would be awfully petty to waste the investigator's time unless we're talking about hours and hours worth of phone calls.

This information would have been more pertinent during the election.