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Democratic aide apologizes for Dahmer comment

By ASSOCIATED PRESS   Saturday, March 2, 2013 - 10:11 p.m.
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin’s Democratic Party spokesman is apologizing for comparing Republican Gov. Scott Walker with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

Graeme Zielinski made the comments in three tweets after prosecutors announced Friday they closed the John Doe investigation of Gov. Scott Walker’s aides.

In one, Zielinski tweeted: “” (at)GovWalker had better lawyers than Jeffrey Dahmer in beating the rap. Clear that he committed crimes.”

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported (http://bit.ly/Xg9uXJ) top Democrats called the tweets inappropriate.

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett’s chief of staff Patrick Curley quoted the mayor as saying the tweets were over the top. Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate apologized and called the tweets “overzealous and insensitive.”

Zielinski has deleted the tweets and apologized over Twitter to Walker and to Dahmer’s victims.




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sleeperd
Mar 4, 2013 at 6:49 p.m.
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Here's some free speech:
Liberal democrats are incapable of passing up any opportunity to show what a nest of putrid pigs they are..

Of course, that's just my opinion, pooblah..

oldvet
Mar 4, 2013 at 7:51 a.m.
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Lame comments from a lame person.

RetiredAirForce
Mar 4, 2013 at 12:49 a.m.
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Inference does have a chalky taste miss poo, better go rinse.

poobah
Mar 4, 2013 at 12:20 a.m.
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RetiredAirForce said, "If you read the words provided I did declare the spokesman's comments low yet I never declared I was offended."

And I never said you declared you were offended.

Dot #1) You had previously said, "Tolerance has proven to be a one way street in this age of political correctness..."

Dot #2) In reply to your TOLERANCE comment I said, "and you just provided further proof, RetiredAirForce, with your comments here."

Connect the dots and don't eat the chalk.

RetiredAirForce
Mar 3, 2013 at 11:52 p.m.
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Funny reading the lefts comments on guilt by association because of "closeness" to a criminal. I am waiting for the same folks to start listing all the others that should be labeled indictable because they were also close to a criminal...oh never mind, can't expect consistency from these folks.

RetiredAirForce
Mar 3, 2013 at 11:43 p.m.
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poor poo always trolling for relevance. If you read the words provided I did declare the spokesman's comments low yet I never declared I was offended...try again miss poo.

BostonBill
Mar 3, 2013 at 7:42 p.m.
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I think I am becoming immune to the constant bickering back and forth between the left and right here on the GazetteXtra blogs. The only statement that concerns me is NVgrf’s post about, “The reality is that neither had better lawyers than Ryan Braun”. Ouch! Say it ain’t so.

fearandrhetoric4dummies
Mar 3, 2013 at 6:58 p.m.
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Ninja, you are correct he is cleared, and I am over it. To say he did nothing wrong, is another case all together.

ninja11
Mar 3, 2013 at 3:21 p.m.
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The left and all the union $ spent, they looked into his past since he was born and found NOTHING. I bet there is not one of us on here that could say the same. GET OVER IT HE IS CLEARED OF ANY WRONG DOING. I feel sorry for all of you that were hoping for a different outcome. Move on .

thatwaseasy
Mar 3, 2013 at 3:12 p.m.
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What do you get when you cross Graeme Zielinski with his comment?

A typical left winger

Badgerlvr
Mar 3, 2013 at 2:32 p.m.
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Gosh donnaw, couldn't you have come up with something better? LOL!

fearandrhetoric4dummies
Mar 3, 2013 at 2:23 p.m.
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As much as I cannot stand what Zelinski commented on, I find the right wingers outrage here quite comical and predictable.

Proof? You can look at an awful lot of circumstantial evidence here and determine that Walker is completely innocent? All the people around Scott Walker were breaking the law but the man in command knew nothing about anything?? I guess that only holds true when it is a member of your tribe doesn't it Darlene?
I think a better comparison could be made to OJ Simpson, you can't "prove" he did anything. Does that mean he did nothing? What holds up in a court and what actually goes on where you are disconnected from reality.

So what wislady and the rest would have you believe that because he was not charged Scott Walker HAD NO CLUE that all of his aides were illegally campaigning for HIM on county time, right?? I don't believe that anyone could attach Walker to the veterans fund scandal as those men were just thieving pedophiles. That being said what does that say about Walker's choices of associations? So much for the party of family values. I thought Eagle Scouts held honesty in high regard? Guess that doesn't count when it comes to advancing a political agenda.

garyprimer
Mar 3, 2013 at 2:22 p.m.
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Goodness gracious,
it seems to be a one-way street!

fordfan
Mar 3, 2013 at 2:20 p.m.
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"..now get over the fact that Walker did NOTHING wrong" I do not think this is necessarily the case. There was a great deal of wrong doing very close to Governor Walker and I believe there was some evidence that he should have been aware that there was a secret email account. Not being indicted does not mean that he did NOTHING wrong – it may mean that they did not want the case with the evidence or witnesses that they had. At the very least, some of these witnesses were sleazy (waiting for the argument back on that one).

wislady
Mar 3, 2013 at 1:26 p.m.
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janesvillean
You are being ridiculous, now get over the fact that Walker did NOTHING wrong. You are not entitled to make your own "facts". If you know of something he did that was illegal, go to the authorities with your proof.

janesvillean
Mar 3, 2013 at 1:19 p.m.
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What is offensive here is that Walker has not been indicted.

wislady
Mar 3, 2013 at 12:46 p.m.
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It seems to only turn into a one way street when just the left is allowed to make crude comments with no accountability.

garyprimer
You are a prime example with your "creative spelling"

Keep it clean. Comments that are obscene, vulgar or sexually oriented will be removed. Creative spelling of such terms or implied use of such language is banned, also.

happycamper
Mar 3, 2013 at 12:31 p.m.
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All Politicians are idiots! What do you expect from the idiots aids?

poobah
Mar 3, 2013 at 12:25 p.m.
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Ten days ago, RetiredAirForce said, "There is no right not to be offended or bothered by other people’s speech or beliefs anywhere in our founding documents. Tolerance has proven to be a one way street in this age of political correctness..." [ http://gazettextra.com/news/2013/feb/21/... ]

"Tolerance has proven to be a one way street in this age of political correctness...," and you just provided further proof, RetiredAirForce, with your comments here.

Zielinski's comment about the quality of legal representation is an opinion that, when examined sans the outrage of the Dahmer case, few would take exception with. As RetiredAirForce has pointed out, "There is no right not to be offended or bothered by other people’s speech or beliefs..." The comment that people expressing concern should be pointing to is Zielinski having said, "Clear that he committed crimes."

donnaw
Mar 3, 2013 at 12:16 p.m.
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Badger....look who's talking! LOL

garyprimer
Mar 3, 2013 at 10:52 a.m.
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POSitively.

billnewbie
Mar 3, 2013 at 10:51 a.m.
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You don't suppose that Graeme Zielinski is Yada??? Nah...

Badgerlvr
Mar 3, 2013 at 10:49 a.m.
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wislady: You really are a piece of work!

wislady
Mar 3, 2013 at 10:38 a.m.
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To the Democratics represented by GZ....

Mayor Tom Barrett 414-286-2200

Senator Tammy Baldwin 800-247-5645

Rep. Mark Pocan 202-225-2906

Rep. Gwen Moore 414-297-1140

Rep. Ron Kind 888-442-8040

Sen. Chris Larson 608-266-7505

Sen. Lena C. Taylor 608-266-5810

Sen. Julie Lassa 608-266-3123

Rep. Peter Barca 608-266-5504

Rep. Sandy Pasch 608-266-7671

How about some on camera comments from the democratic elected officials, and how they feel about GZ being their official spokesperson. They always manage to get some air time from the Wis Eye any other time.

woody
Mar 3, 2013 at 10:07 a.m.
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Both parties have tweeted stupid things....think before you tweet.

wislady
Mar 3, 2013 at 9:56 a.m.
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Governor Walker summed it up the best, in reference to GZ....

"He's pretty insignificant".

HandBookHarry
Mar 3, 2013 at 9:40 a.m.
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And the liberals claim to be tolerant? Lets see how they spin this one.

meemaw
Mar 3, 2013 at 9:34 a.m.
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gjzielinski Graeme Zielinski
What do @GovWalker and Jeffrey Dahmer have in common?

gjzielinski Graeme Zielinski
.@GovWalker spent more than Jeffrey Dahmer to beat criminal charges.

gjzielinski Graeme Zielinski
.@GovWalker had better lawyers than Jeffrey Dahmer in beating the rap. Clear that he committed crimes.

Will these two statements, placed on his account, be enough to save his job as the official spokesperson of all Democrats in Wisconsin? That's up to the Democratic establishment in this state. If you talk to them, let us know what they tell you.

garyprimer
Mar 3, 2013 at 9:17 a.m.
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I think that it speaks to the intelligence of the tweeter who queries a commonality
and then points out a difference.
It looks like Republicans will have a case
for patent infringement.

RetiredAirForce
Mar 3, 2013 at 9:14 a.m.
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I will give Zielinski credit for one thing, as low as his comments did go at least he was one step above the dem Connecticut state Rep. Ernest Hewett's terrible comments.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/...

RetiredAirForce
Mar 3, 2013 at 9:09 a.m.
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Imagine that the leftest from out west completely ignores what the dem party communication spokesman for Wisconsin DID say.

Graeme Zielinski @gjzielinski What do @GovWalker and Jeffrey Dahmer have in common?

NVgrf
Mar 3, 2013 at 8:45 a.m.
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He DID NOT compare Dahmer and Walker. According to this story, he said Walker had BETTER lawyers. How is that comparing the two? The reality is that neither had better lawyers than Ryan Braun.

garyprimer
Mar 3, 2013 at 8:15 a.m.
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This is more fox than squirrel.

wislady
Mar 3, 2013 at 7:10 a.m.
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Someone is having a "squirrel" moment again.

Badgerlvr
Mar 3, 2013 at 6:35 a.m.
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wislady: donnaw: Ever heard Rep. Todd Aiken (R) say: "Legitimate Rape rarely causes Pregnancy"? Now THAT'S dumb. Nobody ever said comments by politicians (either side) were always bright.

wislady
Mar 3, 2013 at 5:41 a.m.
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So he makes a weak attempt to apologize, but why does each "news" story put the disgusting comment on paper again?

donnaw
Mar 3, 2013 at 5:37 a.m.
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Boy, when the Dems lose they sure have tantrums!

rushi
Mar 3, 2013 at 4:53 a.m.
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now that takes alot of class why would something like that even be said, sounds childess, i hope things like this dont come up in goverment, its a sad day to think how people act in public office????

SuperDave
Mar 3, 2013 at 12:11 a.m.
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Good point RAF.

RetiredAirForce
Mar 2, 2013 at 11:56 p.m.
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Who wrote the headline for this? The official Wisconsin dem party spokesperson, the voice of the dem party in this state, is considered an "aide" by the editors.....wow.

fearandrhetoric4dummies
Mar 2, 2013 at 10:17 p.m.
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Despicable comments.

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