Who's the boss?

Eye on Wisconsin is highlighting an editorial slap upside the head to Rep. John Gard from the Green Bay Press Gazette. Here's hoping that means the newspaper will be keeping an eye on Gard as his primary election for Congress unfolds since they must feel like this election is their own Groundhog Day movie.

John Gard has always had a boss mentality and he thinks he has the right to make up the rules. He feels like he is projecting a Tony Soprano boss kind of image but it is actually closer to Tony Danza from Who's The Boss. Some of you may remember that right from the start, Gard forced the state to ring up thousands of dollars in legal bills fighting about whether or not he should have been able to break campaign finance laws in his first election.

He was fined $600 by the State Elections Board for exceeding the legal limit on contributions from committees by over $7,000. He fought this generous settlement offer for a serious infraction all the way to the Supreme Court. The state of Wisconsin ended up picking up the large legal tab. Tens of thousands of dollars spent because Gard didn't want to pay a $600 fine.

Ah yes, the first budding of a modern day fiscal conservative. Conserve my dollars, spend the taxpayer dollars.

Now Gard is forcing Northeastern Wisconsin to relive his election to the Wisconsin Assembly by copying it for his run for Congress. Will his boss mentality give us a complete redo of his assembly election?

1987 - John Gard moved to area that he didn't live in from the Madison area to run for the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Wake up almost twenty years later and...

2006 - John Gard moves to an area that he didn't live in from the Madison area to run for Congress.

1987 - John Gard brings in big party people from out of the area (Madison) to run and finance his race (including many state workers).

Wake up almost twenty years later and...

2006 - John Gard brings in big party people from out of the area (Washington, D.C.) to run and finance his race.

1987 - John Gard takes in over $7,000 more from committees and conceals it for months.

Wake up almost twenty years later and...

2006- We'll see. But the crowd he is hanging with in D.C. makes me think it is likely we will see some dirty tricks again.