Frivolous complaint against Progressive Majority without merit

This didn't take long. The State Elections Board has issued an opinion that a group that is legally doing exactly what it said it would do hasn't broken any laws. From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel today:

Madison - The State Elections Board's staff lawyer on Tuesday found no evidence that the campaign arm of state Senate Democrats illegally conspired with private groups also working to elect as many Democrats as possible on Nov. 7.

Elections Board attorney George Dunst said in an advisory opinion that a Senate Democratic election strategy, obtained by Senate Republicans months ago, did not show that Democrats had broken any laws or rules against collusion.

State Republican Party officials had asked whether references in the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee document to Progressive Majority, an independent group also supporting Democrats, and other groups showed an illegal pattern of sharing polls or other research that was either illegal or must be disclosed on campaign-finance reports.

Progressive Majority did not break any laws. But someone did:

Also Tuesday, Roth Judd, executive director of the state Ethics Board, said he was reviewing a complaint by Sen. Mark Miller (D-Monona), whose campaign committee report was stolen from his belongings when he left them in a copy room adjacent to his Capitol office.