Senator Mark Miller vindicated

Yesterday a staffer for Senator Dan Kapanke (R-a district the dems will soon pick up) issued a letter saying that he is the one that made the copies of a campaign plan for the senate democrats. Of course, his story doesn't really match up with the one told by Republicans earlier this year. It's hard to keep your story straight when you are lying.

Senator Mark Miller (D-Monona) was telling the truth all along. Anyone that knows Miller knew he was telling the truth. Miller is a straight shooter.

The letter from the staffer takes a page out of the federal Republican play book of this year. When you are caught doing something bad, claim you have a medical or drinking problem. Now, I'm sure the staffer does have a medical problem. It's just not relevant to the story. That part was put in there for sympathy purposes. I doubt it will generate much though.

The whole letter is worth a read. The staffer tries really hard to make himself sound like he was doing some sort of good deed. I don't know this guy, but I'm willing to bet he knew exactly what he was doing. He was trying to score some points with the Majority Leader and help his team win the elections in the fall.

If he was truly concerned with illegal activity, other than his own, he would have turned the document over to the Chief Clerk's office or the Ethics Board. Instead, he chose to give it to the senator he knew to be in charge of getting Republican Senators elected in the fall.

Seth over at In Effect has some good questions on this too. The Republicans really fed the right half of the Cheddarsphere a lot of bull on this one. They used their bloggers to create a lie. What will this mean for the right down the road? Will the rightie bloggers be less willing to help in the future?